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A Death in Peking: Who Really Killed Pamela Werner

Evidence missing from the crime scene ... and never found

8/26/2018

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Missing from the crime scene under Peking's medieval Tartar wall were two notable items: Pamela's ladies bicycle & her ice skates.
Friends saw her leave the French rink in the Legation Quarter with both items at 7.30 on the cold night of Thursday January 7th - the last time she was seen alive. Pamela left alone to cycle home in the dark. She never made her destination.
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1930s ladies bicycle
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period ladies ice skates

​No one came forward to hand in either item as lost or abandoned. No one reported receiving them, or trading them, or being offered them.
Neither were ever seen again. 

The victim's wristwatch, meanwhile, was found on her body.





Questions for the police in 1937:

Were the items taken by the murderer?

Or stolen later by an opportunist passer-by?

​Did someone baulk at descending into a ditch to take a watch from a corpse? Or was it simply overlooked in the dark?

And leaving these objects aside, what kind of person removes a victim's heart? 
 


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wristwatch in the style of the time
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    Graeme Sheppard

    Author of the new book, A Death in Peking, published by Earnshaw Books.

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