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EMERGENCY OPERATOR:
Hello, police emergency,

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what's your emergency?

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(SIREN WAILS)

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SHIRLEY: You don't, kind of,
think of a murder on your doorstep.

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Is it possible to get away
with murder?

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What does a killer do

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after committing
the most heinous of crimes?

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PETER: This was a cold,
calculating, callous murder.

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Do they carry on as normal,
and hide in plain sight?

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Or go on the run?

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(HORNS HONK)

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How do the actions of a killer,
after their crime,

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influence the police investigation?

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Those are all alarm bells that
would be ringing for the police.

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That's exactly how
psychopaths work,

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they see the world
and then they control it.

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By focusing on the aftermath,

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we unpick the mindset of a killer...

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Understand the motive,
and reveal what the killer did next.

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For newly married couple,
Adrian and Kate Prout,

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the rural village of Redmarley,
with its acres of green fields,

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was the perfect place to settle.

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The couple met in 1999,
through Kate's brother.

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They quickly formed a relationship
and married in 2000

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and set up home together
in the village of Redmarley

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where they bought a farm.

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It's a sort of normal
village community really,

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with a school and a church,

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a pub down
at the bottom of the road.

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It's a very uneventful village
really in many ways.

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Nothing significant really happens,

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uh, which is quite how we like it.

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Having come
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Adrian was keen
to build up his own farm

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with new wife Kate,
a retired teacher,

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so they pooled their savings
to buy their dream home.

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Kate Prout
was born into a family of farmers

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and after she retired,
she was a pillar of the community.

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This is the Redmarley woods
to the left here,

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which is where
the pheasant shoots were held

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and right the way across here
is the farm

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and he used to go round
in an old clapped out Land Rover,

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which he used to feed the pheasants.

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So, he was frequently down there.

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He used to grow cereals
and things of that kind.

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He was pretty active
as a businessman I think.

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He had quite a bit of farm machinery
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including a nice JCB.

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While Adrian
ran the business side of things,

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wife Kate settled into the more
social side of the community.

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They seemed quite friendly
when I spoke to them,

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and I used to see her...
see her more than I used to see him

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because always she used to be
walking with their two dogs.

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Kate Prout was
a retired primary school teacher.

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She was very well liked
within the community,

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involved in a lot of activities
within the area she lived as well.

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Over the years,
the couple integrated more and more,

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with Adrian becoming well known
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mostly due to the success
of his pheasant shoots.

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I think he liked to have them
every weekend

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or every couple of weekends.

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And the guns would get
in the woods there,

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shoot as many as they could.

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Farmers that used to come
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and have a big game shoot there,
you know,

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and, of course,
he had the gamekeepers

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to make sure
that foxes and other people

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or that didn't,
kind of, take them,

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help themselves to a bit.

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But he had quite a...quite
a good thing going there I think.

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But as Adrian's business grew,

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locals noticed the couple appeared
to spend more time apart.

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His wife used to go
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and she would talk
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and the general feeling was

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that it was a bit of
a strained relationship.

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She went on holiday
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separate...separate from Adrian.

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With the couple
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and even holidaying separately,

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it didn't appear unusual
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when in November 2007,

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they hadn't seen Kate
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Well, I thought, she's gone away
for a holiday or something.

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The general consensus was that

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she's run off
with somebody or whatever,

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the normal type
of village gossip really.

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None of it based on fact of course.

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But village gossip aside,

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Adrian Prout becomes concerned
about his wife's whereabouts

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after five days missing,

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and calls the police.

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EMERGENCY OPERATOR: Police
emergency, what's your emergency?

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Police log the call
as a missing person report

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and need to establish if Kate has
simply gone away of her own accord,

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or if something more sinister
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So, on 10 November, 2007,

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that's the day that Adrian Prout

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reported his wife
Kate Prout as missing

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and police then attended
Redhill Farm

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to take the missing person report,

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and provide a grading
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medium or high risk missing person.

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Well, the first thing
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on receiving a missing person report

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is establish whether
this was very unusual for them.

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Some people have quite,
you know, flighty lifestyles,

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they go off on holiday,
they nip off here and there.

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How unusual is it
that this person has gone missing?

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Police hope Adrian can give them
an insight into Kate's mindset,

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to see if they can ascertain
where she might be.

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So, they call him in for a chat.

