Elsie May Taylor

Unsolved Murders

Age: 47

Sex: female

Date: 15 Apr 1957

Place: 35 Longford Road, Bridgetown, Cannock, Staffordshire

Elsie May Taylor was found strangled on her kitchen floor at her home in Longford Road, Bridgetown, Cannock on 15 April 1957.

Her inquest, which concluded on Monday 20 May 1957, returned a verdict of murder by some person or persons unknown. When the Coroner summed up he said, 'I advise you in this case there is no evidence that implicates any single person in the killing of Mrs Taylor'.

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

see discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk

see National Archives - HO 332/16 - STA 502/3/33

see "News in Brief." Times [London, England] 15 June 1957: 10. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 29 May 2016.

see Halifax Evening Courier - Tuesday 21 May 1957

see Birmingham Daily Post - Thursday 18 April 1957

see Birmingham Daily Post - Monday 29 April 1957

see Western Mail - Tuesday 21 May 1957

see Birmingham Daily Post - Wednesday 17 April 1957

see Birmingham Daily Post - Saturday 15 June 1957

see Birmingham Daily Post - Wednesday 22 May 1957

see Torbay Express and South Devon Echo - Wednesday 17 April 1957

see Lancashire Evening Post - Monday 20 May 1957

see Birmingham Daily Post - Saturday 15 June 1957

see Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 29 May 1957

see Unsolved 1957