There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

When police arrives, I found the telephones and electricity lines.

We have a weird homicide.

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

A cup of murder...

Some mysteries are doomed to remain so.

On August 28, 1981, a strange phone call ignited a decades-long investigation

into who the victim was and how she died. So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled,

sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. On August 28, 1981,

Constable John Jeffreys of the Rapan police in North Yorkshire

received a phone call from a man he later described

as well-spoken with a trace of a local accent,

telling him, quote,

near Scotton Moore House,

you will find a decomposed body among the willow

herbs. Asking for his name and address, the caller said that he could not give this information

for, quote, reasons of national security, and abruptly terminated the call before any further

information could be gleaned. Following the bizarre caller's instructions during the less than a minute he was on the phone,

Constable Jeffries arrived at the location, but failed to find this supposed body.

However, after combing through the brush a little bit closer, right underneath a large

bed of Rose Bay Willow, the officer looked down

and found what appeared to be human bones. Though the remains were found near the entrance

...