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In any missing persons case,

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police need to put together
a timeline

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of the person's
last known movements.

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RICHARD: Kate Prout was last seen
at her home in Redmarley.

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The last time she was heard
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on the 5th November 2007,

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when she made a phone call
to her bank

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regarding some money
she was looking to withdraw

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from a joint account
with her husband.

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In terms of somebody
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potentially that could indicate that
they might be looking to go missing.

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Kate was
an independently wealthy woman,

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having been left inheritance
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and had the financial means
to make a new life for herself...

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But where could she have gone?

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But as six days pass,
and with no sightings of Kate,

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a police missing person
investigation intensifies.

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MALE REPORTER: Now, Kate Prout
went missing on November 5.

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She lived and worked
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in Redmarley in the Forest of Dean.

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Concern
for Kate's welfare increases.

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Is there more to her disappearance
than meets the eye?

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There's so many tales
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you don't know what to believe
and what not to believe.

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That she'd just left him
and gone.

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And as the hunt gathers pace...

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The family are desperate
to know what's happened to her.

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..police take action.

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(SIREN WAILS)

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In Gloucestershire,
police are making enquiries

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as to the whereabouts
of farmer's wife, Kate Prout,

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who was reported missing
by her husband Adrian.

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Having interviewed Adrian

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about his wife's
last known movements,

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police attention turns
to the community.

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It's quite a small community

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so the community
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to talk amongst themselves about it.

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Word would soon get round
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information would come back
in to the police as well.

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There was a knock
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you know,
and there was enquiry and they said

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"When was the last time
"you seen her?

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Have you seen her with her dogs?"

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and things like that,

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"Have you seen her dogs loose?"

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Because they thought perhaps
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and...

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but I don't think
anybody really had seen her

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or heard anything about her.

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At this early stage,

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the police would be wanting
to rule out the fact

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that she's just disappeared
of her own free will.

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She might have come
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and be out there needing some help,
can't walk for example.

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Or there might have been something
more sinister happened to her.

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None of the locals have seen Kate
since her disappearance,

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but they do provide the police
with new information.

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But there has been some issues
in the relationship recently,

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and Kate had moved out

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for a short time
before they reconciled.

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So, neighbours presumed
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She'd left...

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because of the tensions
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and his view
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eventually.

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The police would be looking
into other possibilities

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in terms of where Kate
may have gone.

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It could be that she'd have
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tried to go on holiday for example,

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tried to get away
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with Adrian for a number of days.

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These are all possibilities that
the police would be looking into,

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but they could also do that
in tandem with searching

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quite intensively
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There'd be a lot of different
strands of the investigation

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happening at the same time.

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There was nothing to suggest
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that there had been foul play.

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Enquiries reveal

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Kate is a wealthy woman
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having been left
a large inheritance.

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Having been on holiday several times

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over the past year
with other people,

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police wonder
if she's met someone else.

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Without any concrete leads,

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the police make a direct appeal
to the public for information.

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NEWS REPORTER: Kate Prout
was last seen on 5 November.

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Her husband Adrian
is currently staying with friends

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while police search for her.

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Today, they made a direct appeal
for her to come forward.

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Kate,
if you're watching this broadcast,

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and you're able to do so,
we urge you to contact us.

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Police enquiries intensify
and calls to Kate's bank

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and mobile phone provider
immediately spark concerns.

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These are kind of your proof
of life checks,

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you're looking to see whether
that person has had any activity

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on these things
before they went missing

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and then anything afterwards.

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If they suddenly stop,

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that indicates the person
may have passed away.

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People have got to live somehow,
they need money,

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they need their belongings,

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so if they don't have
any of those things,

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and there's no evidence of them
having access to funds,

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then there is a real fear
that something has happened to them.

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People don't just disappear off
the face of the earth for no reason.

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So, we're really looking to then

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see whether there is any indication
that person is still alive.

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If the answer to that is no,

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then we're really considering

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this ought to be
a murder investigation

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and really ramping up
the police response,

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getting more resources
in to search the area.

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Police find no evidence
of a digital footprint

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since she went missing.

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It appears Kate has vanished
without a trace.

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Suddenly, the missing persons
investigation changes focus,

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as police make a decision.

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RICHARD: Police arrested
Adrian Prout on 27 November 2007.

