Sheila Miller

Sheila Miller was found dead at her flat on 15 February 1983.

However, her inquest failed to find a cause of death and an open verdict was returned. 

She had lived at 87 Eastwick Row in Hemel Hemstead.

Sheila Miller had been born in India.

She was found by a Dacorum Housing official. The official had called at her flat on 14 February 1983 because of a possible rent arrears problem. He said:

It was noted that unknown to him Sheila Miller's body, dressed only in a purple jumper and a long cream housecoat, lay just a few feet away at the time.

When the housing official called again at the flat the following day he found that the front door had been smashed in, and his department immediately called the police. 

When the police arrived they found that the flat was tidy apart from a pile of letters on the door mat, and soon after found Sheila Miller's body. 

The constable that went to her flat said that he recognised her as she had been to the police station numerous times to make complaints about her neighbours. He said that he had also been to the flat on previous occasions when neighbours had complained about her playing loud music late at night. 

A man that lived at 84, an opposite flat said:

He said that the last timie he remembered seeing her was just before Christmas. He said:

The inquest was told that a cleaning woman that had worked at the flats had been so frightened by Sheila Miller that she was transferred to another job.

The man that lived opposite said that he didn't get on well with Sheila Miller, adding that she had called the police about him no less than 50 times for trivial things. He added:

He admitted that it had been him that had forced the door open to her flat, adding that he beleived an important letter that he had been expecting had been delivered to her flat accidentally. He said:

The pathologist said that the flats freezing temperatures had mummified the body, but tat it was impossible to give a cause of death because all the organs were undergoing  advanced decomposition. 

He added that in his opnion that Sheila Miller had been dead a matter of weeks.