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The Hagley Woods Mystery: Bella in the Wych Elm. One Sunday morning in April 1. WW2, four teenage boys made a terrifying discovery that would baffle the police and remain a mystery for over 7. The boys were searching for birds nests at Hagley Woods, a private estate near Birmingham in England’s Midlands.

Climbing up an ancient old wych elm tree, 1. Bob Farmer saw something truly terrible. Looking down the hollowed out trunk, Farmer noticed a strange object staring back at him from the dark interior. The teenager was horrified when he realised it was a human skull.

A clump of hair hung off the remaining flesh on the forehead, and two crooked teeth gaped out of the mouth. Watch Cannibal Holocaust Streaming. After the boys had a good look at their horrific find, they put it back in the tree and left the woods.

The skull found by the 4 boys. They agreed amongst themselves not to tell anyone about their discovery.

They were trespassing in the woods, poaching no less. If they told the police they could be in big trouble. But one of the boys was so upset by what he saw he told his father and the police were soon called to the area.

What they found inside the old tree trunk was bizarre. The skeleton of a young woman, minus one of her hands. A piece of taffeta was stuffed in the skull’s mouth.

Some scraps of clothes with the labels cut out, battered shoes and a gold ring were also found in the tree. Nearby were the bones of the woman’s hand, scattered next to the tree. The police were troubled by the unusual circumstances of the woman’s death, were sinister forces at work in Hagley wood? Pathologist James Webster was able to determine the victim had died around 1. Police sketch of the murder scene and victim. Webster could find no obvious injuries and concluded she had probably died as a result of the cloth stuffed down her throat. He also believed she had been placed in the tree shortly after death because the space was so tight inside she would not have fitted once rigor mortis had set in.

From Webster’s work, the police managed to create a detailed description of the woman. But nobody came forward and a search of 3. A nationwide search of dental practices also drew a blank. The woman had had dental work done within a year of her death, but there was not a trace of her presence at any surgery.

The flurry of press interest soon faded. The travails of the war were at the centre of most people’s thoughts. The area had suffered 3 years of Luftwaffe bombing and life was hard.

As Christmas 1. 94. Until the graffiti started.“Who put Luebella down the wych–elm?” the first one said. Then “Hagley Wood Bella”. Soon it settled on “Who put Bella in the wych–elm?”. The graffiti appeared on walls throughout the West Midlands, seemingly by the same hand. Someone, it seemed, knew more than they were letting on.

One of the first pieces of graffiti was found around Christmas 1. From then on, the woman found in the old elm at Hagley would be known as Bella, even by the police. But they were never able to find who was responsible for the graffiti and were no closer to answering its question. Was the writer of the graffiti taunting the police?

Had they killed Bella or knew who had? Folklorist Margaret Murray suggested Bella may have been killed in an occult ceremony, the removal of the hand typical of a black magic execution.

The theory that Bella had fallen victim to a coven of witches was popular for a while, but with the absence of any genuine leads from the police the case eventually went cold. It wasn’t until 1. Wilfred Byford- Jones started to write about the old case in the Wolverhampton Express and Star, that interest was revived.

Byford- Jones would soon receive the first solid lead in nearly a decade. A letter, signed only Anna, offered new details of what had happened to Bella. According to the letter, Bella had been murdered because of her involvement with a Nazi spy ring operating in the Midlands in the early 1.

Equipment seized from a Nazi spy ring in England in 1. The spy theory seemed more rooted in reality than talk of witchcraft. Hundreds of German spies were captured in Britain during the war, and the Midlands would have been a valuable source of intelligence because of its prevalence of munitions factories. Was Bella in the wych elm part of a Nazi spy ring?

Evidence for. The spy ring. Journalist Wilfred Byford- Jones received a letter in 1. Anna of Claverly’, claiming Bella had died after getting involved with a WW2 Nazi spy ring.“Finish your articles re the Wych Elm crime by all means. They are interesting to your readers, but you will never solve the mystery.“The one person who could give the answer is now beyond the jurisdiction of the earthly courts. The affair is closed and involves no witches, black magic or moonlight rites…”Byford- Jones was naturally intrigued.

Whoever wrote those words clearly had first- hand knowledge of what had happened. After subsequent correspondence, Anna revealed herself to be Una Mossop and told the full story. Was Bella a Nazi spy? Her husband Jack had worked at a local munitions factory in the early 1.

Dutchman. Jack later admitted to Una that the Dutchman was a Nazi agent. Jack had been passing him information about local industrial sites, which in turn was passed to another agent posing as a cabaret performer at local theatres. The Midlands had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe in the early 4.

Nazis to target their raids where they would do the most damage to Britain’s war effort. One day Jack met his contact at a pub close to Hagley Wood. He was arguing with a Dutch Woman. He ordered Jack drive them both out to the Clent Hills, but the argument had grown extremely violent and the Dutch agent strangled the woman in the car.

Fearing for his own life, Jack helped carry the body into nearby Hagley Wood, where the pair buried it in the hollow of the old elm tree. Una’s husband was apparently so traumatized by the brutal murder of Bella that he had a nervous breakdown, tormented by horrific visions of a woman’s skull in a tree.

Jack was institutionalized in 1. The timescales fitted quite well with Bella’s death. The pathologist had estimated it was about 1. The Midlands was a major target for the Nazi Luftwaffe during the war. The information Una gave Byford- Jones was convincing enough that the police and MI5 got involved.

According to the journalist, they verified some details of Una’s account but were unable to find any of the remaining perpetrators. With the involvement of the intelligence services, some have speculated there may have been a cover- up over the investigation of the information. Watch Alter Egos Streaming. Just 8 years after the war, details of spy rings may have still been classified.

The cover- up theory was also bolstered by the curious fact that Bella’s remains had gone missing, precluding any further forensic examinations. The story faded back into semi- obscurity. An occasional piece of graffiti would briefly revive interest, but there were no new leads for another 1. Donald Mc. Cormick. Mc. Cormick’s ‘Murder by Witchcraft’, despite its name, built upon the spy ring theory.

Mc. Cormick had obtained Abwehr files, the records of German Military intelligence. According to Mc. Cormick’s information, A Nazi agent by the name of Lehrer was operating in the Midlands in 1. Dutch girlfriend living in Birmingham called Clarabella Dronkers. Was Clarabella the Bella found in the wych elm?

Like Bella, she was about 3. Bella, she apparently had crooked teeth.

What’s especially suggestive about the identification is that a real Nazi spy was captured in mid- 1. Wandsworth prison on New Year's Eve that year. His name was Johannes Marinus Dronkers. Was there a spy ring operating in the area? Was Bella this Dutch spy’s wife? The wedding ring found with her body lends credence to the idea. And if Bella was a foreigner, it would explain why no trace of her could be found in England.

It’s possible that some kind of love triangle had developed amongst the agents, or that Bella had grown loose lipped and risked revealing their existence to the British authorities.