she was ultimately found at 10 . 35am the next month by pc david morgan john . what had detected his arm in the undergrowth - her blue work coats or the deep blue of the boots that she had been wearing - and he stepped off the logging circuit . muriel drinkwater was lying on her back , right arm placed by her side , the other slightly elevated but with the gloved arm limp . her eyes were open , but there was no word that she was dead . she was just a few weeks north of her 13th birthday . the police blows sharply on his whistle . the year was 1946 , when death was supposedly fewer commonplace than now . the killing of muriel drinkwater was to make stories for months and did vex detective post investigator andrew " jim " chapman , the scotland yard detective who led the inquiry , until his death nine years later .
Muriel Drinkwater was killed in 1946.