Vera Page Case

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The Vera Page Case was an unsolved murder case from the early 1930s. Vera Page was born in 1920 in Notting Hill, London. On December 14, 1931, Miss Page was reported missing by her parents in London. Two days later, her raped and strangled body was found in the bushes by a house at Addison Road, near the victim's own house. The police thought she had been murdered somewhere else and then dragged into the growth alongside the road. The remains were examined by Sir Bernard Spilsbury. He discovered coal-dust and candle wax on the girl's body, as well as a piece of ammonia-stained cloth^{[citation needed]}. Over a thousand people were questioned about the Vera Page case, and Percy Orlando Rush was the prime suspect. Rush was a forty year-old married man, who had been seen near the scene of the crime on 16 December. He was never officially charged with murder, but is highly likely he was the murderer.^{[citation needed]} He died in 1961.