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She was ‘quite possibly’ killed by a high-heeled shoe. Does the secret to Mary Ellen Pillsworth’s murder lie in a neighbour’s love letters to her husband?
''She was ‘quite possibly’ killed by a high-heeled shoe. Does the secret to Mary Ellen Pillsworth’s murder lie in a neighbour’s love letters to her husband?
March 21, 2021
The love letters and poems arrived in the mail for Elbert (Buster) Pillsworth in the spring of 1946, three months after his wife Mary Ellen was fatally beaten in the living room of their comfortable Brampton home at 88 Mill St. S.
“I watch you every night,” one letter said, according to Star reporter Fred McClement. “I can’t live without you,” another stated.''
COLD CASE: Brampton housewife bludgeoned in her own living room
''Article was updated Mar. 01, 2020
As cold cases go, the mysterious murder of Brampton housewife Mary Pillsworth is probably one of this city's coldest.
Pillsworth, 30, was brutally beaten to death inside her Mill Street South living room while her two young children were asleep in their beds.
It was Jan. 12, 1946, and Canada's murder rate was the lowest it would be compared to the decades that followed. So, in Brampton, population 5,000, the young mother's killing was unusual, and cause for alarm.''
''According to accounts, she had already gone upstairs to bed. She was in her bedclothes, and her daughter Linda, four, and son Donald, seven months, were tucked in their beds asleep. But something brought her downstairs, just before 10 p.m. She either heard a noise, or someone had knocked on the door or rung the doorbell.''
''Whatever brought her to the living room, someone came inside the house and she was hit repeatedly on the head. According to the pathologist at the time, her skull was fractured in several places.
It is believed her attacker than went to the side door of the house and ran out, leaving it open.''
''She was ‘quite possibly’ killed by a high-heeled shoe. Does the secret to Mary Ellen Pillsworth’s murder lie in a neighbour’s love letters to her husband?
March 21, 2021
The love letters and poems arrived in the mail for Elbert (Buster) Pillsworth in the spring of 1946, three months after his wife Mary Ellen was fatally beaten in the living room of their comfortable Brampton home at 88 Mill St. S.
“I watch you every night,” one letter said, according to Star reporter Fred McClement. “I can’t live without you,” another stated.''
COLD CASE: Brampton housewife bludgeoned in her own living room
''Article was updated Mar. 01, 2020
As cold cases go, the mysterious murder of Brampton housewife Mary Pillsworth is probably one of this city's coldest.
Pillsworth, 30, was brutally beaten to death inside her Mill Street South living room while her two young children were asleep in their beds.
It was Jan. 12, 1946, and Canada's murder rate was the lowest it would be compared to the decades that followed. So, in Brampton, population 5,000, the young mother's killing was unusual, and cause for alarm.''
''According to accounts, she had already gone upstairs to bed. She was in her bedclothes, and her daughter Linda, four, and son Donald, seven months, were tucked in their beds asleep. But something brought her downstairs, just before 10 p.m. She either heard a noise, or someone had knocked on the door or rung the doorbell.''
''Whatever brought her to the living room, someone came inside the house and she was hit repeatedly on the head. According to the pathologist at the time, her skull was fractured in several places.
It is believed her attacker than went to the side door of the house and ran out, leaving it open.''
