Eighty-eight-year-old widow and retired cotton mill worker Agnes Ogden lived on Erringden Road in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, England. She had lived there alone since her husband’s death in 1971. Though she suffered from spinal curvature and walked with a cane, her family said she was very active and in otherwise good health.
On December 19th, 1991, the elderly woman was found dead in a downstairs bedroom of her residence. She had been suffocated and brutally beaten about the face, apparently with a fist. Neighbors reported seeing her at around four-thirty p.m. on the day before her body was discovered, leading authorities to believe that the killer had broken into her home sometime the night before.
A pane of glass had been smashed out of the back door, indicating where the perpetrator had gained entry. Although drawers and cabinets in the home had clearly been rifled through, it was unclear whether anything had been stolen.
The only clue recovered from the scene was a brightly-colored flashlight with a twist grip that police speculated may have belonged to the killer.
Authorities believe that the murderer may have been a local, and urged the public anew in 2016 to come forward with any information. However, as of this writing in November 2024, the slaying of Agnes Ogden is still unsolved.
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