Rest in Peace
This afternoon, some property developers made a rather morbid discovery of bones when they
began digging up a plot of land to build houses on in Glasgow.
They immediately alerted us and investigators promptly attended the scene.
Alongside the remains, a Surrey County Council library card with the name 'Ms Doris Ellen Smith'
was found together with a business card from a sewing club. This is potentially a bit odd as Surrey is
over 400 miles away from Glasgow.
This, combined with the location of the bones, has prompted us to launch a murder investigation.
Now, assuming that Ms Smith had links with family, friends or her sewing club, then it is likely that
she was reported missing and subsequently a death certificate would have been issued owing to
her not being seen again.
Could you find out the year that she was presumed dead? This will help us to establish how long the
remains may have been lying there and enable us to add crucial details to our inquiries.
Note: You only have 5 attempts for this so be reasonably confident before you check your answer.
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Searching Google for "Doris Ellen Smith" + death + Scotland led me to Ancestry, which told me that a UK individual by the same name died in 1966. Unfortunately this was not the correct answer, so I had to keep digging.