It was a damp August evening in 1925 when 21 year old Iris Watkins made her way to the post box at the end of the lane. The two letters that she posted made it to their destination the next day, but Iris never returned home. The small South Wales town of Blackwood became a hive of activity, with many locals joining in the search and the community full of rumours regarding what had happened to the young shop assistant. A little over a month later Iris’s body was found in a brook on the outskirts of the town, but that was just the beginning of the mystery.

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British Newspaper Archive
Dundee Evening Telegraph
14/07/1925
Dundee Courier
30/09/25
Western Morning News
30/09/25
Birmingham Daily Gazette
16/08/25
24/08/25
29/09/25
30/09/25
Gloucestershire Echo
25/09/25
Western Mail
14/08/25
25/08/25
28/09/25
01/10/25
03/10/25
05/10/25
09/10/25
10/10/25
12/10/25
20/10/25
25/11/25
04/12/25
10/12/25
11/12/25
15/12/25
15/01/26
05/02/26
23/02/26
18/03/26
Belfast Telegraph
29/09/25
Edinburgh Evening News
25/09/25
Daily Mirror
26/09/25
Sunday Post
27/09/25
The People
26/09/25
Nottingham Evening Post
28/09/25
Western Daily Press
28/09/25
John Bull
18/09/25
Hartlepool Daily Mail
23/09/25
Aberdeen Press and Journal
23/09/25
29/09/25
Shields Daily News
28/09/25
Daily News London
24/09/25
29/09/25
Northern Whig
23/09/25

http://www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=3674&termRef=Iris%20Watkins

https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/11396176.gwents-forgotten-past-history-reveals-rough-justice/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unsolved-1925-Murders-Pat-Finn/dp/1542373166

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