she was finally found at 10 . 35am the past year by superintendent david lloyd george . something had caught his sight in the undergrowth - her blue sports shirt or the deeper red of the gloves that she had been wearing - and he stepped off the forestry trail . muriel ragsdale was lying on her back , left arm folded by her side , the other head raised but with the gloved hand free . 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 constable blew sharply on his whistle . the year was 1946 , when rape was supposedly fewer commonly than now . the killing of muriel taggart was to make reports for months and would vex air chief inspector andrew " bulldog " boyd , the wales department detective who ran the inquiry , until his death nine years late .
Muriel Drinkwater was killed in 1946.