This article delves into the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Ruth Wilson, a 16-year-old who vanished from her Surrey home in 1995. It explores her troubled state of mind, her quest to uncover the truth about her mother's death, and the lingering questions that remain after nearly 30 years.
During one of the last conversations Catherine Mair had with her friend Ruth Wilson, the teenager made a plea.
She was last seen on a cold, wet, late November afternoon in 1995 by a taxi driver who had just dropped her off at Box Hill, a famous beauty spot nearby. It places the teenager in the poignant canon of the disappeared, trailing a number of troubling questions in her wake – chief among them being what, exactly, was going through her mind when she booked a taxi from Dorking railway station to take her to dark and isolated woodland that stormy Monday afternoon?
'We knew each other before, but the dynamics changed when we got much closer in sixth form,' says Catherine. 'She was very shy and quiet all the way through school, certainly not one of the popular ones. But I realised she was bright and interesting and funny.
'Sadly, Ruth seemed convinced she was responsible,' says Catherine. 'She believed it was one of her toys that her mum had tripped over.' 'Obviously it's crazy to find out that something you've been told your entire life isn't true, whatever the reasons,' she adds. 'Understandably it left a lot of questions for her – why her mother, with two young babies, would take her life just weeks before Christmas.
Yet she has never forgotten her old friend. 'I've thought about her a lot over the years,' she says. 'Particularly now I have a daughter who is the same age as Ruth was when she went missing. It brings it all back.
She told Jenny that she would head in later, declined the offer of a lift from Will, who passed by her home, and instead ordered a taxi to Dorking Library, where she spent a few hours. 'I always thought it was odd that they launched such a huge search so quickly,' says Catherine. 'Teenagers fail to come home all the time. It made me wonder what they thought they knew.'
Although never confirmed by Surrey Police, on December 1, 1995, The Times reported that officers had found three notes hidden in a bush on Box Hill: one each to her father and stepmother, and one to a friend. The contents have never been revealed. 'Today we would have so much more information – we'd know when someone's phone was switched off, we'd have all this information online. But back then people were working in the dark.'
Several days after their daughter's disappearance, the Wilsons appeared on ITV breakfast programme This Morning appealing for her return and, in 2006, Ian penned an open letter to his missing daughter for the Mail, in which he wrote of his ongoing grief.
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