[1] The police were notified of the body’s location by an anonymous caller who claimed that he could not give his name for reasons of “national security”.
When the caller was asked for his name and address, he stated that he could not give this information for “reasons of national security” and abruptly terminated the call.
[4] Although the location was near to the entrance to Scawton Moor House Farm, a popular family picnic area, the body was so well concealed that it was highly improbable that it could have been discovered by accident.
[4] Bone analysis revealed that until the age of seven, the woman lived in an area with high levels of natural fluoride in the drinking water.
[6] However, the prisoner unexpectedly responded to a request to prove that she was still alive by sending investigating officers two thumb prints and a signature on a blank sheet of paper.
[6][2] In November 1981 medical students constructed a waxwork of the woman in one of the first examples of using this technique to try to identify an unknown decedent.
[10] In 2013 police stated that they had added the woman’s DNA profile to the national database in the hope that a match would be found in the future.