Murder of Carol Wardell

Who is Murder of Carol Wardell?

Carol Wardell was a 39 year old building society manager from Meriden in the West Midlands of England. On the morning of Monday, 12 September 1994 her body was discovered by a passing motorist on a grass verge on Weddington Road just north of Nuneaton in the Warwickshire countryside.

Following the discovery, detectives went to Carol Wardell's home and found her husband Gordon Wardell bound and gagged and in a state of distress. Staff at The Woolwich building society in Nuneaton, where Carol Wardell was branch manager, also contacted police to report that they couldn't enter the building because she had failed to turn up for work. Staff reported that the branch appeared to have been ransacked.