UK UK - Worcestershire, Fem Skeletal 'Bella in the Wych Elm', Hagley Hall, Apr'43

[Grouse]

Her underskirt was taffeta and there was taffeta in her mouth. It sounds like she was gagged.

In the book by Alex Merrill it states that one of the boys who discovered the remains believed he may have pushed the cloth into the hole at the base of the skull with the stick he used to fish it out. If that indeed was the case then we don't appear to have a cause of death.

 

[Grouse]

Does anyone know if this tree is still there? Was it cut down? Or memorialized somehow? I can’t seem to find any information on the tree itself aside from old photographs.

In episode 1 of the podcast (at approx 13:50) that @dotr shared in post #51 they visited the scene and the tree is "long gone".