Lindsay Rimer's family and detectives reveal the lasting impact of the teenager's murder in 1994.
On a rainy November night Lindsay Rimer walked the short route from her home to a local shop to buy breakfast cereal. The 13-year-old's body was discovered weighed down in a nearby canal months later. In her pocket, the exact change from the cornflakes she had bought.
Then a detective superintendent in the murder squad, Tony was based in Bradford where it was not too unusual for teenagers to disappear overnight before re-emerging the next day.Eight miles outside of Halifax in West Yorkshire, a hippie-spirited town surrounded by rolling hills and stone bridges. The definition of a community where everyone knows everyone.
When she left the house, her dad was on the phone so Lindsay called at the nearby Trades Club where her mum was meeting friends and got some money from her so she could buy the cereal. Graham and Tony were at the forefront of police efforts to solve the case. In this media appeal Lindsay's dad Gordon speaks to the pressShe was spotted moments later by two bus passengers as she leant against a wall near to the town’s Memorial Garden.In the early days of her disappearance, police and the community joined forces and combed the area, hoping to bring the teenager home.
There were rumours of sightings in other parts of the country. One man told police he had seen Lindsay being dragged into a car and had followed it to a nearby reservoir but his claims were disproved. An offender profile drawn up by a psychiatrist suggested the likely suspect would be someone who could drive, probably aged 17 to early 20s, and perhaps someone Lindsay would be attracted to.There were hopes of a breakthrough after identifying the driver of a stolen Honda CivicExhausted detective Tony had been persuaded to take his first day off in weeks when he received a call to say officers had tracked down the driver of a stolen red Honda Civic.
"It wasn't a shock because after so long we weren't expecting her to come home. But it was just deeply sad."The arms of her jumper had been tied together in a sling with a stone used to weigh her down. There was no suggestion of a sexual assault. In April 2016, police believed that scientific advances had enabled them to create a DNA profile which may lead them back to the killer.
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