Harold Hill – “The Babes in the Wood murder”.
Harold Hill – “The Babes in the Wood murder” . Doreen Joyce Hearne, aged 8 and Kathleen Tradle (or Trendell) age 6, left Tyler’s Green school as usual at 4 p.m. on the afternoon of Wednesday the 10th of November 1941. The pair started their journey home on foot but at around 4.15 p.m. were seen by fellow students climbing into an army truck. One of the more observant ones, 13 year old Gordon Page, noted the truck’s identification number and also that it had a Remembrance Day poppy in the grille. A huge search for the girls was mounted by police and volunteers. On the 13th of November their bodies were found in Rough Wood off Mop End Road in Penn Street, Buckinghamshire some four miles from their home. Both had been strangled and repeatedly stabbed in the throat and chest, but had not been sexually assaulted. They were buried side by side at St, Margaret’s church in Tyler’s Green on the 27th of November. Police investigations found that the truck was based at the 341 Battery of th