In the years that followed Pamela’s case dropped from the headlines, replaced by stories of carnage that spread across Europe and Asia. China was soon consumed by a full-scale Japanese invasion, and the brutal killing of one innocent was but a precursor to the deaths of many more. The investigation, headed by an unusual pairing of a local Chinese police colonel with a Scotland Yard veteran, foundered. The crime shocked the city’s Chinese and foreign residents, and newspapers worldwide carried details of the grisly murder. An expensive platinum and diamond watch was still on her wrist, discounting robbery as a motive. She had been bludgeoned and repeatedly stabbed, her heart and other organs removed and her body drained of blood.
Follow a frigid winter morning in 1937, an old man walking near the Fox Tower of Peking’s crumbling city wall discovered the body of Pamela Werner, a 19-year-old English student.
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