Murder most foul on Queen Elizabeth’s estate

[Little Tich]

Source: Salt Lake Tribune / AP

A murder mystery with elements of an Agatha Christie whodunit is unfolding at the vast country estate where Queen Elizabeth II and her family gathered in rural splendor to celebrate Christmas and New Year’s.

British police said that a young woman’s body was found in the forest at Sandringham and that they are treating it as a murder case.

An autopsy was conducted Tuesday, but the precise cause of death was not disclosed, and investigators have yet to establish the woman’s identity.

The royal family is not implicated in the crime in any way.

Read more: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/53224915-68/body-queen-sandringham-police.html.csp

[Ecumenist]

1. Would they admit it even if they thought it was the case?

I say that anything is possible and everyone is on the hotseat until otherwise proven innocent.

[unkachuck]

2. where was Queen Elizabeth....

....on the 'night of the murder'? I know if a body was found on my property, I would certainly be questioned.

[TheDebbieDee]

3. It was Prince Phillip, in the library, with a candlestick..............

[Octafish]

5. Phil has an alibi...

...emergency heart procedure.

Or, so they say.

[TheDebbieDee]

6. Oh. Well it must've been Prince Charles, then...........

[Octafish]

8. Absolutely right. The jug-eared wastrel got away with it before.

Teen princess never knew what she was getting into.

[Skittles]

4. my grandmother used to take me to Sandringham for tea

seriously

I swear I kicked no ass there though - I was a child

[applegrove]

7. Part of the estate is open to the public. That is where the body was found.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. 2 possible victims - 1 case already has suspect charged for murder

Detectives are examining the cases of two missing women from Cambridgeshire as they seek to identify human remains found on the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.

Alisa Dmitrijeva, 17, from Wisbech, and Vitalija Baliutaviciene, 29, from Peterborough, both vanished in August last year.
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Police believe the body had been in situ between one and four months.

Both of the woman were last seen in August last year. A man has been charged with murder over the disappearance of Miss Baliutaviciene.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-16407185

[joshcryer]

10. They should put Sherlock on this!

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Sandringham body identified as missing Latvian student

Norfolk police say the remains are those of Alisa Dmitrijeva, a 17-year-old Latvian student who went missing from her home in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, in August.

The teenager's family, who moved to the UK three years ago, said in a statement that they were devastated by the news and asked to be allowed to grieve in private.
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Dmitrijeva was last seen in Friars Street, King's Lynn, on 31 August. She was reported missing by a family member a week later.

Since then, there had been a number of unconfirmed sightings, and police had offered a £5,000 reward for information on her whereabouts. At the time of her disappearance, detectives said they wanted to trace the movements of a P-registered green Lexus GS300.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/08/sandringham-body-identified-latvian-student?newsfeed=true

[dipsydoodle]

12. Two tragedies

and all we get here are mainly dumb fucking remarks including the headline.

[Blue_Tires]

13. As a former newspaper guy, I just want to say

the headline and lede stretch the bounds of professionalism and really cheapens the story...