Murder of Joanna Parrish

Joanna "Jo" Parrish (30 July 1969 – 17 May 1990) was a 20-year-old language student from Newnham on Severn, Gloucestershire, England, who was murdered in the Burgundy region of France while working at a local school as part of her degree course in 1990. Parrish, an undergraduate of Leeds University who was studying French, disappeared after placing an advertisement in a local Burgundy newspaper offering private English lessons, and arranging to meet a man who it is believed contacted her with details of a potential student. Her naked body was found in the Yonne River at Auxerre on 17 May 1990. She had been raped, beaten and strangled. The crime remains unsolved to the present day.

Murder of Joanna Parrish

Joanna "Jo" Parrish (30 July 1969 – 17 May 1990) was a 20-year-old language student from Newnham on Severn, Gloucestershire, England, who was murdered in the Burgundy region of France while working at a local school as part of her degree course in 1990. Parrish, an undergraduate of Leeds University who was studying French, disappeared after placing an advertisement in a local Burgundy newspaper offering private English lessons, and arranging to meet a man who it is believed contacted her with details of a potential student. Her naked body was found in the Yonne River at Auxerre on 17 May 1990. She had been raped, beaten and strangled. The crime remains unsolved to the present day.