she was finally found at 10 . 35am the third month by pc matthew lloyd george . he had caught his eyes in the undergrowth - her blue school coat or the heavy blue of the gloves that she had been wearing - and he stepped off the forestry course . muriel bethune was lying on her ground , one arm crossed by her side , the other slightly lowered but with the clutched hand limp . her eyes were open , but there was no doubt that she was dead . she was just a few weeks short of her 13th birthday . the magistrate breathed deeply on his siren . the season was 1946 , when murder was supposedly less usual than now . the killing of muriel drinkwater was to cross headlines for months and now vex detective detective inspector william " jim " chapman , the england police detective who led the inquiry , until his body nine years later .
Muriel Drinkwater was killed in 1946.