This episode deals with a crime committed against a child. Please exercise self-care when choosing to listen.
There was nothing that Vera Page loved more in the world than swimming at the Lancaster Road Baths, in Notting Hill, West London. The 10 year old was proud of her achievements in the pool, especially of the two certificates she had just been awarded. On Monday the 14th of December 1931, Vera got home from school and headed two minutes down the road to her Aunt Minnie's house to collect the certificates which she had left with her the previous day. She was excited to show them to other members of her family. Vera told her Mum she wouldn't be long. She arrived at her Aunt's at 4.40pm and chatted briefly before leaving for home. For whatever reason, Vera did not return straight home and instead walked past her house and continued to Portobello Road, a popular shopping area. She was spotted several times over the next couple of hours, but Vera never returned home.
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Sources
Websites
https://truecrimeengland.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/the-murder-of-vera-page/amp/
https://www.truecrimelibrary.com/crimearticle/vera-page/
http://www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=1348&termRef=Vera%20Isobel%20Minnie%20Page
https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/487292
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/03/the-mysterious-disappearance-and-death-of-vera-page/
https://truecrimediva.com/vera-page/
British Newspaper Archive
Dundee Evening Telegraph
16/12/31
10/02/32
11/02/32
Dundee Courier
11/02/32
Daily News (London)
17/12/31
17/12/31
24/12/31
06/01/32
07/01/32
11/01/32
25/01/32
12/02/32
Daily Mirror
19/12/31
21/12/31
22/12/31
23/12/31
Sunday Mirror
20/12/31
24/01/32
Daily Herald
06/01/32
08/02/32
12/03/32
West London Observer
25/12/31
07/01/32Leicester Evening Mail
22/12/31
Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
26/12/31
Reynolds Newspaer
27/12/31
Western Daily Press
01/01/32
Sunday Sun (Newcastle)
03/01/32
Belfast Telegraph
04/01/32
05/01/32
12/02/32
Weekly Dispatch
23/01/32
28/02/32
14/02/32
Northampton Mercury
29/01/32
The People
17/01/32
31/01/32
Nottingham Evening Post
18/02/32
Graphic
20/02/32
Aberdeen Press and Journal
08/02/32
15/02/32
Sheffield Independent
25/01/32
Derby Daily Tel
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