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They would be wanting
to interview him,

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see if his account matched up
with the account

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he initially gave to the police
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after Kate was reported missing.

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This is a very strong statistic,
two a week, on average,

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women killed by a former partner,

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which always puts
a partner or a former partner

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at the top of the list of suspects
when somebody goes missing.

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News travels fast
around the community.

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Could Adrian really be
behind Kate's disappearance?

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SHIRLEY: Wait.

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I think I was told
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couldn't really believe it really.

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We saw this reporter standing there
in front of our house,

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talking about a suspected crime
in Redmarley (LAUGHS),

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and as you can well imagine,

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that sort of got our attention
for a while,

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and we were a bit puzzled really.

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NEWS REPORTER: Gloucestershire
police say that this morning

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they've arrested a 45-year-old man
on suspicion of murder

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and he continues to be questioned.

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With Adrian under arrest,
the investigation ramps up.

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Gloucester police
are now able to search the home...

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and they deploy 50 officers,
heat sensing helicopters,

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and sniffer dogs
to trawl the 276 acres of farmland.

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By arresting him
they bring in greater powers

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of search of the property,

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can seize things like his computer,
mobile phones,

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things that may have
some sort of digital evidence

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that might link him
to the disappearance of Kate Prout.

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I was out in the garden,
doing whatever I was doing

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and this helicopter
was at quite low level

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and was circling round here
all the time

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and it had an arm out the side
with a device on the end,

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which I thought
was probably a camera,

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but it was up there
for quite a long time.

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The police did a very good job,

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I mean, they were round here
quite a long time

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and they, you know, they seemed
to search everywhere

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that they could think of...

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and I mean,
they came back two or three times

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to ask you
if you'd thought about anything

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and we remembered something but...

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The frenzied police activity
brings a media circus to Redmarley,

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a quaint rural village
formerly well known

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only amongst the farming community.

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Press agency journalist
Emily Pennink

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was one of those alerted
to the story.

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The story was a huge part of...

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of our daily news,

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so I was following
all the developments.

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I think it really caught
the imagination of the media

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because of who she was

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and the life that she had led
before her disappearance.

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Despite the intense searches,
the police uncover no evidence

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linking Adrian Prout
to his wife's disappearance.

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They had no choice
but to release him without charge,

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and concede perhaps Kate Prout

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has just disappeared
of her own free will.

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This was very difficult
for the police,

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there was no body, no crime scene,

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there was no clues,
there was no motivation.

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The police had no positive evidence

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to suggest
that she had come to harm,

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so there was still a chance
that she was safe

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and she'd simply gone off on holiday
and hadn't told anybody,

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like, you know,
people...people do sometimes.

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With Adrian released,

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and once the initial commotion
dies down,

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life in the village
goes back to normal.

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I did see him around

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and he would pass
the time of day with you,

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but that was all.

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He carried on as normal,

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carried on with his work
and ran his business.

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He continued farming

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and continued to run
the pheasant shoot as well,

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and spent most of his time
doing that.

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And so for Adrian Prout,
life moves on.

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He met a new woman, fell in love...

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and they start a new life together.

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The whole thing sort of
faded away to a large extent,

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and that was really the end of it.

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We didn't really hear
any more about it.

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He had a girlfriend down the road.

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Adrian Prout
may have forgotten about his wife

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but police haven't.

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A key discovery

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during another in depth search
of the house...

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casts extreme doubt
on Kate's missing status.

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Kate's passport
and bank cards are found.

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They found her passport
and all the other stuff,

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credit cards and so on,
was still in the house.

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Adrian Prout
is arrested for a second time.

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The evidence
is still quite circumstantial,

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there's no body,

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so it's a real struggle to actually
corroborate sufficient evidence

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to charge him
with the murder of Kate Prout,

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but it indicates that he is clearly
a suspect in this case.

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Rumours now flood
through the village.

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Well, they all had their
own points of view, you know...

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they said
"Oh, I suspect he's burnt her

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"and gave her to the pigs,
the pigs had eaten her."

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All kinds of things like that.

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Police believe Adrian Prout

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knows more about the disappearance
of his wife Kate

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than he's letting on,

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but once again,
they don't have enough evidence...

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and he is released.

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With police
still searching for Kate Prout,

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they soon make
a surprising discovery.

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It appears
Kate has left clues behind...

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It really exposed what was going on
in their relationship.

