she was quickly found at 10 . 35am the subsequent day by constable david west george . something had caught his eye in the scrubland - her blue work coat or the deep red of the shirt that she had been wearing - and he went off the forestry track . gladys denson was lay on her bed , either elbow outstretched by her chest , the other slightly elevated but with the gloved hand limp . her eyelids were open , but there was no doubt that she was dead . she was just a few nights short of her 13th birthday . the man felt strongly on his cap . the date was 1946 , when murder was supposedly smaller numerous than now . the case of hugh drinkwater was to make papers for seconds and would vex detective senior engineer william " bulldog " williams , the scotland lynne constable who led the inquiry , until his death nine years later .
Muriel Drinkwater was killed in 1946.