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The family of Rachel Wilson said they will not rest until her killer is found.

It was May 31, 2002, when the 19-year-old from Grove Hill went missing.

She was a sex worker at the time but there was no apparent reason for her to run away.

Police launched a missing person investigation.

Over the years, Rachel’s devastated mother Tina made emotional appeals to anyone who might know anything about her daughter’s disappearance to come forward.

But years passed without a trace.

Then in June 2012 - a decade on from her disappearance, a skeleton was found in a shallow grave at Newham Hall Farm Estate near Coulby Newham.

Rachel’s family had to wait an agonising 17 days to find out that the remains were Rachel’s.

A post-mortem examination was carried out but a cause of death could not be established.

This meant detectives are still unable to know how Rachel was killed.

A murder inquiry was launched after the body was found and a team of 20 officers were working on the investigation. This involved them revisiting all the people who were involved in the case since it opened in 2002.

The officers used a “scoring system” to determine which people were most heavily linked to the case.

The people with the highest scores were then looked at more closely.

Officers also revisited all the sex workers involved in the case - which was 262. They were all working in the area at the time Rachel disappeared.

One of the questions detectives were asking them was whether they visited the area in Coulby Newham where Rachel was found.

And Detective Superintendent Peter McPhillips said at the time that they were gaining intelligence that sex workers did go to that area with clients.

Det Supt McPhillips said there were about 4,600 people who have been involved or spoken to throughout the investigation - this included police officers who have worked on the inquiry, other sex workers and potential witnesses.

Det Supt McPhillips said at the time that the only significant piece of evidence that came from the discovery of her body was the location.

He said: “It is a very remote spot - whoever killed her must have known that area and been there before.”

No weapon was found. She had no clothes on when her remains were discovered and the post mortem led to little extra evidence.

A 57-year-old man was arrested in 2003 but released without charge. Since then no other arrests have been made.

Rachel’s mum Tina still lives in hope that her daughter’s killer will be caught.

She previously told the Gazette: “Someone out there knows what happened to my Rachel. We won’t stop until we get answers.”

And Det Supt McPhillips has previously spoken of his confidence that the killer will be brought to justice.

He said: “I still think we have a strong case. It is such an unusual location and isn’t a place that we expected to find Rachel. We can hopefully link the suspect to that location.”

Tina has previously spoken about her faith in the detectives leading the inquiry and hopes that one day she will get the call to say her daughter’s killer has finally been caught.

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