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Sixty-five years after a female body was found hidden under leaves in a corner of a cemetery in Hampstead, London, police are still hopeful of solving the mystery surrounding the death of the woman – the estranged wife of a civil servant from Pembroke Dock. Called by the press The Skeleton in the Cemetery Mystery , the discovery of the remains of 49-year-old Marion Gwendolen Duignan made headlines in 1956, and is still a talking point in the Hampstead area to this day. It was on Saturday February 25, 1956 that a gravedigger discovered a decomposed body under a holly bush in a remote part of historic Hampstead Cemetery. He called the police and a murder investigation was launched.