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we're on our season break, the team

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behind They Walk Among Us would like

1:22

to highlight a case that remains unsolved.

1:25

Today's episode is a replay of

1:27

Season 6, Episode 31, in which

1:29

we covered the murder of Tina

1:31

Bell. Thanks for

1:33

listening. And They Walk Among Us will

1:35

be back for Season 9 on April 3. Welcome

1:52

to Season 6, Episode 31 of

1:54

They Walk Among Us. A

1:58

podcast dedicated to the world. to UK

2:01

true crime. This

2:07

episode contains distressing

2:10

themes and descriptions of

2:13

violence. This podcast is intended

2:15

for a mature audience.

2:18

Listener caution is advised.

2:23

They walk among us is part of the

2:26

creator network. One

2:51

of the most significant murder

2:53

investigations in Cleveland police history

2:55

remains unsolved after three decades.

2:59

Some believe they know who is

3:01

responsible and the killer

3:04

or killers are likely to have

3:06

committed more crimes. Will

3:09

the truth ever be uncovered? April

3:23

21st 1990 almost a week after Easter

3:29

on a spring day two

3:31

teenagers were trying to shoot

3:33

pigeons on waste ground around

3:36

the ICI Castleworks plant in

3:38

Billingham County Durham. As

3:41

they walked across the empty plot

3:43

of land they stumbled upon something

3:46

that caught their eye. Unusual

3:49

among the scenery the

3:52

mass before them was

3:54

bones. It was obvious by their

3:57

size they were not that of a bird or

3:59

a small mouse. After

4:02

processing what they had seen, the

4:05

two youths decided to call the police.

4:10

Investigators tasked with attending the

4:12

scene recovered what appeared to

4:14

be on initial inspection, the

4:17

human skull, lower

4:19

jawbone, the shoulder blade

4:22

and the collarbone. An

4:25

extensive search of the surrounding area

4:27

was launched to try and uncover

4:29

any further parts of the incomplete

4:32

skeleton. Perhaps

4:34

officers would find clues that might hint

4:36

at the identity of who the bones

4:38

belong to. The

4:41

human remains detection dock, a

4:44

highly skilled border collie named Jill,

4:47

was brought in from the West Yorkshire

4:49

police force. Teams

4:52

of officers scoured the Billingham Beck

4:54

area over a half a mile

4:56

radius in hopes

4:58

of finding something but

5:01

no further remains were located. The

5:05

land belonged to the ICI

5:07

Castleworks plant, one

5:09

of the largest synthetic ammonia plants

5:12

in the UK and a large

5:14

employer in the area. The

5:17

plant was particularly useful in wartime

5:20

and after the war ICI

5:22

continued to produce other materials

5:24

like plastics, aviation

5:26

fuel and fertilizer. Following

5:31

the discovery of human bones, the

5:34

Beck was drained at ICI

5:36

Castleworks expense. However

5:39

the police did not find any

5:41

more remains. After

5:45

assessing the skull and other bones, it

5:48

was thought they belonged to a young

5:50

female. When

5:53

police cross-referenced missing person reports in

5:55

the area, they learned

5:57

that an 18-year-old had gone missing for

5:59

from her home a year earlier, just

6:02

a quarter of a mile from the

6:05

location where the bones were discovered. Forensic

6:09

testing confirmed the identity of the

6:11

deceased female. In

6:15

early May 1990, results

6:17

solidified what investigators had

6:20

expected. The

6:22

remains belonged to the missing teenager

6:24

Tina Bell. Tina

6:33

Bell left her home at around 8.20pm on June

6:35

2nd 1989 to meet a friend. She

6:42

promised her younger brother John that she

6:44

would be back in time to camp

6:46

out in the back garden with him

6:49

at their home on Crescent Avenue in

6:51

Billingham. John

6:53

had asked his mother if he could sleep in

6:56

the garden and he was

6:58

told only on the condition that Tina would

7:00

stay with him. A

7:03

request she readily agreed to. But

7:06

Tina did not come home to

7:08

fulfill that promise. John

7:11

later said, I wanted

7:13

to camp out in the tent but

7:16

I wasn't allowed to on my own. So

7:19

Tina said she'd stay with me. I

7:21

remember I'd rigged up a little damp

7:23

pants and games. But

7:26

then she went out with her friend and

7:29

never came back. Tina

7:33

went to her friend's house on Windermere

7:35

Avenue for a couple of hours and

7:37

then left. It

7:40

would have been dark outside. Her

7:44

parents Kath and Bob were immediately

7:46

concerned for their eldest child when

7:48

she did not return home. They

7:52

reported her disappearance to the police

7:55

but like many parents of missing

7:57

teenagers, a couple

7:59

were dismissed. and told

8:01

that Tina had likely left of her

8:03

own accord and would

8:05

come back when she was ready. Kath

8:10

and her daughter had had an argument

8:13

earlier that day when Tina was asking

8:15

for money and her

8:17

mother refused. Tina's

8:20

mother was certain the police were wrong.

8:24

Tina had not taken any spare clothes

8:26

with her. She

8:28

did not have any money or

8:30

any other personal belongings that a runaway

8:32

would be inclined to take. It

8:37

was relayed that Tina was last seen

8:39

wearing blue jeans and a thorn colored

8:41

top. Her

8:43

parents were determined to find their

8:45

daughter so they

8:47

went about retracing her steps. Tina

8:52

left her friends house on

8:54

Windermere Avenue after 10pm. She

8:58

was then seen going to a flat

9:00

above a fruit shop on Mill Lane.

9:04

After midnight she was spotted close to

9:06

the bus stop between Mill Lane and

9:09

Roscoe Road, then later

9:11

walking alone across the playing field at

9:13

the other end of Mill Lane. This

9:17

was the last confirmed sighting of Tina

9:19

Bell on the night she went missing.

9:33

Tina Bell was the eldest of three

9:35

children. A

9:37

younger siblings John and Angela would

9:40

speak fondly about their sister. They

9:44

said that she was the type of girl that

9:46

would do anything for her loved ones. Her

9:51

siblings were close. John

9:54

the youngest child was five years younger

9:56

than Tina. He

9:58

later said in view with the

10:01

gazette that he was quote quite

10:04

the cocky little kid and

10:06

would get in to bother sometimes. Tina

10:10

would always help fight his battles.

10:13

Tina's sister Angela who was two

10:15

years younger said that

10:18

they fought like sisters do at that age

10:21

however Tina always stuck up for

10:23

her when they attended Revo school.

