# The SENSELESS Murder of Joanna Yeates : Detectives Thought a PIZZA BOX Could Solve Crime

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Podcast: [Mysteries and Histories](https://stenobird.com/podcast/mysteries-and-histories-1576928)
Published: 2026-08-24T11:00:01+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/georgiamariexo/episodes/The-SENSELESS-Murder-of-Joanna-Yeates--Detectives-Thought-a-PIZZA-BOX-Could-Solve-Crime-e3nqg0s
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In December 2010, 25-year-old landscape architect Joanna Yeates vanished after a night out in Clifton, Bristol. CCTV showed her buying a Tesco pizza on the way home but when detectives searched her flat, the pizza, its wrapping, and even the box were gone. Her body was found on Christmas Day. The case initially fixated on her landlord, Christopher Jefferies, who was later cleared and formally acknowledged by police as completely innocent. The real killer was Yeates’s next-door neighbour, Dutch engineer Vincent Tabak. Forensic evidence linked him to Joanna’s body, and prosecutors said he strangled her shortly after she arrived home before concealing and disposing of her body. He was convicted of murder in 2011 and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 20 years.

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