Age: 83
Sex: female
Date: 17 Apr 1958
Place: The Mill House, Writtle Road, Writtle, Chelmsford
Susan Southgate was found murdered at her home, The Mill House in Writtle on 17 April 1958.
She was found in the early hours of 18 April 1958 gagged and bound to a chair with insulating tape and electric flex and had died from asphyxia and the police said that they thought that she had suffocated after having been tied up. She had had a duster stuffed in her mouth which was then secured with black insulation tape. The chair itself, an old family heirloom and Susan Southgate's favourite chair, was found halfway up the stairs where it was thought her killers had carried her up whilst tied up in it and then left her after the chair became jammed in a turn.
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see National Archives - HO 332/16 - STA 502/3/33, MEPO 2/9827
see Shields Daily News - Friday 01 August 1958
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Thursday 24 April 1958
see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Friday 18 April 1958
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Tuesday 22 April 1958
see Western Mail - Monday 21 April 1958
see Daily Herald - Thursday 08 May 1958
see Liverpool Echo - Saturday 19 April 1958
see Leicester Evening Mail - Friday 18 April 1958
see Western Mail - Thursday 16 October 1958
see Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 23 April 1958
see Daily Herald - Monday 21 April 1958
see Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 22 April 1958
see Manchester Evening News - Thursday 24 April 1958
see Halifax Evening Courier - Tuesday 22 April 1958
see Daily Herald - Saturday 19 April 1958
see Manchester Evening News - Monday 21 April 1958
see Weekly Dispatch (London) - Sunday 20 April 1958
see Daily Herald - Tuesday 22 April 1958
see Manchester Evening News - Friday 18 July 1958
see Daily Herald - Wednesday 05 November 1958
see Shields Daily News - Wednesday 23 April 1958
see Shields Daily News - Thursday 24 April 1958
see Belfast Telegraph - Friday 18 April 1958
see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Monday 21 April 1958
see Unsolved 1958
