A British woman disappeared 52 years ago, Sheila Foxnow 68 years old, was found alive and well after the police published an appeal with a grainy photograph of her, thus solving one of the longest unsolved missing persons cases in the history of the country. United Kingdom. Fox vanished into thin air at 16 while living with his parents in the English town of Coventryway back in 1972. Among the hypotheses made then for the decision to leave everything which upset her family, that of a relationship started with a mature man, reiterated in these hours by some tabloids.
The police of West Midlands had recently decided to reopen the “cold case” with an initiative focused on social media and capable of reaching many people, even the person directly interested. Little information about him has emerged for privacy reasons: Fox currently lives in another part of the Kingdom, therefore far from his city of origin.
“A single photo of Sheila from around the time of her disappearance was found by investigating officers and published on our website and social media. Within hours of the appeal, several people provided information which led our unit to her,” a police spokesperson said.
After the surprising news of the discovery of Sheila Foxwho disappeared 52 years ago, the spotlight is back on another long-standing case, that of another Sheila Fox English, disappeared during the Second World War at the age of six. Little Sheila, originally from Farnworth, Lancashirewas last seen on August 18, 1944 leaving school. Witnesses at the time reported seeing her in the company of a man on a bicycle, but from that day on she never returned home.
Despite decades of research and investigation, the case remained unsolved. Sheila was nicknamed “The Girl in the Green Mac” by the media, and his case was treated as a missing person in the absence of definitive evidence of murder or the discovery of his body. In 1948, authorities attempted to link his disappearance to a man suspected of other crimes, but without success.
Interest in the case was reignited in 2001, when police received new information regarding the case Richard Ryana resident of the area at the time of Sheila’s disappearance. Ryan, with a history of violence, was suspected of having played a role in the little girl’s disappearance. Excavations conducted at his property in 2001, however, did not uncover any evidence that could link him to the case.
Sheila’s family and neighbors, deeply affected by her passing, maintained hope and continued to speculate about her fate for years. This case, like that of Sheila Fox found after decades, remains one of the deepest and most painful mysteries in British criminal history.