Vera Kathleen Crowther

Unsolved Murders

Age: 40

Sex: female

Date: 18 Mar 1947

Place: Friar Street, Reading, Berkshire

Vera Kathleen Crowther was found dead at her veterinary surgery in Friar Street, Reading.

She had drowned in her own blood after bleeding inwardly from an injury to her nose whilst in a state of deep unconsciousness. The doctor said that she had an injury to the bridge of her nose and that the congested state of her lungs showed that she had died from asphyxiation.

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see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Belfast Telegraph - Tuesday 18 March 1947

see Gloucester Citizen - Tuesday 18 March 1947

see Western Morning News - Wednesday 19 March 1947

see Western Morning News - Thursday 20 March 1947

see Western Times - Friday 21 March 1947

see Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 21 March 1947

see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 18 March 1947

see Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 19 March 1947

see Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Wednesday 19 March 1947

see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 18 March 1947

see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 18 March 1947

see Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 19 March 1947

see Unsolved 1947