On Sunday December the 19th 1948, the body of a man was discovered in the shadow of Sopwell Nunnery in St Albans, Hertfordshire. He had been savagely beaten and left without his trousers or jacket. An extensive police investigation yielded plenty of sightings of the man, and of potential suspects and yet no one was ever caught and the case remains unsolved. 

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SOURCES USED

https://www.mynewsmag.co.uk/crime-chronicles-story-of-a-man-who-was-brutally-murdered-in-1940s-st-albans/ 22nd Octover 2023

https://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/22340468.tragic-brutal-unsolved-murder-stephen-varley/ 14th June 2022

www.ancestry.co.uk 

https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-77433

Tuesday 21st December 1948, Daily Herald, pg 1

Tuesday 21st December 1948, Daily News, pg 1

Wednesday 22nd December 1948, Torbay Express and South Devon Echo, pg 1

Wednesday 22nd December 1948, Dundee Courier, pg 3

Thursday 23rd December 1948, Torbay Express and South Devon Echo, pg 1

Thursday 23rd December 1948, Daily Herald, pg 1

Friday 24th December 1948, Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, pg 1

Tuesday 28th December 1948, Nottingham Journal, pg 1

Friday 14th January 1949, Shields Daily News, pg 12

Wednesday 16th February 1949, Coventry Evening Telegraph, pg 9 

https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/visit/sopwell-ruins

Various articles:

Herts Advertiser & St Albans Times

Watford Observer