Beloved mother and grandmother Pamela Wheeler was seventy-six years old, and lived alone in a semi-detached house in Thamesmead, southeast London. Her husband Dennis had passed away in 2010, and Pamela herself had only just recovered from breast cancer.
On July 19th, 2012, Pamela was seen shopping at the local Morrisons supermarket. This was believed to be the last sighting of her alive.
A few days later, on July 22nd, one of her neighbors became concerned that she hadn’t seen Pamela, and went to the house to check on her. Inside, she was greeted with a horrifying scene: Pamela Wheeler’s wrists and ankles had been bound, and she had been beaten to death. Injuries on her arms indicated she had fought vigorously against her killer or killers. A post-mortem further determined that she had died from head trauma and suffocation.
Authorities suspected that the perpetrator or perpetrators had broken in, restrained her, and then tortured her into revealing the location of a small safe in her home, as well as the PIN numbers to her accounts. Several of Pamela’s credit cards were found scattered around her property.
Shortly after the discovery of the body, detectives were seeking information on two men who had supposedly been acting oddly near Pamela’s home on July 19th, but these individuals were eventually cleared of suspicion.
A £20,000 reward for information was offered starting in 2013, but as of 2024, the brutal slaying of the harmless elderly woman remains unsolved.
Crime Immemorial 