Joyce Cox

Unsolved Murders

Age: 4

Sex: female

Date: 29 Sep 1939

Place: Coryton Station, Whitchurch, Cardiff

Joyce Cox was murdered and outraged on her way home from school for lunch in Whitchurch, Cardiff.

She was last seen by her older brother and a friend at about 12.45pm on 28 September 1939 as they were going home from morning school at Whitchurch Infants School. They had last seen her in Velindre Road, in Whitchurch, Cardiff but when they had got to Joyce Cox's aunts she was not with them. Several school children said that they had seen her in a lane known as 'Lucky Lane', and a man from Heoldon Post Office said that he also saw her playing in the lane. However, a boy later said that he saw her in the evening with a man.

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

see news.bbc.co.uk

see Wales Online

see Daly Mail

see Mirror

see National Archives - MEPO 3/676 (closed 2024 - Fingerprints re tobacco pouch: alleged murder of Joyce Cox at Cardiff)

see BBC

see Evening Despatch - Saturday 30 September 1939

see Western Mail - Wednesday 11 October 1939

see Sunday Mirror - Sunday 01 October 1939

see Western Mail - Friday 29 September 1939

see Londonderry Sentinel - Tuesday 31 October 1939