10:27

Angela recalled that Tina had a good

10:30

sense of humour and was caring. Speaking

10:34

about her sister's generous nature

10:37

Angela said that Tina would give

10:39

you the last penny in

10:41

her purse. Tina

10:46

had attended Abbey Hill school in

10:48

Billingham and was described

10:50

as being a tomboy who

10:52

felt more comfortable in the company of

10:55

boys at school rather than the girls.

10:59

She had a part-time job in Hartley

11:01

pool as a community care worker and

11:04

she missed her shift two days after she

11:06

was last seen. Her

11:09

family became even more concerned for

11:11

her welfare. As

11:14

the weeks passed the

11:16

police made contact with other agencies

11:19

to inquire if Tina had been

11:21

spotted in the neighbouring towns and

11:23

villages but nothing came

11:25

from it. Several

11:29

sightings were reported to the police

11:32

although they were unconfirmed and led

11:34

nowhere. On

11:37

one occasion Tina's mother Kath borrowed

11:39

a chair from a hair salon

11:41

in nearby Norton and

11:43

sat on the street waiting for her

11:46

daughter to pass by. In

11:50

limbo not knowing where she was or what had

11:52

happened to her Tina's father spent days and nights

11:54

walking around asking people on the street if

11:56

they had been spotted. they

12:00

had seen Tina. He

12:03

travelled to Middlesbrough to ask sex

12:05

workers if they recognized her photo.

12:10

Angela Tina's younger sister said that

12:12

she and her father Bob would

12:14

walk miles every day looking for

12:16

Tina, hoping for any

12:18

sign that the worst had not happened.

12:22

They went to an area that was known

12:24

as the Red Light District and

12:26

the Job Center to ask if

12:28

anyone recognized the quote, immature

12:31

but streetwise 18 year old.

12:36

Angela had been staying at her grandmother's

12:38

house on the night her sister went

12:40

missing. She

12:42

was racked with guilt for years that she

12:44

had not been home with Tina because

12:47

Angela felt as though Tina would not have

12:49

gone out and

12:51

in turn would not have disappeared. In

13:03

September 1989, someone

13:06

who knew Tina reported that they had

13:08

seen her standing at a bus stop

13:10

with a young woman. They

13:14

had short black hair and a

13:16

distinctive eagle tattoo on their right

13:18

hand. A

13:20

police said, several members

13:22

of the public have called to say they

13:25

might know who the woman might be and

13:28

officers are following up those leads.

13:32

Detectives appealed for the woman to come

13:34

forward but they could

13:36

not locate her. Another

13:39

witness report mentioned that a young

13:42

woman matching Tina's description was seen

13:44

arguing with a young man with

13:46

short fair hair close

13:48

to where she was last seen. The

13:52

man was described as being around 17 years

13:55

old, 5 feet 4

13:57

inches tall, Slim built

13:59

out. Wearing a shiny tracksuit

14:01

top. Jeans. And

14:03

dark brown car lengths, boats,

14:07

A police officer said. The.

14:09

Description of the girl is similar to

14:12

Tina. So. We're looking at

14:14

the possibility it may perhaps have

14:16

been tina. Is obviously

14:18

makes it all the more important the we

14:20

collect information on the to. And

14:23

my come forward said they can be

14:25

eliminated from our inquiries. Detective

14:28

Chief Inspector News I'm leading

14:30

the investigation added. I'm.

14:33

Trying to trace anyone who is in

14:35

the middle lane area on that particular

14:37

night. Or. Therefore, appeal

14:39

for this couple law Anyone who saw

14:42

this couple on the night in question

14:44

to contact me. I

14:46

would also urge anyone who has any

14:48

information with regard to be identity of

14:51

the man or woman. To.

14:53

Contact me at the incident room in

14:55

stocks. The

15:02

Bells. First Christmas without Tina

15:05

Past. My. Try to

15:07

remain strong and positive. A

15:10

sightseeing gave them renewed hope that she

15:13

would be found. a life. Of

15:15

their hearts was shattered ten months

15:18

after she vanished. And

15:20

the police knocks on that. Teen.

15:23

Assists the recall that she had gone shopping

15:25

with her mother. When

15:28

they go back to presence have a

15:30

new there were police cars and officers

15:32

outside their house. And

15:36

father told her to go upstairs.

15:39

The She would not. A

15:42

father had to break the news when he

15:44

told Angela and her mother. Seen.

15:50

A sister said they just screamed.

15:52

Overcome with grief. aren't

15:55

broken that all the time i

15:57

had been searching around the northeast

15:59

tina The remains were found

16:01

just a quarter of a mile from

16:03

home. When

16:12

the bones were discovered, the

16:14

inquiry was escalated to a

16:17

murder investigation. Forensic

16:20

analysis of the remains determined that

16:22

they had been subjected to corrosive

16:24

chemical action and appeared

16:26

to be bleached. This

16:29

indicated that whoever killed Tina Bell

16:31

had tried to dispose of her

16:33

remains by placing them in a

16:35

bath of acid. Investigators

16:39

said at the time that quote, anyone

16:42

who has had a large quantity

16:44

of chemicals stolen from the area

16:46

in the last year and not

16:49

reported the theft should do

16:51

so immediately. Investigators

16:54

urged locals to check vacant properties

16:56

they owned for signs of suspicious

16:59

activity because Tina's remains

17:01

could have been dissolved in an empty

17:03

house, a shed or

17:05

an allotment in the area. It

17:08

was unlikely this gruesome act would

17:10

have been witnessed by outsiders or

17:13

performed in a public place where it

17:16

was possible the killer could be disturbed.

17:24

Tina's family had never given up

17:26

searching for her in the 10

17:28

months between Tina's disappearance and the

17:30

discovery of her remains. The

17:34

police appealed for a lorry driver who

17:36

was seen parked in the Mill Street

17:38

area to come forward so

17:40

they could be excluded from the inquiry.

17:44

The vehicle was seen parked close

17:46

to Rydell Avenue and

17:48

the fruit shop Tina was last seen

17:51

visiting the night she went missing. The

17:54

investigators said that the driver of the lorry

17:57

had been described as being between 20 to

17:59

15 minutes. to 25 years old

18:02

with short dark hair. The

18:05

vehicle's trailer was covered with

18:07

tarpaulin. Officers

18:09

thought it was likely the driver had

18:11

slept in the cab on the night

18:14

of Tina's disappearance. A

18:17

police spokeswoman said, we

18:19

would like to trace the driver and appeal

18:22

to anyone who knows him to come forward.

18:25

He may be a vital witness. We

18:28

may be able to eliminate him

18:30

from the inquiries. The

18:33

officers went door to door asking if

18:35

anyone knew anything about the crime and

18:38

even drove through the area when school children

18:41

were on their way home, appealing

18:43

for information over a loudspeaker.

