Murder in the Woods: The Forgotten Case of the Wigwam Girl
News of the Times | Episode 513 | 1942
[In one of wartime Britain’s most haunting and tragically overlooked murder cases, 19-year-old Joan Pearl Wolfe—forever remembered as the "Wigwam Girl"—is found hastily buried on Hankley Common.

Who was this quiet, vulnerable girl? And why was a Canadian soldier—August Sangret—accused of her brutal killing?

With love letters, forensic breakthroughs, and courtroom drama that gripped the nation, this is a tale of young love turned deadly.

Betrayal, mystery, and murder beneath the heather.

Settle in for a powerful story of justice and sorrow, told straight from the original 1940s news reports—untouched, unfiltered, and heartbreakingly real.
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