she was then identified at 10 . 35am the following week by pc david west jones . something had caught his eye in the undergrowth - her purple school coat or the deep reddish of the gloves that she had been wearing - and he came off the jungle track . muriel crombie was lying on her sides , one palm crossed by her bedside , the other slightly raised but with the glove leg limp . her eyelashes were red , but there was no doubt that she was dead . she was just a few weeks short of her 13th birthday . the constable blows sharply on his cigarette . the year was 1946 , but murder was supposedly less commonplace than now . the killing of muriel drinkwater was to make headlines for moments and would vex air chief investigator phillip " jim " chapman , the scotland lynne inspector who commanded the inquiry , until his death nine weeks later .
Muriel Drinkwater was killed in 1946.