After the discovery of her body in 1989, British facial reconstruction artist Richard Neave used her skull to create a model of her physical appearance.

[2] On 7 December 1989, two construction workers installing a garden behind a house in Cardiff, Wales discovered a rolled up carpet buried in the ground.

[3] Forensic entomologists studied insect eggs around the discovery site and determined that the girl had been dead for 5 to 10 years.

When early efforts to identify the body failed, Richard Neave of Manchester University created a clay facial reconstruction of the skull.

[10] In February 2014, the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the public body responsible for investigating alleged miscarriages of justice in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, referred Charlton's conviction to the Court of Appeal, stating that there was a "real possibility" that the conviction could be overturned.