Muriel Joan Drinkwater

Unsolved Murders

Age: 12

Sex: female

Date: 27 Jun 1946

Place: Penllergaer, Swansea, Glamorgan

Muriel Joan Drinkwater was raped in Penllergaer Woods, beaten about the head with a blunt instrument and then shot with a World War I Colt 45 on 27 June 1946.

Her murder became known as the Little Red Riding Hood murder.

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

see www.walesonline.co.uk

see National Archives - MEPO 3/2731

see Western Morning News - Monday 08 July 1946

see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Saturday 06 July 1946

see Londonderry Sentinel - Saturday 02 November 1946

see Gloucester Citizen - Saturday 29 June 1946

see Western Mail - Monday 22 July 1946

see Liverpool Echo - Saturday 29 June 1946

see Wales Online

see The Times

see Unsolved Casebook

see Daily Mail

see Morbidology

see The True Crime Files

see BBC

see Wikipedia

see Unsolved 1946