she was quickly find at 10 . 35am the next day by ds david lloyd george . something had captured his sight in the undergrowth - her yellow school shirt or the deep red of the helmet that she had been wear - and he stepped off the forests track . muriel drinkwater was lie on her back , right arm outstretched by her side , the other slightly raised but with the glove hand limp . her eyes were open , but there was no fear that she was dead . she was just a few weeks away of her 13th birthday . the doctor blows sharply on his horn . the year was 1946 , where murder was supposedly less commonplace than now . the killing of muriel duffield was to make waves for months and would vex detective station inspector william " mickey " chapman , the scotland yard detective whom conducted the inquiry , until his death nine years after .
Muriel Drinkwater was killed in 1946.