Norma Jordan

Norma Jordan was beaten to death in the bedroom of her fifth floor flat in Pioneer House on Farnborough Road in Castle Vale on 3 July 1991.

The police said that they thought she had been attacked by a former lover. They said:

Her body was found slumped on the floor of her bedroom. however, it was thought that she had died earlier in June 1991 and had lain there undiscovered for about a week.

She was found when her step-mother and sister called and found the front door open.

It was said that she had been severely beaten, having received several blows to her head, and that plant pots and a hallstand had been knocked over, indicating that Norma Jordan had fought for her life.

It was initially thought she had been murdered by an intruder, however, it was later determined that the gas board had forced an entry a month earlier because they had suspected a a leak and that the damaged lock was not repaired or replaced.

It was noted that earlier in the year Norma Jordan had been on an Age Concern course in Birmingham city centre and had then worked for a short time at an old folk's home in Erdington.

The police said that they were checking men she might have met on the course as well as at pubs in Castle Vale.

It was also noted that detectives went to the Isle of Wight where Norma Jordan lived in 1987, Portsmouth where she knew a serviceman and Germany where she had been writing to a soldier, following leads and that a total of 128 people were interviewed, including every resident in Pioneer House, who were found and questioned.

The police also carried out investigations in Yardley where Norma Jordan had previously lived in Marston Green with her mother.

Norma Jordan had been blonde and had been divorced.

It was later said that the inquiry into her murder was hampered by the fact that her body was not found for a week after her death. When the police scaled down their operation, they said:

Pioneer House was later demolished in 1999.