Madge Winifred Cleife

Age: 15

Sex: female

Date: 30 Aug 1931

Place: Salterns, Portsmouth

Madge Cleife was found dead in a marsh near a golf course at 1pm on the Saturday 29 August 1931.

Her boyfriend, an 18-year old unemployed photographer was tried but acquitted of her murder.

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

see "Portsmouth Girl's Death." Times [London, England] 4 Dec. 1931: 11. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 3 Mar. 2013.

see Lincolnshire Echo - Wednesday 02 September 1931

see Western Morning News - Thursday 03 September 1931

see Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 02 December 1931

see Portsmouth Evening News - Wednesday 30 December 1931

see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Thursday 03 December 1931

see Leeds Mercury - Tuesday 01 December 1931

see Portsmouth Evening News - Monday 30 November 1931 (inclues picture of Madge Cleife)

see Unsolved 1931