Nineteen-year-old Mary Kriek was Dutch, but had moved to Boxted, Essex, England, to work as an au pair at Bullbanks Farm; she had only started work about a month prior. At about ten-forty-five on the evening of Sunday, January 5th, 1958, Mary got off a bus at Foxes Corner in Eight Ash Green, less than three hundred yards from the farm, but was attacked only minutes after disembarking.
The following day, her body was found by a cyclist on Dedham Road, a location approximately ten miles away from where she’d vanished. She had been beaten repeatedly in the head with a tire iron.
At the time, authorities attempted to link the murder to that of seventeen-year-old Ann Noblett, who was killed in Hertfordshire in late December of 1957, likewise after getting off a bus, in a crime that became known as the Deep Freeze Murder. Police interviewed two suspects in 1959 about both homicides, but neither man was charged.
To this day, the murders of both Mary Kriek and Ann Noblett remain unsolved.
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