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Profiling the three young women whose deaths are being re-investigated

Donna Keogh, Vicky Glass and Rachel Wilson all disappeared over a four-year period
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Two were murdered and one remains missing
[FONT=&amp]The parents of Middlesbrough teenager Donna Keogh have been searching for answers over her disappearance for 20 years.
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[FONT=&amp]Popular 17-year-old Donna Keogh was last sighted on Hartington Road in the Gresham area of Middlesbrough on April 19, 1998. Reports suggest she was last with a group of people at a house party on Bow Street.
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[FONT=&amp]But the Beechwood teenager was never seen again and police believe she was murdered.
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[FONT=&amp]Her mum and dad Brian and Shirley have tried to keep Donna’s story in people’s minds, making repeated appeals through the media for help in finding her killer or killers.
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[FONT=&amp]In 2015, a fresh review was launched, led by an external police officer who looked at “every aspect” of the investigation.[/FONT]

[FONT=&amp]Mr and Mrs Keogh grieve every day for their daughter. Tragically, Donna’s body was never found so they have not been able to say goodbye and lay her to rest.
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[FONT=&amp]Her mum and dad said the ongoing support from the Middlesbrough community has helped keep them going.[/FONT]
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Donna lived with her cousins At King House Central Mews in Middlesbrough town centre, although she was known to frequent other parts of the town.

According to police: 'Donna was born in Middlesbrough, Cleveland and was a very popular girl. She had many friends and spent a lot of time with her cousins who were of a similar age to her. Donna loved doing her hair and make-up and had a keen interest in fashion. She was schooled locally and at 16 years old spent time working at a care home for the elderly.

'Donna was known to keep in regular contact with her family and friends, which ceased in mid-April 1998. This resulted in her concerned family reporting her missing. On May 30, 1998 Cleveland Police launched a missing from home inquiry.

'Donna was never found and it is strongly suspected that she was murdered sometime close to the time she went missing.'
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Cold case into missing teenage girl who vanished without a trace 20 years ago is reopened | Daily Mail Online
 
June 18 2018
Police Reopen 20-Year-Old Murder Case For Missing Middlesbrough Teen
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On Monday, Cleveland Police announced that they and a specialist search team had started excavation work on a former allotment site near Troon Close, Middlesbrough, in a bid to find new information.

Detective Superintendent Michael Hunt said the force’s investigation had helped identify several areas where it will carry out “targeted searches in an attempt to find Donna and discover what happened to her in 1998”.

Mr Hunt added: “Donna’s family desperately want to give her a proper funeral and finally lay her body to rest. Finding Donna continues to be a priority for the investigation team.”
 
Oct 9 2018
Historic murder case of Donna Keogh, Vicky Glass and Rachel Wilson looking at child sexual exploitation and police misconduct | The Northern Echo
"Part of the investigation’s focus will be whether there was child sexual exploitation and whether there are any previously unrecorded sex offences to be looked at, the force said last night.

New scientific techniques and forensics are also being used in a bid to catch those responsible.

Vicky Glass, 21, disappeared in September, 2000 and her body was found in Danby, North Yorkshire, two months later. Rachel Wilson, 19, disappeared in June 2002 and her skeleton was discovered on farmland in Middlesbrough ten years later.

Donna Keogh, 17, went missing after a Middlesbrough house party in April 1998 and her body has never been found, although all three cases are being investigated as murder."
 
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Oct 9 2018
Historic murder case of Donna Keogh, Vicky Glass and Rachel Wilson looking at child sexual exploitation and police misconduct | The Northern Echo
"Part of the investigation’s focus will be whether there was child sexual exploitation and whether there are any previously unrecorded sex offences to be looked at, the force said last night.

New scientific techniques and forensics are also being used in a bid to catch those responsible.

Vicky Glass, 21, disappeared in September, 2000 and her body was found in Danby, North Yorkshire, two months later. Rachel Wilson, 19, disappeared in June 2002 and her skeleton was discovered on farmland in Middlesbrough ten years later.

Donna Keogh, 17, went missing after a Middlesbrough house party in April 1998 and her body has never been found, although all three cases are being investigated as murder."
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I am a bit puzzled if article's child sexual exploitation is referenced to the area or with relevance to any of these 3 cases. It unfortunately does not mention where Vicky Glass and Rachel Wilson disappeared from either but I will look into it in near future and how far it was from Donna.

Interesting statement from article:
The investigation is following a number of independent reviews and pressure from families after the force acknowledged there were ‘shortfalls’ with the initial investigations.

This is understood to involve a fixation with investigating one person believed to be responsible, at the cost of ignoring other leads.
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Cleveland Police has won £3.77m Home Office funding for its Historic Investigation Unit to investigate the crimes, so there should be plenty of updates... Looking forward to those updates and fresh look on all 3 cases.
 
Donna Keogh's parents: 'We don't know where she is. But someone who is probably reading this does'

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Donna Keogh should have been celebrating her 40th birthday today. But there will be no family party, cards and presents to mark the milestone day for the Middlesbrough girl.

