she was last dead at 10 . 35am the second day by sergeant david lloyd george . somewhere had noticed his eye in the undergrowth - her pink school shirt or the deep red of the mask that she had been wearing - and he stepped off the forestry track . muriel wagstaff was lying on her face , one arm outstretched by her side , the other slightly up but with the glove hand still . her eyes were glazed , but there was no indication that she was dead . she was just a few weeks short of her 13th birthday . the constable blew sharply on his whistle . the age was 1946 , before this was supposedly less frequent than now . the disappearance of muriel duffield was to make publicity for months and would vex detective special inspector phillip " mickey " taylor , the uk yard constable which led the investigating , until his death nine years later .
Muriel Drinkwater was killed in 1946.