Twenty-three-year-old Beata Bryl was originally from Poland but had moved to England with her much older boyfriend in 2003.
At approximately eleven-thirty p.m. on July 28th, 2006, Beata was captured on CCTV cameras walking through Leytonstone tube station, clad in a red jacket, gray pants, and white sneakers, and carrying a white MK One bag. It was the last sighting of her alive.
The following day at a little before one in the afternoon, a driver pulled over to urinate in the woods off Hedsor Lane in Buckinghamshire and noticed something smoking a short distance away. Upon closer inspection, the smoldering object was found to be a woman’s body.
The remains were identified a month later as those of Beata Bryl. She had been brutally bludgeoned in the head nearly two dozen times, and then her killer had poured accelerant over her and set her on fire.
The location where the body was found lay approximately fifty miles from the train station where Beata was last seen alive.
During the investigation, police interviewed Beata’s mother back in Poland, who stated that she believed Beata’s boyfriend had nefarious intentions and had forced Beata into prostitution in England. He was also reportedly physically abusive. Beata’s mother further claimed that her daughter had returned to Poland in October of 2006 and had looked very thin and frightened, but had returned to England after her boyfriend kept calling and telling her to come back.
According to additional statements, Beata had phoned her mother two days before going missing and said that someone was threatening to kill her, as well as her mother.
Beata’s boyfriend has never been found, and as of November 2024, her brutal murder remains unsolved.
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