Kris runs through the haunting black and white CCTV footage of Jane taken as she waited outside the Continental. “The fi rst we see of Jane is at 11.58pm, standing alone and facing the street,” she says. “She is obviously waiting for someone. Then, right on midnight, a man walks straight up to her. We only see the back of him for a second, but that brief vision tells us volumes about him. He has straight, short, dark brown or black hair. He is taller than Jane, well dressed with a medium build and muscular upper torso, which suggests fi tness. He probably presents similarly today, although perhaps now he has greying hair. He would be [aged] around 47 to 55 now. “When he is about a metre from her, he raises both palms upward in a friendly gesture and Jane raises her head and gives him a radiant smile. She is clearly delighted to see him.” Kris says their mutual body language strongly indicates that they were not strangers. “When the camera changes to Jane 28 seconds later, the man is no longer there,” she says. “But Jane is, for another three minutes. Now, she has turned to face oncoming traffi c. It is more than probable that he has gone to get his car and she is now waiting for a lift from him.” At 12.04am, Jane looks at her watch. When the camera changes back to her a minute later, she is gone. Eight weeks later, horrifi ed passers-by discovered Jane – who had dreamed only of marrying and having children – when they were strolling to pick wild fl owers. In the days after Jane’s disappearance, police identifi ed all 700 patrons who were at the Continental Hotel that night, all, that is, except one person. “No one was able to identify the man who approached Jane,” Kris says. “Tellingly, he didn’t come forward to identity himself, either. It is vital to
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