Beenham murders

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The Beenham murders were the murders of a teenage girl and two 9-year-old girls in the Berkshire village of Beenham in 1966 and 1967. Local man David Burgess was found guilty of two murders in 1967—for which two life sentences were handed down—and was given a 27-year sentence for the third in 2012 after new forensic evidence brought a conviction.