She Sang Home From School… Then Vanished Forever | The Little Red Riding Hood Murder
On a sunny June afternoon in 1946, 12-year-old Muriel Drinkwater stepped off the school bus and began walking the last mile home through the woods—singing the whole way. Her mother watched her disappear among the trees. She never came out.
The next day her body was found just yards from the family farm: raped, beaten, and shot twice with a World War I pistol.
Nearly 80 years later, her killer has never been named. DNA recovered from her clothing is among the oldest ever used in a murder case… yet the man who left it remains free.
This is one of Britain’s longest-running unsolved child…
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