Age: 14
Sex: female
Date: 18 Apr 1945
Place: Eggbuckland, Plymouth
Constance Elizabeth Williams was found strangled on the roadside near her home at 1 Orchard Villas, Eggbuckland in Plymouth on 18 April 1945.
Her body was found by a postman van driver on his rounds on a grass verge by a military road to Fort Austin about 700 yards from her home. The Post Office van driver said that his attention was attracted to something red on the grass verge and when he stopped to look, he saw that it was the body of a girl and summoned an ambulance and the police.
see www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
see National Archives - MEPO 3/2293
see Evening Despatch - Thursday 19 April 1945
see Western Morning News - Saturday 21 July 1945
see Evening Despatch - Friday 20 April 1945
see Western Morning News - Tuesday 24 April 1945
see Manchester Evening News - Monday 23 April 1945
see Western Morning News - Thursday 26 April 1945
see Daily Mirror - Saturday 21 April 1945
see Western Morning News - Friday 20 July 1945
see Western Daily Press - Friday 20 April
see Western Morning News - Friday 27 April 1945
see Daily Mirror - Saturday 21 July 1945
see Birmingham Mail - Friday 20 April 1945
see Nottingham Evening Post - Thursday 19 April 1945
see Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 27 July 1945
see Western Daily Press - Thursday 26 April 1945
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Friday 20 April 1945
see Gloucester Citizen - Monday 23 April 1945
see Western Morning News - Monday 30 April 1945
see Daily Mirror - Monday 23 April 1945
see Unsolved 1945