18:49

Leaflets bearing Tina's photograph and

18:51

information about her last known

18:53

movements were distributed to homes

18:56

in Billingham and the

18:58

posters were hung in businesses

19:00

throughout Billingham, Stockton, Middlesbrough

19:03

and Teeside. Tina's

19:07

parents were devastated. On

19:11

May 11th, a police spokeswoman stated,

19:14

there were many reported sightings

19:16

of Tina after she disappeared

19:19

and their hopes have been kept up. They

19:22

thought she was still out there, but

19:25

just not bothering to get in touch. Now

19:28

they are beginning to come to terms with the

19:30

fact that she is not. It's

19:33

very difficult. Bob

19:37

and Cath Bell released a statement a

19:39

week later which said, we

19:42

know it's a difficult job for the

19:44

police to find out exactly what happened

19:46

to our daughter Tina after

19:48

we last saw her on the evening of

19:50

Saturday, June 3rd. Because

19:53

of this, we are appealing to anyone who

19:55

may be able to help find her killer

19:58

to get in touch immediately. Now

20:01

finding it very difficult to come to terms

20:04

with her death and the

20:06

only thing that will give us peace of mind

20:08

is if her murderer was caught and

20:11

Tina was laid to rest. Later

20:16

in May the police announced they believed

20:18

the remains had been placed at the

20:20

wasteland by an uninvolved person such as

20:23

a child or someone who

20:25

thought they were animal bones. Detective

20:29

Chief Inspector Ron Newsom who led

20:31

the murder inquiry said

20:33

that the remains had not been buried.

20:37

Extensive searches of the surrounding area

20:39

led investigators to believe Tina had

20:42

been killed elsewhere. The

20:45

container suitable for disposing of a

20:47

body in acid was not found.

20:51

Officers also theorised that a relative or

20:53

friend of the killer might have tried

20:55

to help by disposing of the bones.

20:59

Tina's last known movements were

21:01

reenacted on an episode of

21:03

Crime Watch on Wednesday May

21:05

30th but

21:07

the response the police received was

21:10

disappointing and led nowhere.

21:14

It was nearly a full year after

21:16

Tina disappeared and

21:18

perhaps memories had faded or

21:22

distorted over time. Tina

21:30

Bell was finally laid to rest in October

21:32

1990. The

21:36

police were unable to recover any more

21:38

remains so her casket

21:41

only contained what the police could

21:43

retrieve. Tina's

21:46

loved ones remained in the dark as to what

21:48

had happened to the 18 year old. She

21:53

was buried at St Cuthbert's Church in

21:55

Billingham. Cleveland

21:58

police promised to continue to to

22:00

search for Tina's killer until the

22:02

case was solved. But

22:04

this vow did nothing to comfort

22:07

Tina's parents. They

22:09

had searched desperately for their daughter when

22:11

she first went missing. However

22:14

then the police did not seem

22:16

interested. An

22:21

inquest into Tina Bell's death was held

22:24

during December 1992 in Middlesbrough. A

22:29

then 17-year-old brother John and her

22:31

mother were in attendance. Other

22:36

close family members felt it best to

22:38

wait for the outcome at home. Tina's

22:41

father Bob who endured a mental

22:44

breakdown was being comforted

22:46

by their other daughter Angela, then

22:49

age 20. The

22:52

Cleveland coroner Michael Sheffield said that he

22:54

was almost certain that Tina was unlawfully

22:58

killed but the evidence did

23:00

not determine the exact cause of her death. Over

23:05

70 officers had worked on the case to try

23:07

and find Tina's killer. They

23:11

even travelled to France but

23:13

they were still no closer

23:15

to answers. Dr. Siva Samaasandaram

23:17

the home office pathologist said that it was likely Tina's

23:19

body had been dismembered

23:22

and dissolved in acid. The corrosive liquid

23:24

used was so strong that it not

23:28

only stripped the flesh

23:30

from the bones and the enamel from the teeth

23:32

but it also bleached the bones. Tina

23:39

had been identified using hospital x-ray and

23:41

dental records. An

23:45

open verdict was recorded at the inquest.

23:50

Detective Chief Inspector Ron Newsom said

23:52

at the hearing, our

23:55

enquiries will continue until the

23:57

truth is revealed And the

23:59

murderer is. Charged and convicted for

24:01

killing Tina. Somebody.

24:04

Knows the key to the mystery. D.

24:08

C I news and would like to tell

24:10

the gazette. The

24:12

body has been subject to a

24:14

process involving a liquid chemical of

24:16

some sort. And this

24:18

process could have taken place anyway.

24:21

In. A house. Garden. Shed.

24:24

On. An allotment and name a

24:26

few possibilities. And

24:28

gives the public and insight into the sort

24:30

of the evil kayla we are dealing with.

24:35

Officer said that the killer had

24:37

tried to make the victim unrecognizable.

24:40

Matter. It was difficult to imagine the mind

24:42

of a person who could do such. Seen.

24:58

A bell was last seen with two

25:00

men in a communal kitchen above of

25:02

fruit shop on mail line. Their.

25:05

Names were Billie, Dumb Loop. And

25:08

Vince Robson. Dunlop.

25:11

Was convicted of the November Nineteen

25:13

Eighty Nine murder of Julie Hauled

25:15

in September. Two thousand and six.

25:19

A case covered on Season Six

25:21

episode twenty Four and twenty five

25:23

of this podcast. Julie.

25:27

Had been missing for six weeks.

25:30

When her mother discovered her body

25:32

behind the boss panel in hub

25:34

Bellingham home. Despite.

25:37

And enormity of evidence. It took

25:39

decades and a change in double

25:41

jeopardy legislation for Dunlop to be

25:44

brought to justice for a murder

25:46

he confessed to numerous times. Due

25:51

to his mother and Meng spoke with

25:53

teen as parents and planned on doing

25:55

a press appeal. and

25:57

was a ball been caf said they would too

25:59

distraught to go through with it. Both

26:02

murders happened in the same year in

26:05

the same town. In

26:07

fact, the area where Tina Bell was

26:09

last seen became known as Murder Mile,

26:12

after a man named John Sewell was

26:14

killed during 1991 in a

26:16

car parts dealership next door to

26:18

the fruit shop close to where

26:21

Tina was spotted. Dunlop

26:24

and the other man Vince Robson were

26:26

questioned at the time according

26:28

to retired Cleveland police detective

26:30

John Matthews who spoke

26:33

to T-Sight Life. Matthews

26:35

stated, Vince Robson

26:38

said she had left on her own and

26:41

Billy Dunlop had followed her out, alluding

26:44

to it must have

26:46

been Billy. When

26:48

we spoke to Billy Dunlop he more or less

26:50

said, you want to have a

26:52

word with Vince Robson about that. Matthews

26:57

explained that neither of the men

26:59

were arrested for Tina's death. The

27:02

circumstances surrounding the questioning were

27:04

considered a trace

27:07

interview and eliminate case.

