Jean Jordan was murdered in the Greater Manchester Police area on the 1st October 1977. Her body was found on a disused allotment in Chorlton-cum-Hardy on the 10th October, nine days after her death.

An unusual and curious feature of this case was that there was evidence that the killer had returned to the scene some eight days after the murder, stripped the body and inflicted further injuries including an attempt to decapitate it.