The school bus dropped Muriel Drinkwater at her usual stop, leaving her to walk the last part of her journey home to the family farm in Penllergaer,  West Wales. The 12 year old loved to sing and there was a skip in her step as she started on the winding path through the forest. Just before she entered the woods she looked up to see the farm in the distance. Her mother was in the kitchen and they exchanged a wave before Muriel disappeared from view. Muriel never made it home and her body was found the next day in the undergrowth. She had been assaulted and shot twice in the chest.  No arrests were ever made but evidence unearthed in 2020 has produced the name of a new prime suspect.

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Sources 

• www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/unsolved-murder-12-year-old-19232081.amp
• www.mamamia.com.au/muriel-drinkwater-murder/amp/
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