The only gift her mum and dad can now hope to give their daughter is justice.

So they are renewing their appeal to the Teesside public to help finally bring her killer before the courts.
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"It never gets easier - in fact it gets harder for us because we don't know where she is," they said. "But someone who is probably reading this does. So please do the decent thing and tell us where Donna is and give us closure.
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Donna was one of three siblings and was a very popular girl with lots of friends.

Her family has a proud history in the armed forces, stretching back to Donna’s great-grandfather, who served with the Irish Guards in World War I.
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Donna left the flat she shared with her cousin in Central Mews, Middlesbrough, at about 11pm on Saturday, April 18, 1998. The 17-year-old was last seen in the early hours of the next day at a house party on Bow Street in Middlesbrough.

It is thought she was murdered 'within a short period of time' after the party.
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In 2006, Donna's parents lodged official complaints against Cleveland Police in relation to the inquiry.

The main concern was why two men were reportedly left out of the inquiry despite being with Donna in Bow Street on the night she disappeared. Brian and Shirley Keogh said neither men have been treated as potential suspects.
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Donna's case is now part of a three-strand inquiry into historic cases and "poor quality" investigations by the force.

Operation Pandect was set up with a Home Office grant after police failed to get justice for Donna as well as two other women - Rachel Wilson and Vicky Glass. And Cleveland Police has admitted there were ‘shortfalls’ in the investigation and is looking into potential police misconduct.

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(Vicky Glass, Rachel Wilson and Donna Keogh)
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The strand of the investigation looking into Donna's death is called Operation Resolute and was launched in October 2016.

Donna Keogh's parents mark her 40th birthday with heartfelt plea
 
Website set up by Cleveland police just for Donna's case, plus for people to submit tips annonymously or without fear. Lots of inormation and photos in different parts of the site - #FindDonna


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As flyer mention sky blue dress, I assume it was this dress on below photo she was wearing on night out when last seen. This photo is from about a year prior to her disappearance.

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Case featuring on Cleveland police website, again with lots of information and photos but on one page - Find Donna

News and Updates

Excavation ends at former allotment site
25/07/2018
Search activity related to an historic murder case in Middlesbrough has concluded, with the investigation into the death of a teenager in 1998 continuing. Police and a specialist search team started work at a former allotment site near to Troon Close, Middlesbrough on Monday 18th June as part of the investigation into the disappearance of Donna Keogh from Middlesbrough in 1998 when she was just 17 years old. Donna has never been found and her disappearance is being treated as a murder investigation.

Today (Wednesday 25th July) police announced that the excavation work at Troon Close would conclude this week. During the course of the excavation a fragment of human jaw bone was recovered, however forensic testing (including DNA testing and radiocarbon dating) has confirmed that it is not related to the murder investigation and dates back to the early-medieval period.

Detective Chief Superintendent Jon Green said: “Donna’s family desperately want to give her a proper funeral and finally lay her body to rest, and finding Donna continues to be a priority for the investigation team.

“This has been a complex and thorough search conducted over a number of weeks and I would like to thank all those who have taken part for their efforts. This has not been easy work, especially given the temperatures our search teams have been working in, and they have demonstrated exceptional professionalism and dedication.

“The recovery of a bone fragment slowed the search considerably and has been the main reason the search activity lasted as long as it did. As well as our search teams, I would like to take local residents for supporting us over this extended length of time.

“Our search at Troon Close came about because our investigation identified it as an area of interest. Other areas of interest have also been identified where we will be conducting targeted searches in the coming months.”

To support the investigation, the public can visit www.finddonna.co.uk to view details about Donna’s life, her disappearance and the police’s on-going investigation.

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Assistant Chief Constable Jason Harwin said: “The HIU will look into the deaths of Vicky Glass in 2000, Rachel Wilson in 2002 and the disappearance of Donna Keogh in 1998.

“There is commonality between the cases through the sex and ages of the victims and all being linked geographically to Middlesbrough. It is too early in the re-investigations to say if there are any other links.

“In our funding bid to the Home Office we made it clear that these are complex investigations that will require meticulous investigation over a number of years to complete. We will continue to work closely with the families of the three victims to keep them informed of developments and will also seek the ongoing support the public, and the media, as the investigations progress.”
 
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Violence, emotion and place: The case of five murders involving sex workers

In September 2001, 20-year-old Vicky Glass was last seen getting into a car in the early hours of the morning outside The Shipmate. Forty days later, her mutilated body was discovered 20 miles away in a stream in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park.
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Between 2000 and 2003 in Middlesbrough – a large town in the north of England, four young women were murdered. Another young woman - 17-year-old Donna Keogh has been missing since 1998; Donna’s body has never been discovered and police suspect she too has been murdered. In 2015, Cleveland Police issued an apology to Donna’s parents after accepting that aspects of the original investigation had been mismanaged, including evidence and statements being lost.
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Twenty-one year old Vicky Glass was last seen outside a town centre pub in the early hours of the morning of 24 September 2001; in early November 2001, her body was found in a stream near Danby, a North Yorkshire Moors village, approximately 20 miles from Middlesbrough. In August 2003, police inquiries were ongoing, but the coroner then recorded an open verdict. In May 2002, 19-year-old Rachel Wilson also disappeared – last seen on a street in central Middlesbrough; her bones were found on farmland to the south of the town in July 2012. Rachel’s and Vicky’s killers are yet to be identified.
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On 10 September 2000, Kellie Mallinson was picked up and taken to an industrial estate on the outskirts of Middlesbrough town centre where she was asphyxiated. Her body was discovered the following day in nearby bushes. In 2001, 31-year-old Shaun Tuley was sentenced to life imprisonment for her murder.

