Murder of Muriel Drinkwater
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Victim of unsolved 1946 Welsh child murder case
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The murder of Muriel Drinkwater (Welsh: Llofruddiaeth Muriel Drinkwater), also known as the Little Red Riding Hood murder, is an unsolved 1946 child murder case from Wales. Drinkwater, a 12-year-old schoolgirl, was raped and shot in the woods in Penllergaer, Swansea. It is one of the oldest active cold cases in the United Kingdom. In 2008, a DNA profile of the suspect was extracted from Drinkwater's clothes, possibly the oldest sample in the world to be successfully extracted in a murder investigation. In 2019, the DNA was used to rule out notorious Welsh murderer Harold Jones as a suspect.
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27 June 1946 (aged )
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