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On the evening of December 23, 1959,

a young woman named Margaret Caterba was getting ready to leave her hostel lodgings to see her family for the festive period.

And she was packing her suitcase, she heard a scream.

Margaret momentarily stopped what she was doing and listened intently.

She heard nothing more.

Margaret assumed it was one of the other hostel residents joking around in their room.

When her suitcase was finally packed, she hauled the luggage out of the door at the back of

the Queen's wing of the YWCA hostel in Edgeburston. It was just before 7pm.

Margaret Caterbaugh was blissfully unaware that she was walking away from the scene of one of the most

horrific murders in Birmingham's history.

Welcome to Season 8, Episode 31 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.

This is part one of a two-part case.

The second installment will be available in three days.

Thank you. second installment will be available in three days. The YWCA hostel on Wheely's Road was established in a large historic building that had fallen

out of favour. The premises had been named Edencroft, a title that conjures images of greenery,

but the property which had seen better days was located on a darkened stretch of road.

To the right of the main building was the Queen's Wing, a prefabricated single-story building with 12 small flats.

There was also an annex with eight further rooms allowing more women to stay at the hostel.

One of the residents was 20-year-old Margaret Brown.

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