DAY TWENTY-FOUR

THURSDAY

A burial took place at the private plot of the Special Air Service Regiment near their base at Hereford. The body of an old soldier was laid to rest. There was a bugler who played the Last Post and a salvo over the grave. About a dozen attended, including a noted barrister.

That evening, two bodies were recovered from a lake near Wanstead Marshes, east London. They were identified as those of Mr. Mark Price and Mr. Harry Cornish. The pathologist recorded that both men had died of ligature strangulation and that the instrument, most unusually, appeared to be piano wire.

The file on the case was opened, but never closed.