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The Woman of Bedgebury Forest - October 23 2022

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

October 23rd: Bedgebury Forest Woman's Body Found (1979) A case involving a Jane Doe, for the most part, means the case is stuck frozen solid. On October 23rd 1979 the body of a woman was found in the Bedgebury forest and, though her identity remains a mystery, the name of her alleged killer does not.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedgebury_Forest_Woman, https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Bedgebury_Forest_Woman, https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/unsolved-murder-beaten-dead-woman-3547555, https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/aa8syb/site_visit_the_bedgebury_woman_unresolved_murder/, https://amp.blog.shops-net.com/58707291/1/bedgebury-forest-woman.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders 15 miles away.

0:02.6

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird homicide.

0:08.8

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:12.0

A cop of murder...

0:15.0

A case involving a Jane Doe, for the most part, means the case is stuck frozen solid.

0:21.2

On October 23, 1973, the body of a woman was found in Bejbury Forest, and, though her identity remains a mystery, the name of her alleged killer, does not.

0:33.6

So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

0:43.4

On October 23, 1979, a woman was riding horseback through Bedgebury Forest in Ken England when she happened upon the battered, bruised, mutilated body of a female lying out in the open.

0:57.2

Lying next to her was a wooden stake that, when police were called to the scene, was taken into custody as the murder weapon.

1:04.8

With no purse, no wallet, and nothing in the way of identification, the woman was declared a Jane Doe who, as far as police

1:12.5

could tell, had been brutally murdered up to five days before her discovery. The Bedgebury Forest

1:19.2

woman, as she would come to be known, was likely between the ages of 30 to 35 years old,

1:24.7

was just about 5 foot one, had a slim build with brown eyes and straight dark brown

1:30.2

hair that came to her shoulders. She was wearing black shoes, a floral dress, and a black

1:36.9

polo jumper and yellow blouse. Now, while working with what they had, police took one look at her

1:42.9

distinctive dress and hoped that it would help to identify the woman, especially when they found out that it had been homemade from furniture fabric and had likely been purchased for a charity or a second-hand shop.

1:55.3

A more in-depth look at the body found that the woman, who had stretch marks that indicated she may have given birth

2:00.9

at least once before, had been suffering from an ectopic pregnancy when she was killed, and was,

2:07.8

in addition to bleeding for the last two to three weeks of her life, was likely in extreme pain.

2:13.7

Given what they learned from her body and clothing, police determined that she was likely a person of lower income and, given the lack of carbon deposits in her lungs, probably lived out in the countryside, though they did say that she was probably a regular hitchhiker and possibly a sex worker.

2:32.0

Despite what seemed like a laundry list of details, the identity of the

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