she was then identified at 10 . 35am the opposite day by inspector ben west georg . he had caught his eye in the undergrowth - her black sport coat or the deep maroon of the shirt that she had been wearing - and he stepped off the wood track . she wagstaff was lying on her back , either arm outstretched by her side , the other leg raised but with the clutched finger limp . her eyes were open , but there was no question that she was dead . she was just a few weeks short of her 13th birthday . the constable blew sharply on his whistle . the year was 1946 , when murder was really better commonplace than now . the killing of muriel baily was to make newspapers for months and would vex detective chief inspector william " bulldog " chapman , the scotland yard detective that led the inquiry , until his death seventeen minutes afterward .
Muriel Drinkwater was killed in 1946.