Joan Maud Murray

Joan Maud Murray was found dead from an apparent coal gas poisoning suicide at her home at 72 Gauntley Street in Nottingham on 16 September 1953. However, the police thought that there were discrepancies in certain statements although no one was charged with her murder.

Her husband said, 'I know the police think I murdered her, but they say they can't prove it'. He said that although he told the inquest that he had found Joan Murray lying on her back in the kitchen clad only in her pyjamas, he said that it had been suggested that he had murdered her upstairs. He said that it was claimed that he was supposed to have carried her down the stairs and laid her on the kitchen floor at the side of the gas cooker where he later reported finding her on his return home from an afternoon visit to the cinema.