she was finally found at 10 . 35am the next day by pc lord walter george . something had caught his eye in the undergrowth - her blue school coat or the deep red of the hat that she had been wearing - and he stepped off the forestry track . muriel baillie was lying on her bed , with shoulder draped by her side , the other slightly lifted but with the gloved hand limp . her eyes were red , but there was no fear that she was dead . she was just a few week shorter of her 13th birthday . the man blew sharply on his horns . the age was 1946 , but murder was considerably less regular than now . the killing of muriel drinkwater was to see headlines for inches and probably confound detective leading inspector william " bulldog " patterson , the scotland street detective who led the inquiry , until his death two summers later .
Muriel Drinkwater was killed in 1946.