The war was almost over, and the abandoned air raid shelters had fallen into disrepair. In early 1945, however, prostitutes found them useful, and it was in such a shelter in Bethnal Green Road, London, that police discovered on Monday, February 5th, the body of Eileen Cook, 44, known locally as Irish Molly. She had
They called 22-year-old Florence Weatherall the prettiest woman in Linby, in Nottinghamshire. She was married and had just given birth to twins when she set out on Friday, February 2nd, 1951, to go shopping in Mansfield, leaving the babies with her mother. Her naked body was found in a ditch in Bestwood three weeks later,
Gloucester police are holding a single unidentified fingerprint taken from the house in Roman Road, Cheltenham Spa, where Granny Aris, as she was known locally, was murdered by an intruder. The print has been compared with 40,000 other prints, so far to no avail. The case has gone cold for the moment, but if the
Robbery was the motive too for the murder of shopkeeper Mrs. Amy Browell, a 71-year-old widow at her general store in Newcastle, Northumberland, city centre on the night of Thursday, February 26th, 1959. The premises had been ransacked and the till emptied. Customers remembered a young man who had been acting suspiciously that afternoon, but
The rape of Vera Hilda Hoad, 11, was so violent before she was strangled that police believe her attackers penis may have been damaged in the assault. A hundred and fifty soldiers at a barracks near the crime scene, a field near a mental hospital at Chichester, Sussex, were accordingly paraded, and inspected without success.
Who was the stranger who boarded an Aylesbury to Baker Street, London, train at Wembley Park on Wednesday, February 25th, 1942? He was aged about 30, of medium height, wearing a light-coloured coat, and he was almost certainly the killer of Mrs. Beatrice Meadmore, 63, a passenger on the train. She was savagely beaten around
Will you just go down to Mrs. Johnsons shop with a message? Mrs. Jean Carr asked her 11-year-old daughter Nellie. It was the worst request of her life. Nellie, who lived with her mother and stepfather in Byrne Avenue, Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, had fair hair, rosy cheeks, very blue eyes and was described by one
He couldnt speak. He couldnt hear. He could neither read nor write. If that wasnt enough, George Roberts, 46, was in deep trouble. He was on a murder charge. His misfortunes began when on the foggy night of Saturday, January 10th, 1953, screams were heard coming from the whitewashed cottage of Miss Elizabeth Thomas, in
What would you do if you came upon a murder scene? On Wednesday, February 8th, 1939, Albert Gray, a butcher, did just that. He was delivering meat to the victim, a customer, and when he found the door ajar he went in and put the order on the table. Then, ignoring the state of total
The murderer of five-year-old Eileen Lockhart crept up behind her, put his left hand over her nose and mouth to stop her screaming, and raped her. Then he strangled her with his right hand. That was on Sunday, February 8th, 1948. Four days later Eileens body was found in a bombed-out building in Finsbury, north