Age: 46
Sex: male
Date: 5 Oct 1949
Place: Dengie Marshes, Tillingham, Essex
Stanley Setty was murdered between 4 and 5 October 1949 and his body dismembered and dumped out of an aircraft over the Thames Estuary. His remains were later found on 21 October 1949 in Dengie Marshes.
A 29-year-old company director was tried for his murder but acquitted, although he was convicted of being an accessory to murder.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see The Scotsman - Friday 27 January 1950
see National Archives - MEPO 3/3144
see Belfast News-Letter - Monday 17 October 1949
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Thursday 24 September 1959
see Reading Evening Post - Wednesday 20 April 1988
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Thursday 22 April 1976
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Friday 06 June 1958
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 25 October 1949
see Torbay Express and South Devon Echo - Monday 07 November 1949
see Nottingham Journal - Monday 24 October 1949
see Murderpedia
see New Yorker
see Unsolved 1949
