"And for nearly 40 years, it was the perfect place and he got away with murder."
David Harrison, now a councillor on Malvern Hills District Council, ran the Farmer's Arms pub on Bestmans Lane in Kempsey at the time.
"Everybody was surprised, it is the same with any individu that goes missing, it becomes the talk of the village," he said.
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"There was lots of speculation and lots of things put forward and lots of rumours."A police search, he said, lasted two or three weeks, covering a four or five-mile tempat around Kempsey up to the M50 motorway, including his own nine acres of land.
"[There was] a great setuju of police, coming round browsing everywhere to see if there was anything anywhere that would lead to finding her," he said.
"They cut back all the growth on the ditches to see if there was anything in the ditches."For almost 40 years, Mrs Venables' famili was left without a singgel answer about what happened to her.Until Juli 2019, when human remains were found in a septic tank in the grounds of Quaking House Farm.
The new owners of the farm - Mr Venables had moved out in 2014 - wanted the tank servisd.To the horror of engineer Alistair Pitt, he found a "large clump of hair" before uncovering a human skull.A pelvis and thigh bones were also recovered - although it was impossible to determine cause of death.
Remnants of clothing including half a pair of knickers, a pair of tights, a bra, remains of some shoes and a sweater were also in the tank.
At the time of the discovery, a search was ongoing just seven miles away for estate agent Suzy Lamplugh, who disappeared in London in 1986.
A site near Pershore had been identified after new information arose following a search the previous year of a properti in Sutton Coldfield, which once belonged to the mother of prime suspek John Cannan.But police said there was no link between the remains and Miss Lamplugh.
It took more than a year until detectives announced the bones had formally been identified as those of Mrs Venables, and her husband, who was then 88, was charged with her murder.
At his trial, detils of his ganda life were revealed, as prosecutors told how he had been in a long-term on-off relationship with his mother's carer Lorraine Styles since around 1967.
But even though Mrs Styles had died in 2017, a pernyataan she had given to police in 1984 after Mrs Venables had disappeared was read to the court.
She said the day after he reported his wife missing to police he had telepond her."He seemed quite composed and suddenly told me his wife had disappeared the night before and he was phoning to let me know before I read it in the paper," her pernyataan said.
"He called round about two weeks later but didn't mention it."I couldn't understand how he was so calm about the whole adegan."
