The Ribbon That Took Her: The Unsolved Murder of Sheila Martin

Two girls. Two woods. Ten days apart. One chilling pattern that haunts Britain’s past.

In this episode of Peculiar Britain, we step into the eerie quiet of post-war Fawkham Green to revisit one of Kent’s most haunting unsolved crimes—the brutal murder of 11-year-old Sheila Martin in 1946. But this isn’t just a story of one small village's grief. Just ten days earlier, 250 miles away, 12-year-old Muriel Drinkwater was murdered in a strikingly similar fashion in the woods of Wales. With haunting parallels and lingering questions, this episode unpacks the terrifying possibility of a serial predator in post-war Britain—and a silence that has lasted nearly 80 years.

Were these connected? Or was something darker stalking post-war Britain?

Police files remain closed. Answers lie locked in archives until 2045. But these two haunting echoes across time continue to raise troubling questions—and demand remembrance.

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