96 | The Wrotham Hill Murder: Fabian of the Yard Investigates

In October 1946, 48-year-old Dagmar Peters was found murdered on Wrotham Hill in Kent after a lorry driver spotted a blue shoe at the roadside. The investigation was led by Chief Inspector Robert Fabian, later immortalised in the TV series Fabian of the Yard. Suspicion fell on lorry driver Sidney Sinclair, a man with multiple aliases whose story soon unravelled under questioning.

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Sources:
National Archives: MEPO 3/2743; PCOM 9/740
Ancestry.co.uk
Murder at Wrotham Hill. Quercus, 2012
Daily Mirror – Friday 11 December 1908
Daily Telegraph & Courier (London) – Saturday 12 December 1908
Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser – Friday 25 December 1908
Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette – Friday 01 November 1946
Daily News (London) – Monday 04 November 1946
Evening News (London) – Saturday 23 November 1946
Derby Daily Telegraph – Friday 20 December 1946
Daily Mirror – Saturday 01 March 1947
Evening News (London) – Tuesday 18 March 1947
Western Morning News – Wednesday 19 March 1947
Maidstone Telegraph – Friday 21 March 1947
The People – Sunday 03 August 1947