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Frederick Walter Jeffs

Age: 37

Sex: male

Date: 19 Apr 1957

Place: Park Lane, Handsworth

Frederick Walter Jeffs was found half-buried in wooded wasteland near a 'Lover's Lane' at Handsworth between West Bromwich and Birmingham on the night of Good Friday 19 April 1957.

His A30 van had been found earlier that day abandoned in Brantley Road, Witton, Birmingham, six miles away from where his body was found. The van had blood on the bonnet, inside, on one headlamp, on the windscreen and roof. Frederick Jeffs's wallet was found in the back of his van but it was empty. It was noted that there was no damage to Frederick Jeffs's van to suggest that it had been in an accident.

*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see find.galegroup.com

see QLHS

see Birmingham Mail

see True Crime Library

see Creative Black Country

see Birmingham History Forum

see Getty Images

see Graeme Rose Blog

see Northampton Arts

see "Missing Shopkeeper's Body Found." Times [London, England] 20 Apr. 1957: 6. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 4 Mar. 2013.

see Western Mail - Saturday 20 April 1957

see Daily Mirror - Friday 17 May 1957

see Torbay Express and South Devon Echo - Thursday 25 April 1957

see Northern Whig - Monday 22 April 1957

see Northants Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 23 April 1957

see Belfast Telegraph - Friday 24 May 1957

see Lancashire Evening Post - Thursday 20 June 1957

see Northants Evening Telegraph - Saturday 20 April 1957

see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Tuesday 23 April 1957

see Shields Daily News - Friday 26 April 1957

see Shields Daily News - Thursday 20 June 1957

see Shields Daily News - Monday 22 April 1957

see Lancashire Evening Post - Saturday 20 April 1957

see Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 11 September 1957

see Belfast Telegraph - Saturday 20 April 1957

see Shields Daily News - Wednesday 24 April 1957

see Shields Daily News - Saturday 27 April 1957

see Halifax Evening Courier - Friday 26 April 1957

see Belfast Telegraph - Saturday 27 April 1957

see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Wednesday 24 April 1957

see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Monday 29 April 1957

see Shields Daily News - Saturday 25 May 1957

see Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 10 September 1957

see Northern Whig - Saturday 20 April 1957

see Lancashire Evening Post - Tuesday 23 April 1957

see Unsolved 1957