Age: 22
Sex: female
Date: 23 Feb 1951
Place: Moor Road, Bestwood, Nottinghamshire
Florence Weatherall was found in a ditch behind a hedge partially clothed on Friday 23 February 1951 in Moor Lane, Bestwood.
She had gone missing from her wooden chalet home in Newstead Abbey Gate in Linby, Nottinghamshire, three weeks earlier on 2 February 1951 at about 4pm, two days after she had been released from hospital after giving birth to twins. She had gone out to go shopping in Mansfield. The place where she was found was described as being in a piece of swampy undergrowth at the side of a lonely lane.
see Northampton Post
see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Thursday 07 June 1951
see Liverpool Echo - Saturday 07 February 1953
see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Monday 26 February 1951
see Daily Mirror - Friday 01 June 1951
see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Wednesday 28 February 1951
see Portsmouth Evening News - Friday 23 February 1951
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Wednesday 07 March 1951
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Friday 23 February 1951
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Saturday 03 March 1951
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 28 February 1951
see Lancashire Evening Post - Saturday 17 January 1953
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Thursday 22 March 1951
see Unsolved 1951