she was finally found at 10 . 35am the next day by pc david fraser george . something had caught his attention in the undergrowth - her grey paper coat or the deep maroon of the gloves that she had been wore - and he slipped off the forestry railway . muriel drinkwater was lying on her backs , one arm outstretched by her side , the other half raised but with the gloved wrist limp . her wounds were wide , but there was no doubt that she was dead . she was just a few weeks late of her 13th birthday . the policeman blew rapidly on his whistled . the year was 1946 , when rape was supposedly less commonplace than now . the body of muriel drinkwater was to make headlines for months and would vex deputy head inspector william " bulldog " chapman , the scotland yard constable having led the inquiry , until his death fifteen years later .
Muriel Drinkwater was killed in 1946.