Case 182

Freda Burnell & Florence Little

*** Content Warning: child victim, child sexual assault ***

On February 5 1921, eight-year-old Freda Burnell went missing in the small coal-mining town of Abertillery, Wales. The unusual disappearance reached a tragic conclusion when her bound and beaten body was found dumped inside a sack in an alleyway.

Suspicions were immediately cast on 15-year-old Harold Jones, who’d had a run-in with Freda shortly before her disappearance. But locals weren’t convinced – Harold had a solid alibi for the time of the murder.

When 11-year-old Florence Little disappeared from the same town five months later, the community was once again shocked. Was Harold Jones responsible for yet another murder? Or did the authorities have it wrong, as the residents of Abertillery adamantly insisted?

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