Fred the Head

The body was discovered at the site of the former flint mill at the west end of the footbridge. Shown here on a 1944-1973 Ordnance Survey map.

Fred the Head is the popular name of an unidentified young white adult male found – deceased, naked, and bound – on the site of an abandoned flint mill in Burton upon Trent, England, in 1971. A number of investigations have failed to identify the body and it is now the oldest unsolved missing persons case in Staffordshire.