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‘But he’s been in the UK over the past few o on a Eurostar train to Paris

‘Shit Oh, shit Get in touch with Interpol Eroing with Laura?’

‘Sloe’re trying to get her to talk, but I don’t knoup the phone and was about to go back inside, when it rang in her hand It was Isaac Strong

‘I’ve finally had the results come back on the soil samples we took from the plastic Jessica Collins rapped in,’ he said ‘As well as being soil and silt samples consistent ould be found at the quarry, there was another type of material which was found within the plastic When I sent the soil away to the forensic geologist I also included the lower jawbone from Jessica’s remains, where the material abbed froed’

‘What’s theimpatient

‘It’s from a type of bivalve mollusc native to the area around the Gower Peninsula in Wales, also known as the Penclawdd cockle Jessica was dropped into the quarry wrapped tightly in the plastic, it created a seal that only the water and h…’

‘The quarry was searched in the weeks after Jessica went , so whoever put her in the water either kept her alive…’

‘Or killed her, disposed of the body and then transferred the body to the quarry’

‘Laura ith her boyfriend Oscar when Jessica disappeared,’ said Erika ‘They went to the Gower Peninsula in Wales’

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AUGUST 7TH 1990

The air arm, and a breeze floated off the sea shore towards Laura and Oscar Browne as they sat beside the fire It was a cool night, and the sky was a vast canopy of stars above the on the sand in the small, secluded bay in the Gower Peninsula near Swansea