Age: 45
Sex: female
Date: 24 Apr 1954
Place: River Avon, Stratford-upon-Avon
Olive May Gardiner Bennett was found dead in the River Avon at Stratford near Holy Trinity Church on Saturday 25 April 1954.
She had been strangled and it was thought that her body had been weighed down with a cemetery tombstone which was found in the river when it was dragged by the police. However, it was also suggested that her death might have been an accident.
see Birmingham Daily Post - Wednesday 28 April 1954
see Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 13 July 1954
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Friday 30 April 1954
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 04 May 1954
see Western Mail - Wednesday 05 May 1954
see Birmingham Daily Post - Wednesday 19 May 1954
see Daily Herald - Wednesday 28 April 1954
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Wednesday 28 April 1954
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Saturday 01 May 1954
see Wolfie Wiseguy
see Unsolved 1954
