Ethel Wakefield

Age: 31

Sex: female

Date: 27 Nov 1940

Place: 29 Whitfield Road, Norton-in-the-Moors, Stoke-on-Trent

Ethel Wakefield was found dead in her bed, having bled to death.

A sergeant-major in the Royal Corps of Signals was tried for her murder but acquitted.

*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Wednesday 27 November 1940

see Staffordshire Advertiser - Saturday 26 October 1940

see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 27 November 1940

see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Tuesday 22 October 1940

see Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 22 October 1940

see Belfast News-Letter - Wednesday 23 October 1940

see Unsolved 1940