On the morning of December 12th, 1945, a severed arm was found on the shore in Torry, Aberdeen, Scotland. Though the rest of the remains were never found, police were able to identify the arm as belonging to Elizabeth “Betty” Hadden; the seventeen-year-old maid and waitress’s fingerprints were on file from a previous arrest for shoplifting.
During the course of the inquiry, detectives found that witnesses had seen Betty Harden in the company of two sailors on the evening before she died, and that several people had heard a woman screaming in terror at around two in the morning. Authorities also deduced that the girl’s arm had been cut off using a knife and a saw.
Betty was reported to be quite flirtatious, especially toward customers at the restaurant where she worked, though it’s unknown if this tendency may have contributed to her grim fate.
Despite a thorough investigation into the teenager’s death, the remainder of her body was never found, and no suspects were ever apprehended.
Crime Immemorial 