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Samantha Robins was the Intelligence Manager on the Major Crime Team at Surrey Police in May 2010 when, late in the evening, the call came in: a young mother had been murdered in her home.
What followed was a multi-pronged inquiry.
Sarah Thomas was a 38-year-old mother of three who was found in her flat in a quiet English village.
Her boyfriend raised the alarm - and was arrested.
But when it became clear he was not responsible for Sarah’s death, suspicion passed to a dark character with an horrific criminal record.
As the inquiry moved through the gears and a major manhunt was begun, detectives started leaning heavily on Samantha and her team of analysts which was sifting through the influx of sightings and clues.
Who was Sarah’s killer?
Why had he murdered her?
Where had he been spotted?
And when the full history of the killer’s criminal record became known, the manhunt became a race against time.
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The Science of a Manhunt: crime analysis