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Stanley Blackmoor

Age: 66

Sex: male

Date: 2 Aug 1963

Place: Summerhouse Hill, Newton Copse, Somerset

It is perhaps one of Somerset's saddest mysteries. Stanley Blackmore, a married 66-year-old taxi driver, went missing on August 2, 1963. A retired Yeovil Corporation Waterworks employee, he drove his grey and black Morris Oxford – registration number VOT 785 – from his home in North Street, Bradford Abbas, to work

In 1962, taxi driver Stanley Blackmoor was found stabbed to death in Yetminster

Who killed an 'inoffensive, placid little man' back the summer of 1963? It is perhaps one of Somerset's saddest mysteries. Stanley Blackmore, a married 66-year-old taxi driver, went missing on August 2, 1963. A retired Yeovil Corporation Waterworks employee, he drove his grey and black Morris Oxford – registration number VOT 785 – from his home in North Street, Bradford Abbas, to work. That afternoon he fell ill and had to be helped by his friends and colleagues, but told them he felt well enough to carry on working. Police have never discovered who killed Stanley Blakemore His last fare was a soldier who he dropped off at Penn Mill Station at around 5pm that day, and he was spotted alone in his car, driving along Newton Road that evening – the last time he was ever seen alive. His car was later found abandoned, parked neatly alongside a path on Summerhouse Hill, leading to Newton Copse. Inside the car were his hat, watch and coat, neatly folded, but no sign of Mr Blackmore. Police also found nine ignition keys, a Yale door key on a piece of flex and a paisley patterned scarf which his wife could not identify. For eight days the police, troops, frogmen and even a helicopter hunted for him, before his body was found in a ditch by an off-duty policeman and his wife, who were heading out for a spot of fishing. Mr Blackmore was found face down in a ditch, dead from a stab wound to his heart.