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The Night an Eight-Year-Old Vanished: The White Van Clue
The Night an Eight-Year-Old Vanished: The White Van Clue
The quiet of a West Sussex field was shattered by one ordinary detail: a white van seen driving away as an eight-year-old girl stepped through a hedgerow. Within 60 seconds Sarah Payne had disappeared; within days the search swelled to over a thousand officers and a single petrol receipt would change everything. How did one scrap of paper become the linchpin that exposed a killer?
In this episode, we tell what happened the evening Sarah Payne vanished, how the police expanded a local search into a massive operation, and how a found…
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