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..but will they lead police
to Adrian's door for a third time?

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In Gloucestershire,
Kate Prout remains a missing person.

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Another year passes.

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Police suspect she's been killed

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but despite her husband
having been arrested twice,

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there's no evidence
linking him to her disappearance

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and no charges have been brought.

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A case such as this would be
immensely challenging

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for all involved
from the police point of view.

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Investigation team,
through to the people searching,

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they will all be feeling
real pressure

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to try and find Kate Prout,

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and try and bring
some sort of closure to the family.

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After 14 months,
police inform Adrian Prout

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he is no longer a suspect
in his wife's disappearance.

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He moves on with his life,

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asking his girlfriend, Debbie,
to move in with him.

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The couple soon announce
they are expecting a child together.

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What we can see from his behaviour,
getting into a new relationship,

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getting a woman pregnant
within that relationship,

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he's certainly not concerned
about where his wife's gone.

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It's about him
ultimately starting his new life.

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But then everything changes.

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So, Adrian Prout
might have felt that

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it was all going to quieten down

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and Kate's disappearance

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would just slowly, slowly fade away,

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but the police hadn't given up

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and they uncovered
Kate Prout's diary.

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KATE: Sunday, 18 March, 2007.

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Awoke with Adrian, nice time.

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Met with him after 'The Archers'
to discuss our future.

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Then he told me that he did not want
to continue being my husband.

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Wanted a divorce as had
no real feelings for me anymore.

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I wonder how his mind works.

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He seems so mixed up inside
and I still care for him so much.

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It's all over for good.

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No hope for a future together.

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Devastated really,
as I still have hope.

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Officially separated now
as very frightened to return.

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He went mad, I really thought
that my end had come.

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I was very, very shaken.

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So, Kate's diary revealed

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a number of
domestic violence issues,

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a rather turbulent marriage
to Adrian Prout.

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It seemed that
he was a very controlling partner

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and Kate was the one
who was controlled,

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and, from that perspective,

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it followed
a very typical trajectory

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of a coercively
controlling marriage.

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And the domestic violence
wasn't all.

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00:25:16,621 --> 00:25:18,341
It seems that the marriage
was still quite turbulent,

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00:25:18,421 --> 00:25:21,621
they were looking to divorce around
the time that she disappeared.

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00:25:23,501 --> 00:25:26,061
The discovery of Kate Prout's diary

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leads police to uncover
the crux of the divorce proceedings.

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At the very heart of this case

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00:25:32,821 --> 00:25:36,501
is difficulties
over the divorce settlement.

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00:25:36,581 --> 00:25:39,621
Kate Prout wanted 800,000 pounds.

404
00:25:39,701 --> 00:25:44,581
Adrian Prout offered 600,000 pounds

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00:25:44,661 --> 00:25:47,221
and he really
didn't want to give her

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00:25:47,301 --> 00:25:48,941
any more money than that,

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00:25:49,021 --> 00:25:50,581
because if he had,

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00:25:50,661 --> 00:25:53,621
it would have meant him
having to sell the farm,

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00:25:53,701 --> 00:25:55,221
and really changing his life.

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00:25:57,981 --> 00:26:02,141
For Adrian, knowing that his wife

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00:26:02,221 --> 00:26:04,061
was not only leaving him,

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00:26:04,141 --> 00:26:06,901
therefore taking back
control of her own life,

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00:26:06,981 --> 00:26:10,701
she was financially
going to take from him also,

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00:26:10,781 --> 00:26:15,341
and the problem there is that
she was considered a possession.

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00:26:15,421 --> 00:26:18,461
Adrian saw her as an object
that he owned.

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00:26:18,541 --> 00:26:20,901
The minute that she has
the potential to leave him,

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00:26:20,981 --> 00:26:23,781
and also take
his possessions with her,

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00:26:23,861 --> 00:26:25,541
well that's a problem
that needs to be solved.

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00:26:36,981 --> 00:26:40,221
Sixteen months
after Kate's disappearance,

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and police finally
have enough evidence

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00:26:42,901 --> 00:26:47,021
and, crucially,
a motive to make their move.

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00:26:47,101 --> 00:26:51,621
They now believe Adrian Prout
murdered his wife over money,

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00:26:51,701 --> 00:26:53,501
but they still need to find a body.

