Age: 29
Sex: female
Date: 21 Aug 1928
Place: Butterfly Reservoir, Codnor
Elsie May Mellors was found dead in the Butterfly Reservoir.
She had gone out on the Saturday night presumably to go to the cinema at Ripley. When she didn't return her parents thought she had gone instead to visit relatives in Clay Cross. Her body was found in the reservoir on the Sunday morning.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Derby Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 21 August 1928
see Nottingham Journal - Wednesday 22 August 1928
see Sheffield Independent - Tuesday 21 August 1928
see Unsolved 1928
