Given that it is Valentine's Day, I thought an unsolved mystery from Valentine's Day would be fun. I did some extensive research, and all the mysteries of Valentine's Day that I could find were either murders or disappearances. I decided to pick this certain murder because it has gone unsolved for so long and it is filled with some strange happenings.
February 14th, 1945
In the quiet town of Warwickshire, England the somberness was disturbed by a truly disturbing murder. A 74-year-old laborer by the name of Charles Walton was found dead on a farm known as "The Firs". When the body was discovered, he had a pitchfork plunged through his neck, effectively pinning his body to the ground.
This was an extremely gruesome murder in that the killer had beaten Charles with a stick severely, and had slashed his throat with a slash hook. The final coup-de-grace was when the killer plunged the pitchfork down and pinned the body by the neck.
To ripen this horrific murder to a true mystery is what was supposedly seen and surmised from the circumstances. Some reports said that the sign of the cross was carved into the victim's throat and that a large black dog had been seen in close proximity to the death which led some to believe that there was a possibility of witchcraft being involved in the gruesome act. Some went so far to say that this heinous murder could possibly have been a blood sacrifice. And I thought most of the witchcraft killings went out after the 1600's? Maybe not, oh well, I digress...
Despite extensive investigation by Scotland Yard and no forensic evidence or motive linking the farms owner to the murder, this has been an open and unsolved case for the past 72 years. It goes down as a Valentine's Day History's Mystery.
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