Age: 25
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 4 Apr 1962
Crime Location: A6, Maulden Wood
Execution Place: Bedford Jail
Method: hanging
Executioner: Harry Allen
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hanratty
James Hanratty was convicted of the murder of Michael John Gregsten 34 and sentenced to death.
He had approached a car that Michael Gregsten had been in with a woman in a cornfield.
see Wikipedia
see "Hanratty Sent For Trial." Times [London, England] 6 Dec. 1961: 5. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 23 Apr. 2016.
see "A 6 Court Told Of Calls To Scotland Yard." Times [London, England] 30 Nov. 1961: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 24 Apr. 2016.
see "Antique Shop Owner Says She Gave Hanratty £500 To £600." Times [London, England] 29 Nov. 1961: 8. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 24 Apr. 2016.
see "A6 Murder Charge: Court Told Of Hair Dyeing." Times [London, England] 28 Nov. 1961: 6. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 24 Apr. 2016.
see National Archives - MEPO 2/9720, ASSI 13/534, CRIM 1/3814, DPP 2/4389
see A Calendar Of Murder, Criminal Homicide In England Since 1957, Terence Morris and Louis Blom-Cooper
