Horror, Sleaze and Trash.

On the morning of 28 August, 1981, police in North Yorkshire received an anonymous phone call from a man detailing where they could find a “decomposed body.” True to his word, police discovered the skeletal remains of a middle aged woman, hidden in a patch of rose bay willow herb. It was established that the deceased woman was between 38 to 40 years old, was approximately 5′2″, had dark hair, and had given birth to at least three children in her lifetime. She had been dead for up to two years; however the cause of death could not be determined. Since nobody was coming forward to identify the woman, a wax head was created from her likeness, thus earning her the moniker “Wax Head Woman.” Despite numerous theories and leads, the identity of this luckless woman and her cause of death was never uncovered.  “The whole thing was very sad and it is still a great disappointment to me that we could never put a name to her,”said a veteran detective who worked on the case.