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00:26:55,221 --> 00:26:57,381
The fact that
there's an ongoing divorce issue

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and that money is a factor in that.

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Those are all alarm bells
that will be ringing for the police.

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00:27:02,541 --> 00:27:04,661
On 10 March, 2009,

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00:27:04,741 --> 00:27:07,101
Adrian Prout
is arrested for a third time

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on suspicion of murder.

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He is then charged
with the murder of Kate Prout

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and appears
at Cheltenham Magistrates Court.

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00:27:15,341 --> 00:27:19,101
It would have been a case
of third time lucky for the police

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00:27:19,181 --> 00:27:20,781
and there would have been
a real feeling

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00:27:20,861 --> 00:27:22,781
that there was finally
some movement.

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00:27:27,021 --> 00:27:29,501
Ten months after he is charged,

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00:27:29,581 --> 00:27:33,181
Adrian arrives for his trial,
flanked by new girlfriend Debbie.

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00:27:37,821 --> 00:27:40,381
Despite having never found
the body of Kate,

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00:27:40,461 --> 00:27:43,621
the prosecution needs
to convince a jury she is dead...

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00:27:45,941 --> 00:27:47,421
and that Adrian killed her.

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00:27:49,301 --> 00:27:50,901
The police and the CPS
worked really hard,

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00:27:50,981 --> 00:27:53,781
they did a great job in actually
bringing this case to court,

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00:27:53,861 --> 00:27:55,421
but they would have
had a nagging doubt

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00:27:55,501 --> 00:27:59,261
in the back of their mind that
they might not have won this case.

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00:27:59,341 --> 00:28:01,501
No body convictions...

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00:28:02,581 --> 00:28:04,861
we have got some convictions

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00:28:04,941 --> 00:28:06,941
but they're
very, very difficult to get

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00:28:07,021 --> 00:28:10,901
and that's largely because,
you know, in a court

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00:28:10,981 --> 00:28:12,941
it has to be beyond
reasonable doubt,

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00:28:13,021 --> 00:28:15,901
and if the body isn't there
to give us the clues,

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00:28:15,981 --> 00:28:19,301
to give us those forensics,
to tell us the story,

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00:28:19,381 --> 00:28:22,781
it's very, very difficult then
to create a story

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00:28:22,861 --> 00:28:26,941
that's plausible and convincing
for a jury.

453
00:28:34,621 --> 00:28:35,741
Two years and three months

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00:28:35,821 --> 00:28:38,461
to the day
of Kate Prout's disappearance,

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00:28:38,541 --> 00:28:40,861
Adrian Prout
is convicted of her murder.

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00:28:43,861 --> 00:28:48,301
He is sentenced to life
with a minimum term of 18 years.

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00:28:48,381 --> 00:28:49,741
There'd be real mixed emotions.

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00:28:49,821 --> 00:28:51,741
You'd be feeling quite pleased

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00:28:51,821 --> 00:28:54,261
that there'd been a conviction
of Adrian Prout,

460
00:28:54,341 --> 00:28:57,581
but at the same time there would be
that continual frustration

461
00:28:57,661 --> 00:28:58,941
that the body was never found.

462
00:28:59,021 --> 00:29:01,341
You can never bring
that closure to the family

463
00:29:01,421 --> 00:29:03,141
and as a result of that,
you'd always feel like

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00:29:03,221 --> 00:29:05,301
you'd let the family down
to a certain extent.

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00:29:06,461 --> 00:29:08,781
Adrian Prout is in prison,

466
00:29:08,861 --> 00:29:10,741
but his new fiancee Debbie,

467
00:29:10,821 --> 00:29:14,021
family and friends
refuse to believe his guilt,

468
00:29:14,101 --> 00:29:16,821
with a huge wave of support
behind him,

469
00:29:16,901 --> 00:29:19,621
a miscarriage
of justice campaign begins.

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00:29:22,421 --> 00:29:26,021
Adrian Prout
had always protested his innocence

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00:29:26,101 --> 00:29:27,541
quite strongly

472
00:29:27,621 --> 00:29:30,221
and a lot of people believed

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00:29:30,301 --> 00:29:33,061
that he had nothing to do
with Kate's disappearance,

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00:29:33,141 --> 00:29:35,061
let alone murdered her.

