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Serial killer Rose West to be quizzed by cops over 13 more missing women

POLICE will quiz serial killer Rose West about 13 more missing women.

Many visited the home where Rose and husband Fred murdered at least nine including their daughter.

Police will quiz Rose West about 13 more missing women
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Police will quiz Rose West about 13 more missing womenCredit: Shutterstock
Cops are currently digging up a cafe where her serial killer husband was a customer
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Cops are currently digging up a cafe where her serial killer husband was a customerCredit: Alamy
They're searching for Mary Bastholm, who went missing in 1968 and worked at the Gloucester cafe
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They're searching for Mary Bastholm, who went missing in 1968 and worked at the Gloucester cafeCredit: PA

Four are linked to Glasgow where he worked as an ice cream salesman in the 1960s.

It comes as cops searching for Mary Bastholm, 15 — missing since 1968 — continue to dig at a Gloucester café where Fred was a customer.

Before he hanged himself in prison in 1995 West, 53, said he had been involved in up to 18 other murders.

Rose, 67, is serving life for ten murders.

Her solicitor, Leo Goatley, said: “I’d hope she is questioned but don’t think it’ll get anywhere unless there’s been some major shift in her mindset. She has put up a wall.”

Margaret McAvoy and three others vanished in Glasgow between 1963 and 1966.

Many of the missing women visited Fred and Rose West's home
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Many of the missing women visited Fred and Rose West's homeCredit: Enterprise
Before his death, West said he had been involved in up to 18 other murders
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Before his death, West said he had been involved in up to 18 other murdersCredit: PA

New cases linked to the West’s home in Cromwell Street, Gloucester, include Donna Lynn Moore, aged 13 or 14, who went missing in 1973, and Maria Ann, a blonde in her 20s, who vanished in 1991.

Missing People UK said: “For families, high-profile moments can trigger emotions from anxiety and anger to hopes of an answer to an ambiguous loss — often called the worst of all losses.”

Gloucestershire Police said they were unable to comment.

Cops used a ground penetrating radar to find a void in the basement of the cafe
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Cops used a ground penetrating radar to find a void in the basement of the cafeCredit: The Sun
They drilled the area so police dogs could get an indication of human remains
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They drilled the area so police dogs could get an indication of human remainsCredit: ANDREW LLOYD
Rose West: Making a Monster examines the twisted childhood of the serial killer
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