August Sangret, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

August Sangret

Canadian murderer

Date of Birth: 28-Aug-1913

Place of Birth: Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada

Date of Death: 29-Apr-1943

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About August Sangret

  • August Sangret (28 August 1913 – 29 April 1943) was a French-Canadian soldier, convicted and subsequently hanged for the September 1942 murder of 19-year-old Joan Pearl Wolfe in Surrey, England.
  • This murder case is also known as the Wigwam Murder.The murder of Joan Pearl Wolfe became known as "the Wigwam Murder" due to the fact the victim had become known among locals as "the Wigwam Girl" through her living in two separate, improvised wigwams upon Hankley Common in the months preceding her murder, and that these devices proved to have been constructed by her murderer."The Wigwam Murder" marked the first occasion in British legal history in which a murder victim's skull was introduced as evidence at trial, and has been described by true crime author Colin Wilson as "The last of the classic cases."

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