Age: 17
Sex: female
Date: 13 Oct 1945
Place: Sunny Bank Esate, Marlow
Beatrice Smith died after she was taken home by a 23-year-old US Corporal after having drinks.
He was tried for her murder by an American court-marshal in the chapel of Wycombe Abbey, but after an hour's deliberation in camera and a secret ballot, he was found not guilty and discharged.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Gloucestershire Echo - Saturday 13 October 1945
see The People - Sunday 14 October 1945
see Birmingham Mail - Thursday 11 October 1945
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Thursday 11 October 1945
see Unsolved 1945
