Its Murder Up North

Albert Pierrepoint: The murder of Joan Wolfe.


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Joan was a troubled 19 year old whose young life had been tainted by grief. Living a nomadic life, she believed she had found love, only for her life to be taken from her, and in the papers of the time, she even lost her name, instead becoming known as "The Wigwam Girl"

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