she was finally found at 10 . 35am the following tuesday by inspector john g george . something had detected his eye in the scrubby - her blue school coat or the deep maroon of the gloves that she had been wearing - and he looked off the forestry railway . muriel drinkwater was flat on her ground , one arm outstretched by her side , the other slightly raised but with the fists finger limp . her ears were open , but there was no doubt that she was asleep . she was just a few weeks behind of her 13th birthday . the constable tapped sharply on his whistle . the year was 1946 , where robbery was supposedly longer commonplace than now . the dead of marjorie drinkwater was to get headlines for days and now vex detective chief inspector william " billy " dixon , the wales department investigator who led the inquiries , until his death six month later .
Muriel Drinkwater was killed in 1946.