UNSOLVED MURDERS
NUMBER IN ENGLAND GIRL FOUND STRANGLED (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, July 8. While Scotland Yard and the metropolitan and provincial police forces remain 20,000 men under strength, they face a record number of 21 unsolved murders and a post-war crime wave far in excess of anything experienced since the First World War, says the Daily Mail. Two more major mysteries were added to the list to-day with the finding of a strangled 11-year-old girl in Kent and half-burned human remains in Wales. Official quarters are greatly perturbed over the failure of repeated appeals and inducements to attract recruits to the police forces.
After a night-and-day search, the body of a 21-year-old ex-Wren, Doreen Margaret Marshall, was found 100 yards from the fashionable Branksome Towers Hotel, Bournemouth. She was still dressed in the black dinner gown which she was wearing when she disappeared on the night of July 3.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26200, 10 July 1946, Page 5
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