27:10

Officers had no evidence to link either

27:12

man to the crime and

27:14

it appeared the only way they would ever

27:16

be able to get an arrest was with

27:19

a confession. Angela

27:21

Tina's sister said that Vince Robson

27:24

worked in the area as a

27:26

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was November 7th, 1994,

30:11

when 13-year-old Lindsay Jo Reimer

30:13

left her home on Cambridge

30:16

Street in Hebden Bridge West

30:18

Yorkshire to go and

30:20

buy a packet of cornflakes from a

30:22

nearby shop. Soon

30:25

after 10pm, Lindsay walked

30:27

half a mile to the Trades Club,

30:29

where her mother Geraldine was playing

30:32

bingo. Lindsay

30:34

asked her for some money. Geraldine

30:37

gave her daughter £1.20 and as she

30:39

did so, she

30:42

told Lindsay to return straight home

30:44

after buying the cereal. From

30:47

here Lindsay travelled to the spa, which

30:50

was a short walk, about

30:52

two minutes on foot. She

30:55

bought the cornflakes and was

30:58

captured on the store's CCTV

31:00

camera leaving at 10.22pm to

31:02

walk home. The

31:05

property was not far. Lindsay's

31:08

father Gordon had been at home while

31:10

Lindsay went to the shop. He

31:14

was on the telephone from 9.45pm

31:17

until 10.20pm so

31:20

he simply assumed that Lindsay had come

31:22

home at some point during his phone call

31:24

and went straight to bed. Lindsay's

31:27

mother Geraldine came home that night at

31:30

11.30pm and

31:33

she to assume that Lindsay was sleeping

31:35

in her bed. However,

31:37

Lindsay had never walked through the front

31:40

door. It

31:42

would not be discovered that she was missing

31:44

until the following morning when

31:47

Lindsay failed to show up

31:49

for her 6.15am newspaper round.

32:01

Lindsay Jo Rimer was born on February 17th 1981. She

32:03

lived at home with her parents, Gordon

32:10

and Geraldine and her

32:12

three siblings Kate, Daniel

32:14

and Juliet. It

32:17

was said to be a happy and loving

32:19

home. Lindsay

32:22

was a popular student at Calder

32:24

High School and

32:26

she had ambitions to attend university.

32:30

According to one witness he had seen

32:33

Lindsay the night she vanished. He

32:37

came forward and told police that he

32:39

had been walking his dog on Valley

32:41

Road in Hebden Bridge and

32:43

he spoke with a girl who he

32:45

believed was Lindsay. He

32:48

said that the girl stopped him at around 11.30 p.m. and asked

32:51

for a light

32:55

and then continued walking in the

32:57

direction of Hardcastle Crags which

33:00

is a national trust spot. It

33:04

would be a handful more witnesses

33:06

who reported seeing a girl matching

33:08

Lindsay's description around the same time.

33:11

The teenage boy claimed to have seen Lindsay

33:13

at a bus stop in Hebden Bridge at

33:15

around 11.15 p.m. that night.

33:30

A search for Lindsay Jo Rimer was

33:32

launched and police officers

33:35

would comb through the hills of

33:37

the surrounding Yorkshire pannines. Police

33:40

divers would be called in to search

33:42

the River Calder and the Calder and

33:45

Hebble Canal. Their

33:47

search was fruitless. There

33:49

was no sign of Lindsay. Missing

33:53

person posters with Lindsay's face

33:55

emblazoned on the front alongside

33:57

details of her disappearance were

33:59

proven. printed and distributed throughout

34:01

the area. Her

34:05

friends and school teachers even travelled as

34:07

far as London with the missing person

34:09

posters so that news

34:12

of her disappearance would reach further

34:14

afield. Furthermore

34:16

Lindsay's loved ones organised a search

34:19

of Moreland and they

34:21

were assisted by more than 100 volunteers. However

34:26

once again no meaningful tips

34:28

were uncovered. Her

34:31

father Gordon spoke with a reporter

34:33

for the Independent and

34:36

he was of the opinion that his daughter

34:38

had been abducted and murdered stating,

34:42

Our lives over the last three days

34:44

have just been spent waiting and hoping

34:48

but our hopes are dwindling away. Police

34:52

on the other hand suggested

34:54

that Lindsay may have simply run away

34:57

from home despite the

34:59

fact no triggering issues were uncovered in

35:01

her life. A

35:04

newspaper bag had been packed for her round

35:06

the following morning which

35:08

did not signify that she had planned

35:10

on disappearing. It

35:13

was a small but strong indicator that

35:15

she was preparing to deliver the papers

35:17

as scheduled. In

35:20

such a small town the rumour mill

35:22

was running rampant and some

35:25

of the community turned on Gordon assuming

35:27

that he was somehow involved in

35:30

his daughter's disappearance. Police

35:33

received a plethora of phone calls from

35:35

strangers who had never met the family

35:38

naming Gordon as his daughter's

35:40

killer. They

35:43

said that while everybody who knew the

35:45

family contended it was a happy home

35:48

quote good parents would

35:50

have noticed that Lindsay had not come

35:53

home that night. In

35:56

fact the Rima family had been stronger than

35:58

ever at the time Lindsay. he vanished.

36:02

In the years before Gordon and

36:05

Lindsay's younger brother Daniel had moved

36:07

out following a brief separation. However

36:11

the family reconnected and

36:13

the temporary separation had only

36:15

tightened their bonds. Many

36:19

of the phone calls had come

36:21

in following a press conference wherein

36:24

Gordon pleaded with the public for

36:26

assistance in finding his missing daughter.

36:29

His demeanor did not convey his

36:32

upset. Some

36:34

members of the public said he appeared less

36:37

than distraught and

36:39

a cloud of suspicion immediately engulfed

36:41

him. Geraldine

36:44

had been too distraught to even appear

36:46

at the press conference and

36:49

detective superintendent Tony Whittle who

36:51

was leading the investigation said,

36:54

we had a few phone calls saying it

36:57

was dad who was responsible. His

36:59

manner and his facial expression seemed

37:01

unusual. Ebbdon

37:07

Bridge was somewhat of an

37:09

alternative community. Some

37:12

officers had even described it as

37:14

a quote hippie community. Yes

37:18

Whittle explained, it

37:20

is a community with a different

37:22

lifestyle but they have been

37:24

at least as helpful as any other. There

37:27

is a hippie commune there with

37:29

plenty of ponytails but there

37:31

is no crime rate to speak of and

37:34

it is more of a community than a

37:36

commuter estate. In

37:39

fact the quiet Pennine town was

37:42

where organized methodism had been born.

