Age: 24
Sex: female
Date: 1 Nov 1953
Place: Hilltop Avenue, South Benfleet, Essex
Audrey Olive was found in a tin trunk with a stocking tied round her neck at a property in Hilltop Avenue, South Benfleet, Essex, in November 1953.
Her 30-year-old army sergeant husband was tried for her murder and manslaughter at the Chelmsford (Essex) Assizes in February 1954 but acquitted. The jury took 2 hours 25 minutes to reach their verdict.
see discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
see see National Archives - ASSI 90/63, ASSI 36/180
see Portsmouth Evening News - Friday 26 February 1954
see Dundee Courier - Friday 26 February 1954
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Thursday 25 February 1954
see Lancashire Evening Post - Wednesday 24 February 1954
see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Thursday 25 February 1954
see Daily Mirror - Wednesday 24 February 1954
see Unsolved 1953
