Age: 55
Sex: female
Date: 14 Feb 1945
Place: Exmouth Street, Southampton
Mary Helen Hoyles was found dead in a Exmouth Street, a cul de sac off New Road near her lodgings in Southampton.
There were marks of injury around her face and neck and bruises on her legs and a superficial wound on her right knee. Her stocking had been torn and it as thought that she had been manually strangled.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Manchester Evening News - Thursday 22 February 1945
see Western Morning News - Saturday 17 February 1945
see Sunday Mirror - Sunday 18 February 1945
see Evening Despatch - Thursday 22 February 1945
see Birmingham Mail - Monday 19 February 1945
see Manchester Evening News - Thursday 22 February 1945
see Western Morning News - Tuesday 20 February 1945
see Gloucestershire Echo - Thursday 16 August 1945
see Gloucester Citizen - Thursday 16 August 1945
see Southampton at War 1939-45 by John J Eddleston
see Unsolved 1945