37:45

The cobblestones and moored barges made

37:47

it a popular tourist destination.

37:51

It was an exceptionally safe town

37:54

and it would not be uncommon to see 13 year olds

37:57

walking to the shop alone late at

37:59

night. Much like Lindsay

38:01

had done. Many

38:03

in the community even left their doors

38:05

unlocked because of the low crime rate

38:08

and the sense of security it afforded

38:10

them. With

38:12

nothing else to grasp hold of, some

38:15

suggested that Lindsay had become

38:17

disenchanted with the unorthodox lifestyle

38:19

of the town and

38:21

simply ran away. As

38:25

the days trickled past with no leads

38:27

in the case, police

38:29

would get Lindsay's 20 year old

38:31

sister Kate to retrace Lindsay's last

38:33

known movements in the hopes

38:35

that it would be able to refresh someone's memory.

38:40

On the night she vanished Lindsay

38:42

had been wearing a sweatshirt with

38:44

the words Dossie Posse written on

38:46

the back and boots with

38:48

a yellow motif. She

38:51

was also wearing a watch with

38:53

fluorescent markings. After

38:57

performing the reenactment Kate said,

39:00

It was horrible, my

39:02

heart was thumping all the time. The

39:06

days eventually transformed into weeks

39:09

yet there were no new developments to report.

39:14

A search was ramped up with

39:17

volunteers trawling through empty buildings. Lindsay's

39:21

family had written to more than 6,000 local

39:24

businesses and residents asking

39:27

if any empty properties they owned could be

39:29

searched. Concern

39:32

had turned into fear and

39:35

there was an increasing uncertainty in the

39:37

air that someday somebody was

39:39

going to discover something disturbing. Police

39:44

would learn about a bearded white man,

39:47

estimated to be in his 40s

39:49

or possibly 30s, who

39:51

had been approaching children with undue

39:54

interest before and

39:57

after Lindsay's disappearance. He

40:01

had allegedly been staying at a hotel

40:03

in Sheffield and had

40:05

seemingly disappeared after Lindsay vanished.

40:09

Officers appealed to the public for

40:12

information about this man revealing

40:14

that he was driving a red

40:16

Honda with the registration FYY

40:20

215W. The

40:23

vehicle had been stolen in Leeds and

40:27

then abandoned in Sheffield. The

40:30

car was recovered and

40:32

a forensic examination turned up no

40:35

evidence that Lindsay had been in

40:37

the vehicle. The

40:44

year following the young teenager's disappearance

40:46

would come to a close with

40:48

no new developments. Christmas

40:52

and Lindsay's birthday had passed

40:54

and it was hoped that if she had run away then

40:58

she would have at least called home but

41:01

there were no phone calls or letters.

41:07

In February police launched an appeal

41:09

in Scotland when

41:12

Lindsay's bedroom was searched officers found

41:14

a roll of film which featured

41:16

a Scottish castle however

41:19

she had never been to Scotland. Detective

41:23

inspector Graham Sunderland would state

41:26

if we can identify the people in

41:28

the photos it may

41:31

explain how they got there. Despite

41:34

an appeal no

41:37

tips came in. Then

41:49

on April 12th 1995 two

41:52

Colderdale council workmen doing routine

41:54

checks spotted something floating on

41:57

the surface of Rochdale canal.

42:00

around two miles outside Hebden

42:02

Bridge. One

42:05

of the men, Andy Glover, said that at

42:07

first they thought it may have been a

42:09

sheep. He

42:11

used a grappling hook to reel the object in

42:13

and was horrified

42:15

to discover that it was the body

42:17

of a girl. He

42:20

noticed immediately that the body was

42:23

wearing the same clothing that Lindsay

42:25

Joe Reimer had been wearing when

42:27

she vanished. The

42:34

following day the body was

42:36

positively identified. The

42:39

remains had been weighed down with

42:41

a 28-pound boulder which

42:43

indicated that she had been

42:46

murdered as opposed to accidentally

42:48

falling into the canal. And

42:51

Lindsay's body was disposed of. It

42:54

had sunk underneath a dredger. Then

42:57

in January before she was found there

43:00

was a flash flood and the canal

43:02

had burst its pranks. There

43:05

was so little water in the canal that

43:08

the dredger had sank into the silt so

43:11

Lindsay's body was trapped. The

43:15

six-foot deep canal had recently been

43:17

dredged bringing her body

43:19

to the surface. An

43:22

autopsy was conducted by Professor

43:24

Michael Green, a home

43:27

office pathologist, who

43:29

said he had initially failed to find a

43:31

cause of death. Further

43:34

tests determined that she had most

43:36

likely been strangled. Her

43:39

voice box had been flattened against

43:41

her spinal column and

43:43

there was evidence of compression across the

43:45

muscles in the front of her neck.

43:49

There was no evidence of sexual assault.

43:54

The missing person investigation

43:56

transformed into a homicide

43:58

inquiry involved sixty

44:00

police officers. DS

44:03

Whittle announced that the authorities believed that

44:05

Lindsay had been murdered on the night

44:08

she vanished and then her

44:10

body was dumped in the canal in

44:12

the hours before her parents reported her

44:14

missing. The

44:16

detective stated they were working on the

44:19

theory that Lindsay had been killed by

44:21

somebody she knew. DS

44:24

Whittle said she

44:26

was quite a cautious girl, non

44:28

street wise. She is more

44:30

likely to have got into a vehicle

44:32

with someone she trusted. Whoever

44:35

did this is bound to have been affected by

44:37

it and I believe

44:39

there is someone within the community

44:41

who perhaps since November 8th and

44:44

suspected they know the identity of

44:47

the person responsible. An

44:51

unlit towpath connected Lindsay's home to

44:53

the spa where she had

44:55

purchased the cornflakes. Police

44:58

were working on the assumption that this could

45:00

have been where she was attacked. Parts

45:04

of the River Cola ran close to

45:06

the street where Lindsay lived with her

45:08

family and it had

45:10

been searched back in November by police

45:13

divers. However they admitted

45:15

that the specific area where Lindsay's

45:17

body was found had not been.

