Norfolk headless body

Although the woman has never been identified, one theory being investigated is that she was a sex worker known as "The Duchess" who worked the Great Yarmouth docks under that pseudonym prior to her disappearance in mid-1974.

"[2] The body was discovered near a track leading to Brake Hill Farm, Brandon Road, within Cockley Cley.

They established that she was right-handed, had probably given birth,[8] had consumed water found in Scotland and that fish and crabs formed an important part of her diet.

[7][10] In 2009, police began to examine serial killer Peter Tobin's links to Norfolk via Operation Anagram, to determine whether he could have been involved in the case, or in any other unsolved murders in the county.

[11] After the woman's remains were exhumed in 2008, samples of her toenails, hair and thigh bone were subjected to DNA and isotopic analysis.

A full DNA profile of the victim was obtained but there was no match with any database, but the independent isotopic analyses carried out by professor Wolfram Meier-Augenstein and another scientist, which looks at the traces left in the body from the water consumed during a person's lifetime, both indicated that she was probably from the central Europe area including Denmark, Germany, Austria and northern Italy.

She had lived for four or five months in the dockers' hut at the Ocean terminal,[8] and is believed to have also spent time in custody, although contemporary records from this era have been destroyed, and thus the police still do not know this woman's real name.