Freda Green and the Wark Forest man

able to help. Many of you tagged me in the news of the case of Sheila Fox, a sixteen year old teenager that went missing in nineteen seventy two from Coventry. Due to a social media appeal by West Midlands Police, she was found fifty two years after she went missing. She was alive and well and they were able to close the case. This was so heartening for me many other people who regularly share these appeals because it means they really work. So I wanted to do the same

for these two cases today. One case is a missing person and another is an unidentified person. This episode does not contain any graphic descriptions of violence. However, listener discretion is always advised. Brailey Hill is a town in Dudley in the West Midlands. The area has been known for its glass and steel manufacturing, and this area was very highly industrialized. As such, many people moved to this area

in the past to find employment in these industries. These jobs, however, began to decline during the nineteen seventies and today this is not the main farm of employment for many people in the area. In nineteen seventy two, twenty two year old free de Green lived in Brayley Hill on John Street. Today John Street appears to be a residential road filled with terrace and semi detached houses as well as bungalows. Freeda lived here with her parents and she had a

job at a company called Stephen and Williams. Stephen and Williams is one of the oldest glass making companies in the UK and his starts to have existed as a company since seventeen seventy six. It was located in Brayley Hill and so was the perfect place to get a job during the nineteen seventies for local people. Frieda worked there as a glass polisher. On April the second, nineteen seventy two, Frieda left her home in John Street as usual. She did not return home that day and her parents

were quickly worried that something had happened to her. It appears from the small bit of information that's available out there that this was out of character, as her parents reported her missing to police very quickly after she didn't return. Freda was twenty two at this point and was an adult, but still the fact that she had left without saying anything to her parents was unusual and this was concerning

for those that knew her. There is very little that has been published about Freda recently or in local newspapers at the time, so it's difficult to say what has been done in the investigation to try and locate her. It was known that Freda liked to visit the local pub, which was called the New Inn on Dudley Road in Brayley Hill. This pub is now known as the Dog and Lamp. It was clear that she was known to people in the pub and may have been a regular

customer there. Freda's described as around five feet four inches tall with blue eyes. She wore glasses and had distinctive operation scars on the insteps of both of her feet. West Midland's Police have recently done an appeal to try and find Freda, as the fourteenth of February twenty twenty five would mark her seventy fifth birthday and its hope that this new appeal made jogs one's memory of her

or of the time that she went missing. They have stated that since April the second, nineteen seventy two, there has been no trace of Frieda at all, that it appears that she just vanished without a trace. They also released a photograph of her from when she was around fifteen or sixteen years old, and again it was hoped that someone would remember something relevant about her. As a result, Freda's case has become one of the longest running in

West Midland's police history. As I mentioned at the beginning, there is hope with Sheila Fox being found after the same number of years and by the same police force, and I'm sure that they are hopeful that they may have the same look with Freda's case. The police said if you remember any piece of detail, no matter how small, contact our Missing Person's Investigation Unit and zero one two one six two six seven zero zero three. This is so crucial and if you know anything at all then

please contact police. I will also link Freda's missing person profile in the show notes for you to have a look at. We may still be able to find out what happened to Frieda and where she went. The other case we're going to be covering today is an unidentified person case. Walk Forest is the southern part of Kilda Forest in Northumberland. Kilda Forest is the largest man made forest in England and is well known for kild Or Observatory, as the area is famous for its dark skies. It

sits along the Anglo Scottish border. At around two pm on the second of February nineteen ninety, a forest worker in Walk Forest was working in the area when he came across an unexpected and shocking discovery, found the body of a man. This discovery was quickly reported and investigators came out to the scene to assess it. A post Marten examination of the man found that he was between twenty and forty years old and was around five feet

six to five feet eight inches tall. He was of a medium build and was described as having a dark European ethnicity. It was found that he may have died between four and twelve months before his body was recovered. Identification was very quickly an issue, given that this man didn't have any formal idea on him, and there was nothing in particular that pointed to a name or a location of where he might have come from. The post Marten could also not establish the man's cause of death,

but it was described as not suspicious. Newspaper reports at the time talk about him as being a rambler, which may have been inferred from the clothes that the man was wearing when his body was found. He was wearing high Tech brand brown walking boots, a Lee brand denim jacket, along with a green vander brand and a rack. An interesting piece of information was that the left boot was a size eight and the right boot was an eight and a half. His clothing indicated that he'd intentionally come

out in the forest and was prepared for it. His possessions also seemed to suggest this. He had a blue backpack with a green base, and inside it it had two blue nylon ropes, a great arch camping equipment, and a Swiss army knife. He also had a blue or black holdall bag with some spare clothes, blue jeans, black running shorts, white underwear, a call Master bush hat, and a vixed signe X spray. In addition, he had an afro comb brown money belt, two finger bandages and a

book called The History of London by Robert Gray. As well as this, he had two half liter bottles, one had water inside and one had whiskey. Locate International have noted that while there was no cause of death found, the man had an enlarged liver, meaning he may have been alcohol dependent. Missing person reports were searched throughout the UK in the hope that they might match someone with that description. The police also created a facial reconstruction and

sent this to newspapers to distribute to the public. This strategy seemed to work, as reportedly a woman got in touch with the police. She was a hotel worker in the area of Haltwhistle in Northumberland. She worked at the Bow's Hotel and explained that the reconstruction looked a lot like a guest who had checked into the hotel on the fourteenth of October nineteen eighty nine, around four months

before the body had been found. She said he was a man in his late thirties who had an American accent. There was further intrigue as a book that was found at the scene matched a book that had been missing from the hotel. It's reported on Locate International's website that there were further records of a man with that name making a book in at Hexham Tourist Information Center on the eighteenth of October nineteen eighty nine. After this, though

the paper trail for Christopher Oliver disappears. A newspaper report from the ninth of February nineteen ninety in the Aberdeen Presson Journal indicated that this unidentified man could in fact be the same Christopher Oliver. There has, however, been no confirmation that these people were the same, and it's still unclear how if they are linked. There is a new appeal for information in this case, with Locate International creating a new living depiction of the walk Forest man. From

this he may be recognizable to someone. They would like to know if anyone recognizes the image, the description of the man or the name Christopher Oliver. This man may have been American given the description from the hotel worker. They have also put some important questions on the appeal. They have asked anyone to come forward if they know

any of the answers to these questions. Do you remember someone fitting this description in the Northumberland area around nineteen ninety did you stay in our near Bo's Hotel on or around the fourteenth of October nineteen eighty nine. Do you recognize him or did you speak with him? Do you remember anybody with a North American accent traveling around Northumberland at the time. Did you maybe drive a taxi or know someone who did at the time and could

you have picked him up? Did you work at Hexham Tourist Information Center or do you know someone that did. Does he remind you of someone you once knew and have now lost touch with. Does the name Christopher Oliver mean anything to you? This case is certainly intriguing, but I always think someone must know this man. There must be family members out there who remember someone going missing

around nineteen eighty nine. As Locate International state, this man would be between the ages of fifty five to seventy five years old if alive today, and so identifying people who knew him or remember that time is becoming more difficult as time passes, but there will be someone with information out there. I will link this man's case on Locate International's website along with the image. Thank you for

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