she was finally buried at 10 . 35am the next day by mr david lloyd constantine . something had caught his eye in the undergrowth - her blue school tie or the deep burgundy of the gloves that she had been wearing - and he came off the forests track . her drinkwater was half on her back , one arm lying by her side , the other knee raised but with the fingertip hand limp . her jaws were open , but there was no question that she was dead . she was just a few weeks short of her 13th date . the policemen drew softly on his whistle . the year was 1946 , when murder was supposedly more regular than now . the hanging of muriel drinkwater was to make appearances for inches and perhaps vex detective chief inspector william " bulldog " chapman , the scotland yard detective who led the inquiry , until his death nine years later .
Muriel Drinkwater was killed in 1946.