Stephen Varley

Age: 52

Sex: male

Date: 19 Dec 1948

Place: Cotton Mill Lane, St Albans, Hertfordshire

Stephen Varley was found dead on an allotment footpath near a ruined nunnery in Cotton Mill Lane, St Albans on Sunday 19 December 1948.

He had been beaten and throttled and left with his head and face badly battered.

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

see National Archives - MEPO 3/3034

see Dundee Courier - Monday 20 December 1948

see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Thursday 23 December 1948

see Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 29 December 1948

see Gloucester Citizen - Tuesday 21 December 1948

see Dundee Courier - Saturday 25 December 1948

see Gloucestershire Echo - Saturday 08 January 1949

see Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 22 December 1948

see Lincolnshire Echo - Wednesday 22 December 1948

see Shields Daily News - Friday 14 January 1949

see Daily Herald - Thursday 23 December 1948

see Unsolved 1948