✝️ Jean Stafford, age 31 – May 18 1942, London, England, United Kingdom 🏴💔
also: Agnes Stafford
Jean was from Hull and had married on 7 February 1933. When she married, she was 23-years-old and her husband was 50-years-old. At the time he had been a sporting journalist who had worked in Canada but at the time of her death he was an ARP Warden in Leeds. After they married, they lived at various addresses in Hull but in 1937 Jean Stafford went to London to start working in a hotel. However, it was said that after leaving for London Jean Stafford deserted her husband.
Jean was strangled to death with her own summer dress. Her jaw had been broken. She was left naked on her bed, except for her bra. The police said that when they searched her flat they found that there was no money there and thought that robbery might have been the motive.