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Case 182: Freda Burnell & Florence Little

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Freeda's Murder in Abetileary, London

Freda's body was found in close proximity to a shed used by mortimer's store, which contained stock too large to fit on the shop floor. Multiple witnesses said that shortly after freda left Mortimer's they heard screams coming from the direction of the storage shed. A small handkerchief that freda was carrying the day she was attacked was also discovered in the shed, as was an axe hidden under a sack. And while the blade itself was clean, the handle was covered in wet blood. The shed was 275 meters from mortimer's Store, owned and operated by its namesake, a local man named herbert mortimer.

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