In August 2003, George Leigers picked up sex worker Sarah Coughlan, took her back to his house and stabbed her repeatedly. He was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment which was later reduced to 21 years on appeal by the Criminal Appeal Court, on the grounds of diminished responsibility. In 2006, however, an independent inquiry concluded that no one was responsible for Sarah’s death.

It was also established that in 1986, Leigers had bludgeoned his wife to death, but was found guilty of manslaughter and detained in a psychiatric unit only for 6 years before release.
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From the outset, police and local media coverage of these cases connected victims to street sex work and drug addiction.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, street prostitution, hard drugs markets and addiction to ‘poverty drugs’ such as heroin and crack cocaine were especially problematic in Middlesbrough. Local crime rates during this period far exceeded national averages. More specifically, just city of Middlesbrough accounted for approximately 25% of kerb crawling convictions for the whole of England and Wales. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, the town also became notorious due to the ready availability of cheap heroin within this same period.

Link to pdf file - https://research.tees.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/7553259/CMC858371.pdf
 
There is also reddit discussion about all 3 cases of girls with some locals commenting as well. Some new information there mention that Vicky Glass was using drugs since around 18 years old and became addicted. Shortly after she left home and turned into prostitution. She disappeared when she was 21 years old in 2000 from city centre and her body was found 6 weeks later dumped in stream in very small village of Dunby. She was found nude.

Rachel Wilson was also vulnerable and turned into prostitution to pay for her drug addiction. She disappeared when 19 in 2002 and her body was found 10 years later in Newham Hall Farm Estate, Coulby Newham. Her remains were also nude and clothes never recovered. Cause of death was not able to be determined.

As we can't link to reddit here, search for title - The Murder of 3 Girls in Middlesbrough,UK - Donna Keogh, Vicky Glass and Rachel Wilson - 1998, 2000, 2002.
 
Not directly related to these murders, but might give a sense of the area.
''A street in Middlesbrough - BBC Newsnight
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Al Ka said:
Case featuring on Cleveland police website, again with lots of information and photos but on one page - Find Donna

News and Updates

Excavation ends at former allotment site
25/07/2018
Search activity related to an historic murder case in Middlesbrough has concluded, with the investigation into the death of a teenager in 1998 continuing. Police and a specialist search team started work at a former allotment site near to Troon Close, Middlesbrough on Monday 18th June as part of the investigation into the disappearance of Donna Keogh from Middlesbrough in 1998 when she was just 17 years old. Donna has never been found and her disappearance is being treated as a murder investigation.

Today (Wednesday 25th July) police announced that the excavation work at Troon Close would conclude this week. During the course of the excavation a fragment of human jaw bone was recovered, however forensic testing (including DNA testing and radiocarbon dating) has confirmed that it is not related to the murder investigation and dates back to the early-medieval period.

Detective Chief Superintendent Jon Green said: “Donna’s family desperately want to give her a proper funeral and finally lay her body to rest, and finding Donna continues to be a priority for the investigation team.

“This has been a complex and thorough search conducted over a number of weeks and I would like to thank all those who have taken part for their efforts. This has not been easy work, especially given the temperatures our search teams have been working in, and they have demonstrated exceptional professionalism and dedication.

“The recovery of a bone fragment slowed the search considerably and has been the main reason the search activity lasted as long as it did. As well as our search teams, I would like to take local residents for supporting us over this extended length of time.

“Our search at Troon Close came about because our investigation identified it as an area of interest. Other areas of interest have also been identified where we will be conducting targeted searches in the coming months.”

To support the investigation, the public can visit www.finddonna.co.uk to view details about Donna’s life, her disappearance and the police’s on-going investigation.

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Assistant Chief Constable Jason Harwin said: “The HIU will look into the deaths of Vicky Glass in 2000, Rachel Wilson in 2002 and the disappearance of Donna Keogh in 1998.

“There is commonality between the cases through the sex and ages of the victims and all being linked geographically to Middlesbrough. It is too early in the re-investigations to say if there are any other links.

“In our funding bid to the Home Office we made it clear that these are complex investigations that will require meticulous investigation over a number of years to complete. We will continue to work closely with the families of the three victims to keep them informed of developments and will also seek the ongoing support the public, and the media, as the investigations progress.”
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Funding bid to the Home Office makes my blood boil, if the investigation by Cleveland Police had not been such a b***s up there would not have to be a funding bid.
 
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