Bolton , 1982. A mummified body is discovered in the cellar of a house in Bolton. The dead woman is covered in a News of the World newspaper dated March 1966.
She wears rosary beads and an eternity ring, but there is no other clue to her identity. It is a mystery that, more than 40 years later remains unsolved. Now family of a man who found the remains in the cellar of a house , are looking for answers about her identity.
John and Wendy Baxendale moved into their new house in 1982 December 14 and were renovating it in Bromwich Street, The Haulgh, and got the shock of their lives when they found the remains of a human body. Given the name ‘Mary Ellen’ by police, it is believed she could have been dead for as long as 17 years before the discovery. Many leads have been and gone into the search for identity of Mary, but nothing has yet confirmed who she really was.
The investigation by a team of up to 30 detectives hit the national headlines -- and involved a search through the missing persons records of towns and cities throughout the UK. But the officers on that 1982 inquiry were never able to establish the identity of the woman whose badly decomposed body was discovered in the cellar of a large Victorian house in Bromwich Street. And at an inquest in Bolton in April, 1983, coroner David Blakey was told the cause of her death could not be determined.
He recorded an open verdict and her body was released for burial. In a lonely ceremony, with a hearse and bearers paid for by.