45:21

DS Whittle said the indication

45:23

to us was that Lindsay disappeared

45:25

on her way home. She

45:28

went into the canal the flow of water

45:31

would have taken her body in the other

45:33

direction. It was a

45:35

mistake. I recognize

45:37

that fact. Following

45:42

the tragic news Lindsay's

45:44

family would release a

45:46

statement. He mentioned that

45:49

the discovery had ended

45:51

five months of anguish and worry

45:53

in the most abrupt and final

45:55

way. It ended

45:57

a hope that has sustained us throughout

45:59

this period. relatives

46:02

also thanked, quote, the

46:05

ordinary people of our community and

46:07

beyond for their kindness and

46:09

support. Although we

46:11

now know what has happened to our daughter, the

46:15

circumstances around her death remain

46:17

unclear. We

46:19

will not rest until we have

46:21

determined what happened. Belize

46:31

would once again appeal to the public

46:34

for information, this

46:36

time to catch Lindsay's killer. They

46:40

were convinced that Lindsay was killed by somebody

46:42

who lived in the community of 4,500 people

46:47

as opposed to an outsider and

46:49

suggested that somebody living in the town knew

46:51

who the killer was and was

46:54

potentially even protecting them. The

46:58

man we are seeking could be

47:00

someone's husband, son or brother. We

47:03

are asking people to look around at

47:05

property they know, people they live

47:07

with, people they associate with

47:10

or indeed their partners and

47:12

ask themselves certain questions. The

47:16

detective inspector Sunderland. Police

47:20

are also considering the theory that Lindsay

47:22

Jo Reimer had accepted a lift from

47:24

somebody that she knew. Her

47:28

body was found in an area that only

47:30

locals would know how to find. Her

47:34

body had been dumped in part of

47:36

the canal that was alongside a well-lit

47:38

factory. However, the killer

47:40

must have known that the busy

47:42

factory did not have security after

47:44

dark. The

47:47

s-wittle would suggest that somebody who

47:49

offered Lindsay a lift could have

47:51

been sexually attracted to her. They

47:54

could have taken her to the factory

47:57

where their advances were above. The

48:00

detective said that there was a chance that

48:02

the person did not know how to respond

48:05

and quote Strangled her

48:08

by mistake DS

48:12

Whittle asked the community to think of

48:14

anybody they knew was there

48:16

someone who was acting differently potentially

48:19

acting remorseful Police

48:23

considered that Lindsay may have been killed

48:25

by somebody that she had met two

48:27

days before she vanished During

48:29

the Hebden Bridge traditional

48:31

bonfire night celebration My

48:35

mother Geraldine would say during a press

48:37

conference. I believe

48:40

this man has watched us for 22

48:43

weeks and two days as

48:45

we searched every corner of Hebden

48:47

Bridge He has

48:49

watched us and probably laughed

48:51

at some of the efforts we have

48:53

made Geraldine

48:57

also wrote a letter to her daughter's

48:59

killer that was released in the media

49:05

To the person who murdered Lindsay

49:08

You have become as important to me

49:10

as Lindsay herself Because

49:13

you're with her when she died. I Was

49:16

with her when she was born and

49:19

I was with her for 13 and 3 quarter years. I Was

49:23

there to share every moment that was important

49:25

to her One

49:27

moment. I can't share is the moment that she

49:30

died. I Loved

49:32

her very very much She

49:35

was my baby We always

49:37

called her baby Lindsay Those

49:40

last moments give me such horrors because I

49:42

couldn't be there to help her And

49:45

I couldn't be there to share with her what

49:47

she was going through You

49:50

know what happened I Don't

49:53

even know what her last words were Did

49:56

she ask for me? Did

49:59

she scream? Really

50:01

suffer? Was she so

50:03

frightened? I need

50:05

to know. I

50:07

couldn't sleep for weeks after Lindsay disappeared

50:09

because every time I closed my eyes

50:11

I'd see her face. And

50:14

her face would be twisted in so much

50:16

pain and so much terror that

50:18

I couldn't cope with it. I

50:21

don't know if you sleep at night. I

50:24

don't know if you manage to go through your

50:26

days and push out of your brain what you

50:28

did to Lindsay. I

50:30

know I can't. Every

50:33

waking moment is consumed by the fact that

50:35

Lindsay is not here and the reason that

50:37

she is not here. These

50:40

last few weeks since the start of

50:42

the new school year walking through Hebden

50:45

Bridge and seeing the children from Colder

50:47

High School in their uniforms. All

50:50

the girls look like Lindsay to me. The

50:53

hair. The clothes. Some

50:56

the way they walked. Some an

50:58

expression on their faces. Some

51:01

the way they waved their hands. And

51:04

it's absolute torture for me. Do

51:07

you walk through Hebden Bridge? Do

51:10

you see them? These children? 13

51:13

and 14 year olds? Do

51:16

you feel the same as me? Can

51:19

you look at them and not feel

51:21

remorse and sorrow and such utter sadness?

51:25

Because that's what I feel. Please

51:28

help me to understand why. Please

51:31

help me to come to terms with what

51:33

happened to my child. Only

51:35

you can do that. You

51:38

are so important to me. On

51:40

April 23rd 1995, Lindsay's funeral was held at St James's

51:43

in Hebden Bridge. The

52:01

service was led by Reverend Martin

52:04

Parrot. He

52:06

told the mourners that Lindsay's killer was

52:09

not going to evade justice. He

52:12

said, whoever did this

52:14

to Lindsay will not get away with it.

52:18

If they avoid the skill of our police

52:20

service in this world, then

52:22

God will judge them in the next.

52:30

The police who were working on the

52:32

murder investigation were present at

52:34

the funeral, in part

52:36

to pay their respects to Lindsay, but

52:39

also to hope that the person

52:41

or people responsible might slip up.

52:45

There have been many instances of

52:47

killers showing up at their victim's

52:49

funeral. In

52:51

an attempt to generate some much needed

52:54

leads, another reconstruction

52:56

was carried out on November

52:58

6th. Once

53:00

again Lindsay's sister Kate retraced

53:02

Lindsay's last known movements from

53:05

the trades club to the spa. It

53:09

was one year since Lindsay had been killed

53:12

and the police were no closer to finding

53:14

her killer than they were on day one,

53:17

despite the fact over 1000 people had been interviewed.

