Clent Hills

They may have thought that it was an issue of national security.

There had recently been reports of a German parachute found in the Clint Hills, close to Hagley Wood.

Could the authorities have suspected a link between the parachute and the body found in the tree? News of the discovery of a body soon spread around the area and the newspapers were quick to run with the story.

I was at school and it was in the local press, the County Express.

So the idea that they had sent over Clara Bauerle as a spy was not outside the realm of possibility, for sure.

And the area around Birmingham was definitely of interest to the Germans.

There was a belief that a parachute had been discovered, that it was a German manufacturer, that somebody had parachuted into the West Midlands, close to the Clint Hills, and that that person was at large, because they were never discovered.

Dr. Webster's pathology report had estimated the date of death of the woman found in Hagley Wood to be between 1940 and 1941.