On the evening of the 23rd of October 1958
At Braintree Station in Essex
A very alarming event
Was overheard on the loudspeakers
A woman’s scream
Stop it Jack you are hurting me
Then another scream
And then the sound of somebody falling on to a wooden floor
The strange thing is that despite extensive police enquiries
No evidence of a violent crime
In the vicinity of either the station
Or within the immediate area
Was ever uncovered
The story in time faded from view
That was until June 1999
When strange sounds were heard coming from Alcock Terrace
Which was a row of Victorian Railway Cottages
This was again investigated but nothing was found
And as before the story faded from view
But it was brought screaming to the surface
On the afternoon of the 9th of July 2021
When during the demolition of Alcock Terrace
A skeleton was found buried in the cellar of number six
It was later confirmed that this was the skeleton of Muriel Tapper
Who had disappeared from her home in Witham in 1956
On further examination it was found that the victim
Had died from a severe blow to the back of her head
Her husband Jack Tapper who was a person of interest
Had emigrated to Australia in 1959 and was last heard of in 1970
Police investigations soon stalled due to this and the amount of time
That had elapsed since the murder
And the case was shelved as unsolved earlier this year
No reasonable explanation has ever been presented as to why
The loudspeakers picked up Muriel Tapper’s last moments
On that chilly October evening in 1958
This remains a mystery