#370 - The Biggest Gamble (Mabel Tattershaw & Herbert Mills, Nottingham)

On Friday the 3rd of August 1951, 49-year-old housewife, Mabel Tattershaw went out on a date with 19-year-old Herbert Mills. She was smitten with him, but as a chronic gambler who was obsessed with making an easy fortune, smashing the authorities and beating the odds, she had no idea that she would be the part of his plan to place the biggest gamble of his life.

Location: 'The Jungle' nearby Woodthorpe Park, Nottingham. Date: Friday the 3rd of August 1951 post 9pm (murder)Victims:Mabel TattershawCulprit: Herbert Leonard Mills

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