Age: 23
Sex: female
Date: 28 Jun 1947
Place: Hanger Lane, Ealing, London
Inga Petersen died nine days after being beaten up during a burglary.
It was said that two men had called at the house where she lived and worked as a maid on 18 June 1947 and that they had beaten her on the head, gagged her, and then dragged her into the kitchen. It was said then that the thieves shut the kitchen windows, blocked the ventilator and then turned on five gas taps.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see The People - Sunday 29 June 1947
see Daily Mirror - Friday 20 June 1947
see Daily Mirror - Thursday 19 June 1947
see Unsolved 1947