Age: 29
Sex: male
Date: 31 Mar 1996
Place: A10, Milton, Cambridgeshire
Russell Marsom was found dead partially clothed in a ditch off the A10 on 31 March 1996.
A man who was questioned at the time over his death was later arrested on suspicion of his murder in 2007, but no charges were made.
Russell Marsom had been a hairdresser from Heacham in Norfolk and ran his own business in Hunstanton.
Russell Marsom was openly gay and the police appealed for members of the LGBTQ+ community that might know anything about his murder to come forward.
He had gone out on the night of 30 March 1996 to go to a nightclub and was found in the ditch in Milton, near Cambridge the following day by a dog walker.
He was said to have regularly gone to Cambridge for the LGBTQ+ nightlife.
The police also appealed for anyone that had been in the Jesus Green and surrounding Cambridge city areas to come forward as well as anyone that had been to the Dot Cotton Club between 10pm on 30 March 1996 and 10am the following day.
Additionally they appealed for anyone that had been driving along the A10 at Milton in either direction between 9.45pm on the Saturday and 1am on the Sunday to come forward.
His murder was initially connected to the occult because there had been a full moon on the night that he was murdered. It was said that his body was arranged after his death and that he used to dabble in the occult himself.
His post-mortem showed that he drowned. The police said that although the post-mortem stated that he drowned, they didn't know how he came to be in the ditch.
In their 2021 appeal the police said:
