Olive Balchin

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Olive Balchin (c. 1906-October 20, 1946) was a British murder victim whose body was found near a bomb site in Manchester, England. The murder weapon, a bloodstained hammer of a leather beaters, was found nearby. After a lenghly investigation, police were given a description of the man who purchased the hammer from a local shopkeeper. Comparing the description with eyewitness accounts of a man last seen in the company of Balchin on the night of her murder. Based on this information, police eventually questioned Walter Graham Rowland and, after a forensic examination of his clothes showed bloodstains matching the blood type of Balchin as well as dust particles traced to the bomb site, police arrested Rowland for her murder for which he was convicted and hanged at Strangeways Prison on February 27, 1947.

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