Edith Ellen Waines

Unsolved Murders

Age: 31

Sex: female

Date: 10 Dec 1948

Place: Mint Street, Southwark, SE1

Edith Ellen Waines was murdered in Mint Street, Southwark, SE1 in the early hours of 10 December 1948.

She was found just after midnight on a bombed site. Her black knitted handbag with an orange border on the flap containing money was found near her body.

*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk

see National Archives - MEPO 3/3033

see Western Morning News - Monday 13 December 1948

see The People - Sunday 19 December 1948

see Belfast Telegraph - Saturday 11 December 1948

see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Monday 13 December 1948

see Gloucester Citizen - Saturday 11 December 1948

see Liverpool Echo - Saturday 11 December 1948

see Daily Herald - Monday 13 December 1948

see Nottingham Evening Post - Saturday 11 December 1948

see Unsolved 1948