Age: 56
Sex: male
Date: 25 Oct 1986
Place: Mirfield Memorial Park, Wakefield
William Smith was killed whilst walking along an unlit pathway by Mirfield Memorial Park and the Calder and Hebble Canal at around 10.30pm on 25 October 1986.
His body was later found in the canal at the foot of an embankment in some shallow water at 2am, 200 yards from his home in Parkfield Crescent, Mirfield.
see www.westyorkshire.police.uk
see Examiner
see Halifax Evening Courier - Tuesday 28 October 1986
see Halifax Evening Courier - Wednesday 29 October 1986
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Monday 27 October 1986
see Derby Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 05 August 1986
see Wolverhampton Express and Star - Monday 27 October 1986
see Newcastle Journal - Monday 27 October 1986
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Monday 27 October 1986
see Halifax Evening Courier - Thursday 30 October 1986
see Unsolved 1986