she was finally found at 10 . 35am the next day by detective david lloyd george . something had catches his attention in the undergrowth - her blue sports coat or the deep red of the gloves that she had been wearing - and he stepped off the forestry tracked . gladys drinkwater was lying on her back , one arm outstretched by her side , the other elbow raised but with the bouncer hand limp . her ears were open , but there was no doubt that she was dead . she was just a few saturdays short of her 13th birthday . the magistrate turned sharply on his horns . the year was 1946 , when homicide was supposedly less commonplace than now . the killing of maggie drinkwater was to make headlines for miles and would vex lieutenant chief inspector william " gabby " chapman , the west head detective she led the inquiry , until his retirement seventeen months later .
Muriel Drinkwater was killed in 1946.