Ruth Schmerler

Unsolved Murders

Age: 20

Sex: female

Date: 27 Sep 1944

Place: Counslow, Cheadle

Ruth Schmerler was found stabbed to death in a gravel pit in Counslow, Cheadle on 27 September 1944 after having gone missing whilst hitching rides north from Bromsgrove and Birmingham for Manchester on 21 September 1944.

She had three stab wounds which were thought to have been inflicted with a bayonet.

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

see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Staffordshire Sentinel - Thursday 26 October 1944

see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Monday 02 October 1944

see Birmingham Daily Post - Monday 02 October 1944

see Daily Mirror - Tuesday 21 November 1944

see Newcastle Evening Chronicle - Saturday 14 October 1944

see Staffordshire Sentinel - Tuesday 10 October 1944

see Staffordshire Sentinel - Saturday 30 September 1944

see Staffordshire Sentinel - Monday 16 October 1944

see Manchester Evening News - Thursday 05 October 1944

see Manchester Evening News - Saturday 07 October 1944

see Daily Herald - Tuesday 03 October 1944

see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Wednesday 04 October 1944

see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Tuesday 03 October 1944

see Unsolved 1944