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Annie Louisa Norah Upchurch

Age: 20

Sex: female

Date: 2 Oct 1931

Place: 173/177 Shaftesbury Avenue, London

Annie Upchurch was strangled. She was a prostitute and was found dead in the doorway of a shop in Shaftesbury Avenue.

Frederick Herbert Charles Field was tried for her murder at the Old Bailey but acquitted. He was later convicted for the murder of Beatrice Vilna Sutton which he said he did because he wanted to know what it was like to murder someone.


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see murderpedia.org

see National Archives - MEPO 3/1669

see Portsmouth Evening News - Thursday 19 November 1931

see Western Morning News - Friday 27 November 1931

see Unsolved 1931