How old was Ann Ogilby at the time she died in the "Romper Room murder"?
Murder of Ann Ogilby
Ogilby, aged 31 or 32 at the time of her death,[4][5] was buried in Umgall Cemetery, Templepatrick, County Antrim. Her children Sharlene and Derek were put into care. The Ogilby family received only £149 compensation from the State to cover her funeral expenses.[6] It was later revealed that Ogilby had planned to relocate to Edinburgh, Scotland as soon as her infant son, Derek, was released from hospital (on account of his premature birth).[6]
Anthony Gilbert (author)
Her novel "The Vanishing Corpse" (1941) was adapted as the film "They Met in the Dark" (1943), another novel, "The Mouse Who Wouldn't Play Ball" was filmed as "Candles at Nine" in 1944, and her novel on abduction and a faked identity, "The Woman in Red", which features Arthur Crook and his assistant Bill Parsons (1941), was adapted as the 1945 film noir, "My Name Is Julia Ross." "You'll Be the Death of Me," an October 1963 episode of "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour," was adapted from Gilbert's short story "The Goldfish Button" in the February 1958 "Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine". Her short stories "Door to a Different World" and "Fifty Years After" were Edgar Award nominees.