Age: 26
Sex: female
Date: 9 Aug 1947
Place: Little Charlotte Street, Portsmouth, Hampshire
Isabel Mary Wardle was found raped and strangled on a bomb site in Little Charlotte Street, Portsmouth on the morning of 9 August 1947.
Her body was found at about 8.45am on the Saturday morning by the son of the landlord of Cox's Hotel which overlooked the site when he opened the window of their living room in the morning. The son said that neither he nor of father heard any suspicious noises in the night.
see Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Saturday 17 June 1950
see The People - Sunday 21 September 1947
see Hampshire Telegraph - Friday 15 August 1947
see Western Morning News - Thursday 16 October 1947
see Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Tuesday 12 August 1947
see Daily Mirror - Tuesday 12 August 1947
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 12 August 1947
see West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 14 August 1947
see Dundee Courier - Tuesday 12 August 1947
see Western Daily Press - Tuesday 12 August 1947
see Unsolved 1947
