[1] 34 years old, Heath had been medically discharged from the British Army after being wounded in the evacuation of Dunkirk and at the time of his death was working as an unlicensed taxi driver.
He was eventually caught because the car was still in his possession; to the American CID he tried to pass himself off with his alias as Lt Ricky Allen 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment; his real identity was established.
In the meantime Jones had gone to her local police station in Hammersmith and admitted to the crimes, to ease her conscience, before being taken to Staines to be charged with the murder.
Mr Justice Charles sentenced them to be hanged,[4] but while Hultén was executed at Pentonville Prison on 8 March 1945, Jones was reprieved after a recommendation of mercy from the jury.
[5] Jones's reprieve caused some controversy, because many people considered the crimes to be cowardly, and in a war-torn Britain where everyone was pulling together to face a common enemy, almost treasonous.
It also featured in a 1952 episode of Whitehall 1212 (radio show) called 'The Murder of Charles Brooks'[7] A film, Chicago Joe and the Showgirl was made in 1990, based on the story, directed by Bernard Rose, written by David Yallop, and starring Emily Lloyd as Elizabeth Jones, Kiefer Sutherland as Karl, and Patsy Kensit.