Age: 12
Sex: female
Date: 20 Jan 1961
Place: Hadleigh Heath, Polstead, Suffolk
Linda Smith was found dead in a ditch behind a hedge by a clover field in Hadleigh Heath, Polstead, Suffolk 18½ miles from the village she lived in.
She had been strangled with her school scarf. When she was found her coat had been laid over her body with its hood over her head.
see National Archives - DPP 2/3262
see BBC
see "Linda Smith's Body Found In Ditch." Times [London, England] 21 Jan. 1961: 6. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 4 Mar. 2013.
see "Linda Smith 'Strangled By Person Unknown'." Times [London, England] 22 June 1961: 6. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 4 Mar. 2013.
see Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 07 June 1961
see Belfast Telegraph - Thursday 26 January 1961
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Wednesday 21 June 1961
see Daily Mirror - Wednesday 21 June 1961
see Diss Express - Friday 20 January 1961
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Saturday 21 January 1961
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 24 January 1961
see Birmingham Daily Post - Saturday 21 January 1961
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 24 January 1961
see Birmingham Daily Post - Thursday 22 June 1961
see Birmingham Daily Post - Friday 27 January 1961
see Birmingham Daily Post - Friday 10 March 1961
see Birmingham Daily Post - Friday 27 January 1961
see Sunday Mirror - Sunday 22 January 1961
see Birmingham Daily Post - Wednesday 21 June 1961
see Birmingham Daily Post - Saturday 17 June 1961
see Birmingham Daily Post - Thursday 22 June 1961
see Unsolved 1961
