Louis Bega was originally from India, but moved to the UK in 1946, settling in Eccles, Greater Manchester, England, and finding work in a mill. He married two years later, and he and his wife had two children before separating in 1964.
On June 23rd, 1966, Louis Bega, then aged forty-three, was found dying of twenty-six stab wounds on his living room floor. A neighbor told police that they had seen a tall, thin-faced man walking away from the house at the time of the slaying.
Louis reportedly told authorities before he died that his wife’s lover had been the person who stabbed him. Still, after a thorough investigation, detectives suspected instead that Louis had surprised a burglar.
In 1996, on the thirtieth anniversary of the murder, Louis’s brother Michel, then dying from an inoperable heart disease, made a renewed plea in the media to help solve the case, offering a reward of £1,000 for information.
Sadly, though, no new leads emerged, and the investigation, while still open, has gone completely cold.
Crime Immemorial 