Age: 36
Sex: female
Date: 25 Aug 1929
Place: Sedbergh Park, Cow Pastures Lane, Ilkley
Mary Learoyd was strangled with a stocking on a vacant plot of land in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. She was found almost naked and her clothes strewn about.
She had gone out on the Saturday night, 24 August 1929 to go to the cinema but didn't arrive and was not seen alive again.
see "Woman Murdered At Ilkley." Times [London, England] 26 Aug. 1929: 14. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 3 Mar. 2013.
see Nottingham Evening Post - Thursday 29 August 1929
see Belfast News-Letter - Monday 26 August 1929
see Portsmouth Evening News - Monday 26 August 1929
see Sheffield Independent - Tuesday 27 August 1929 - includes photo of Mary Learoyd
see Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 31 December 1929
see Dundee Courier - Friday 30 August 1929
see Unsolved 1929