53:30

Over the intervening years police

53:33

would routinely appeal to the

53:35

public for information regarding Lindsay's

53:37

murder. In

53:41

2014 for the first time

53:43

ever, the police

53:45

investigating the murder would use

53:47

a tweet construction to

53:49

try and bring awareness to the case. It

53:53

was a reconstruction of Lindsay's last

53:55

known movements and

53:57

the appeal was launched on Twitter. The

54:02

police encouraged everyone to watch the

54:04

video and then re-suited so

54:06

that it could reach fire and white.

54:10

It came at the 20th anniversary

54:13

of Lyns's murder. The

54:22

following year Kate would speak publicly

54:25

about her sister's killing. She

54:28

said to the Huddersfield Daily Examiner that

54:30

while the killer may have gotten off

54:33

scot-free, it was

54:35

Lyns's family that had been given a

54:37

life sentence. Kate

54:39

said, We miss

54:41

her so much, but every

54:44

memory of her is tainted. It

54:47

is so painful and bleeds into

54:49

everything we do. In

54:53

the aftermath of Lyns's Jo Rimer's

54:55

murder, her parents

54:57

divorced. Then

55:02

in 2016, it

55:05

appeared as though there was going to be a

55:07

breakthrough in the case when a

55:09

new DNA profile was identified

55:13

and it was hoped that it could lead

55:15

to Lyns's killer. DNA

55:18

evidence that was recovered was sent

55:20

to Canada to be analyzed using

55:22

advanced DNA testing techniques. Detective

55:26

Superintendent Simon Atkinson told

55:29

reporters, Our

55:31

Canadian colleagues are doing some

55:33

groundbreaking forensic work, so

55:35

we sent some of the forensic exhibits over

55:37

to them. They

55:39

have been able to develop a

55:42

DNA profile which we are really

55:44

interested in developing further. Sadly,

55:48

however, nothing ever came of

55:50

this development. The

55:57

following year former DS John Matthews

56:00

of Cleveland police would publicly

56:02

disclose that he believed officers

56:04

who were working on Lindsay's murder at

56:06

the time had overlooked a

56:09

potential suspect. As

56:11

part of his investigation into the murders

56:14

of Tina Bell and Julie Hogg in

56:16

Billingham, detective

56:18

Superintendent Matthews had interviewed

56:20

Vince Robson. He

56:23

had moved to Hebden Bridge. Robson

56:27

who passed away in 2005 had connections to Tina's

56:31

family, Julie's family

56:34

and Lindsay's family. Tina

56:38

and Julie had both been killed during 1989

56:41

in the same area where Robson

56:43

lived. Afterwards

56:45

Robson moved to Hebden Bridge

56:47

and then Lindsay was killed.

56:51

All three women had been strangled and

56:54

Robson had connections to Billy Dunlop

56:57

who was later convicted of Julie's

56:59

murder. Robson

57:01

had also been involved with the trades

57:03

club where he had worked

57:06

as a sound engineer. Before

57:09

going to the spa on that fateful

57:11

night Lindsay had popped

57:13

into the trades club to get some

57:15

money from her mother. It

57:18

was at the trades club where Robson

57:21

had been interviewed for a second time

57:23

by DS Matthews in relation to the

57:25

murders of Julie Hogg and Tina Bell.

57:29

In fact Robson was one of the

57:31

last people to have seen Tina alive

57:33

in a communal kitchen at a flat

57:35

on Mill Lane Inn, Billingham. As

57:39

DS Matthews said, I

57:41

thought it was ridiculous to have the same

57:44

circumstances 100 miles apart. How unlikely

57:48

would it be if that person

57:50

was innocent in

57:52

that line of work you don't believe

57:54

in coincidences. By

57:58

Yorkshire police would confirm that Vince

58:00

Robson had been interviewed at the

58:02

time of Lindsay's disappearance and

58:05

was investigated following his death.

58:09

However they would not disclose why Robson

58:11

was ruled out of the inquiries. Just

58:17

the following month a 63 year

58:19

old man was arrested in connection

58:21

with the murder of Lindsay Jo

58:23

Reimer. It was

58:25

released the following day on police bail.

58:29

In April of 2017 a second man was arrested in connection

58:34

with Lindsay's murder. He

58:36

was a 68 year old man from

58:39

Bradford. Like

58:44

the previous suspect he was

58:46

also released without charge. So

59:07

where are we now? Five

59:11

years after a coroner returned an

59:14

open verdict into Tina Bell's death,

59:17

the authorities began reviewing unsolved

59:19

murders throughout the nation and

59:22

the Cleveland police renewed their

59:24

investigative efforts into Tina's murder.

59:29

A 25,000 pound reward from the

59:31

police contingency fund was offered by

59:33

the Cleveland police in October 1999

59:36

in the

59:38

hopes of new information being brought

59:40

forward. A

59:43

press conference was held at the

59:45

Cleveland police headquarters in Middlesbrough where

59:48

Tina's parents and brother spoke.

59:52

John Bell then aged 23 had been

59:55

grieving his older sister's death since he

59:57

was 13. He

1:00:00

said at the press conference, I

1:00:03

was a schoolboy at the time and

1:00:06

we were one happy family. Then

1:00:09

Tina went missing and never returned

1:00:11

home. We

1:00:13

searched and prayed that the next knock on

1:00:15

the door or the next phone call would

1:00:17

be Tina coming home. But

1:00:20

instead what did come was the police to

1:00:22

tell us my sister's remains had been found.

1:00:27

Tina was dead. The

1:00:29

day we got that news it was like

1:00:31

a big sledgehammer smashing a picture you treasure.

1:00:35

Everything was broken and could not be replaced.

