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Historic Homicide Burial Search in Rural Woodland

SSRN, ISSN: 1556-5068
2023
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    192
    • Abstract Views
      158
    • Downloads
      34

Article Description

The cold case search for clandestine graves can be challenging due to the time elapsed since the crime and the search environment. This paper reports on a cold case search for a young girl who was reported missing in the mid 1970s in the East Midlands, UK. Once a search area was determined by case reports in undulating woodland, a ground search proved unsuccessful; therefore, a multi-phased geoscientific investigation (using remote sensing and UAV drones, metal detector, EM and dGPS surveys) was carefully collected, analysed and interpreted with anomalies then intrusively investigated. Results showed 36 isolated metal detector and 3 EM priority targets which were intrusively investigated and recovered onsite but nothing case relevant was found. Study implications suggest careful multi-phase geoscientific investigations can give confidence in a cold case no-body result, thus effectively saving Police time and costs in further investigations.

Bibliographic Details

Jamie K. Pringle; Alastair Ruffell; Kristopher D. Wisniewski; Ben Davenward; Vivienne Heaton; Luke Hobson

Elsevier BV

Multidisciplinary; geoscience; cold case; EM; metal detection; dGPS

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