Age: 32
Sex: female
Date: 21 Jan 1961
Place: Wesley Tennis Club, Bratt Street, West Bromwich, Staffordshire
Dorothy Mills was murdered at the Wesley Tennis Club, West Bromwich, Staffordshire on 21 January 1961.
She was found in the grounds of the tennis club off Bratt Street, with her head battered in. The police described the murder weapon, which was not found, as 'a brutish instrument, possibly a hammer or some form of tool'.
see discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
see National Archives - DPP 2/3289, MEPO 2/11520, MEPO 2/11521, MEPO 2/11522, MEPO 2/11523, MEPO 2/11524, MEPO 2/11525, MEPO 2/11526
see Daily Mirror - Friday 14 July 1961
see Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 24 January 1961
see Daily Mirror - Wednesday 19 April 1961
see Birmingham Daily Post - Wednesday 12 July 1961
see Daily Herald - Wednesday 19 April
see Birmingham Daily Post - Thursday 20 April 1961
see Daily Herald - Thursday 26 January 1961
see Daily Mirror - Wednesday 25 January 1961
see Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 31 January 1961
see Belfast Telegraph - Tuesday 25 April 1961
see Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 28 February 1961
see Unsolved 1961
