Detective Superintendent Barkway , who is leading the inquiries into the murder of the Dutch girl , Mary Kriek , this afternoon visited the United States Air Force Base at Bentwaters , near Ipswich . Mary was found battered to death in a ditch at Boxted , Essex , after leaning a bus ten miles away to walk to Bull Banks Farm where Mary was employed . A portrait of Mary Kriek , the murdered girl . 8 January 1958