1:00:39

From that day we have hoped and prayed

1:00:41

that somebody out there would give us the

1:00:44

knowledge of who the person or persons were

1:00:46

who did this, where

1:00:48

they are and why. We've

1:00:51

never stopped grieving. It's

1:00:53

been years and years of stress and

1:00:56

crying. We never

1:00:58

stopped hoping someone would come and tell us

1:01:00

why she died, how

1:01:02

she died and when and

1:01:04

where she died. Please

1:01:07

help us lift some of the pain so we

1:01:09

can get on with our lives. My

1:01:12

mum and dad lost their baby. She

1:01:15

was the eldest but she was their baby, the

1:01:19

first born. For

1:01:21

ten years we have lived this nightmare

1:01:23

that somebody knows what happened. We

1:01:26

want this person or persons to come forward

1:01:28

or for somebody to give them up. That

1:01:31

might start to give us peace of

1:01:33

mind and prevent some other girl going

1:01:36

out on a Saturday night, not

1:01:39

coming home. At

1:01:43

the press conference Tina's heartbroken parents said

1:01:45

that they lay next to each other

1:01:48

like planks of wood each night, unable

1:01:51

to sleep knowing what the other was

1:01:53

thinking. Tina's

1:01:56

brother pleaded for information, saying

1:01:59

that he wasn't not looking for revenge

1:02:01

or the details, he

1:02:03

just wanted to know why Tina had

1:02:05

been killed. He

1:02:08

said that he spent a lot of time

1:02:10

speaking to Tina at her grave or to

1:02:12

her photograph and

1:02:14

that even if people thought he was crazy for

1:02:16

doing it, it

1:02:18

brought him comfort. John

1:02:22

spoke about a carriage clock Tina

1:02:24

had bought her mother for Christmas

1:02:26

the year before she went missing

1:02:28

and compared its importance to him

1:02:30

to the Queen's Jubilee crown. His

1:02:34

mother Kath Bell asked, what

1:02:37

had my Tina ever done to deserve

1:02:39

this? And

1:02:51

the case was reopened Chief Superintendent

1:02:53

Peter Wilson took the lead. He

1:02:57

said at the time, Tina's

1:02:59

family have been very brave in

1:03:01

facing up to our new inquiry

1:03:03

and helping us. If

1:03:06

this 25,000 pound reward

1:03:08

is what it takes for Tina's killer

1:03:10

to be brought to justice then

1:03:13

it is worth every penny. I

1:03:16

am of the firm belief that somebody

1:03:18

from Billingham who may not be living

1:03:21

there now has knowledge of what

1:03:23

happened. I'm

1:03:25

not prepared to go into specific

1:03:27

details for obvious operational reasons but

1:03:30

I know there is somebody out there

1:03:33

who can supply the police with vital

1:03:35

information. We

1:03:37

only need a start that could lead

1:03:39

us ultimately to the person responsible for

1:03:41

this horrific crime. That

1:03:44

at least will allow Tina's family to

1:03:46

have some form of peace. A

1:03:53

month later Chief Superintendent Wilson said

1:03:55

that people who had not come

1:03:57

forward during the original inquiry had

1:03:59

had since provided new information

1:04:02

and that detectives were following up on

1:04:04

all the new leads. Wilson

1:04:08

said, this response

1:04:10

to our appeal only reinforces my

1:04:12

belief there are people, particularly

1:04:15

in the Billingham area, who

1:04:17

have information that will help us

1:04:19

bring Tina's killer to justice and

1:04:22

bring some peace of mind to her

1:04:24

grieving family. Tina

1:04:33

Bell's siblings have made numerous appeals

1:04:35

for information in the years since

1:04:37

her death, despite the

1:04:40

pain it causes to relive the trauma,

1:04:43

but the case remains unsolved. In

1:04:48

2004 the case file was

1:04:51

passed to the murder investigation

1:04:53

team at Cleveland Police, now

1:04:55

responsible for the unsolved murders in

1:04:57

the area. Team

1:05:01

Leader Detective Superintendent Gordon Lang said

1:05:03

in an interview with the Gazette,

1:05:06

Unsolved cases are never closed

1:05:09

and we will react to any

1:05:11

information or intelligence made available. Our

1:05:16

determination to catch Tina's killer has

1:05:18

not diminished over time, we

1:05:21

remain determined as ever. Age

1:05:32

23 Angela moved to Hull but

1:05:35

returned to Billingham to visit her

1:05:37

parents and her sister's grave. Now

1:05:40

her daughter Hannah helps her to

1:05:42

look for information about Tina's murder.

1:05:46

Angela believes that someone in the area

1:05:48

knows something and that it

1:05:51

could not have been a lone killer. Speaking

1:05:54

about her sister Angela said in

1:05:57

an interview with T-side Live. She

1:06:00

was a big lass. It would

1:06:02

have taken two or three of them to get hold

1:06:04

of her. I just wish

1:06:07

they would confess or slip up somehow

1:06:09

because it's not fair. I

1:06:11

don't want to know how she died because I

1:06:14

know she suffered. I

1:06:16

just want justice for her. Tina's

1:06:20

brother John has stayed in Billingham. He

1:06:23

said that he would like to think his

1:06:25

presence there has an effect on whoever hurt

1:06:27

his sister. In

1:06:31

a 2011 interview with Teaside

1:06:33

Live, John said, I

1:06:36

feel like I would be turning my back on

1:06:38

Tina if I left here. I

1:06:41

believe that someday somebody will give

1:06:43

us the answers. I

1:06:45

will keep hoping and praying for the rest of

1:06:48

my life. But I just

1:06:50

really hope it's in time for my parents. My

1:06:53

dad was always my hero, as

1:06:56

is the case with most boys. But

1:06:58

he has been a tortured man. Tina

1:07:02

was his little girl, his

1:07:04

firstborn. He

1:07:07

is coming up 80 and I

1:07:09

would give anything to see him have closure

1:07:11

before he goes. We

1:07:13

have never been able to lay Tina to

1:07:15

rest. Everybody deserves

1:07:18

a proper funeral and burial.

1:07:21

But Tina has never had that. As

1:07:24

a family, we don't feel she will ever

1:07:26

get rest because of that. The

1:07:28

crime is still going on for

1:07:30

Tina. Tina

1:07:34

Bell would have turned 50 years old in

1:07:36

2020. A

1:07:39

sister Angela told the Gazette that they would have

1:07:42

had a massive party if Tina

1:07:44

had not been killed 31 years earlier. Brother

1:07:49

John said that the pain goes

1:07:51

beyond the milestones Tina has missed.

1:07:54

Like birthdays and Christmas. It

1:07:57

is with them every day. He

1:08:00

explained that the murder had affected all

1:08:02

their lives and that quote, For

1:08:06

a long time I wasn't

1:08:08

John Bell who could play football or

1:08:11

John Bell the scaffolder, I

1:08:14

was John Bell whose sister was murdered.

1:08:29

After Tina went missing Bob and

1:08:31

Kath Bell scoured the streets in

1:08:34

desperation and

1:08:37

they found out she had been killed

1:08:39

they were too heartbroken to watch the

1:08:41

news or read any reports about the

1:08:43

investigation. Over

1:08:46

1,000 witness statements were taken and

1:08:49

hundreds of leads were filed but

1:08:52

unfortunately Kath and

1:08:55

Bob Bell did not live to see

1:08:57

justice for their eldest child. The

1:09:01

case remains unsolved, the

1:09:04

police do not know who killed Tina Bell,

1:09:07

why they killed her or

1:09:10

how and where she was killed. Bob

1:09:14

Bell once told the Northern Echo,

1:09:17

I still believe after all this

1:09:19

time that someday this

1:09:22

terrible case will be solved.

1:09:41

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