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00:29:35,141 --> 00:29:36,741
What's compelling
about Adrian's behaviour

476
00:29:36,821 --> 00:29:40,621
is the community know
that he's been abusive to Kate,

477
00:29:40,701 --> 00:29:43,141
so when she goes missing,
you'd automatically imagine,

478
00:29:43,221 --> 00:29:46,301
wouldn't you, that they'd think,
well, it's clearly him,

479
00:29:46,381 --> 00:29:50,621
but actually they don't feel that,
and he has a great deal of support.

480
00:29:50,701 --> 00:29:53,061
People believe
he's completely innocent.

481
00:29:53,141 --> 00:29:56,461
With a campaign
to release Adrian Prout growing,

482
00:29:56,541 --> 00:29:59,301
police are desperate
to find Kate's body,

483
00:29:59,381 --> 00:30:03,301
to prove beyond doubt
that the right man is behind bars.

484
00:30:03,381 --> 00:30:04,901
By recovering a body

485
00:30:04,981 --> 00:30:07,181
you then have another crime scene
to work with.

486
00:30:07,261 --> 00:30:10,901
You can recover forensic evidence,
you can do post mortem examinations,

487
00:30:10,981 --> 00:30:13,261
and actually establish
how that person died.

488
00:30:17,981 --> 00:30:20,021
After two and a half years,

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00:30:20,101 --> 00:30:23,661
and with one man in jail
with no new evidence,

490
00:30:23,741 --> 00:30:25,061
police reluctantly reveal

491
00:30:25,141 --> 00:30:27,381
they are calling off the search
for Kate Prout.

492
00:30:29,381 --> 00:30:32,061
With a police search like this,
it will come to a stage

493
00:30:32,141 --> 00:30:34,181
where they've exhausted
all the lines of enquiry,

494
00:30:34,261 --> 00:30:36,301
there is literally nothing else
for the police to do

495
00:30:36,381 --> 00:30:37,781
that can progress the case.

496
00:30:37,861 --> 00:30:39,741
It would have been
a very frustrating decision

497
00:30:39,821 --> 00:30:40,941
for the police to make.

498
00:30:41,021 --> 00:30:42,901
They would have really
wanted to find Kate's body

499
00:30:42,981 --> 00:30:44,621
and bring some sort of closure
to the family,

500
00:30:44,701 --> 00:30:46,541
but there has to come a point
where they draw that line

501
00:30:46,621 --> 00:30:49,821
and say we can't do any more here
to try and resolve this case.

502
00:30:52,981 --> 00:30:54,741
With police retreating,

503
00:30:54,821 --> 00:30:57,981
the campaign
to free Adrian Prout intensifies,

504
00:30:58,061 --> 00:31:01,101
and his fiancee Debbie
deploys a final weapon,

505
00:31:01,181 --> 00:31:03,181
in a drastic bid
to prove his innocence.

506
00:31:06,701 --> 00:31:11,701
She persuades her partner
to take a lie detector test

507
00:31:11,781 --> 00:31:16,021
so that she can satisfy herself
and gather some evidence.

508
00:31:18,421 --> 00:31:19,541
DON: My name's Don Cargill.

509
00:31:19,621 --> 00:31:21,261
I'm a Polygraph Examiner.

510
00:31:21,341 --> 00:31:23,541
The correct title
for a Polygraph Examiner

511
00:31:23,621 --> 00:31:26,421
is a Forensic Psycho-physiologist,

512
00:31:26,501 --> 00:31:30,181
which means detection
by psychology and physiology.

513
00:31:30,261 --> 00:31:33,821
Adrian's girlfriend hopes
the outcome of the lie detector test

514
00:31:33,901 --> 00:31:35,381
will support his case.

515
00:31:36,661 --> 00:31:39,861
I spoke to Debbie
over the phone many, many times,

516
00:31:39,941 --> 00:31:42,021
and then we got the questions right.

517
00:31:42,101 --> 00:31:44,661
And the result
all hangs on one question.

518
00:31:46,541 --> 00:31:50,621
Very simple question don't forget,
did you kill your wife Kate?

519
00:31:56,421 --> 00:31:57,781
Adrian Prout has been jailed

520
00:31:57,861 --> 00:32:01,861
for the murder of his wife Kate,
who disappeared in 2007.

521
00:32:03,301 --> 00:32:07,021
Her body has never been found,
but her diary was,

522
00:32:07,101 --> 00:32:10,741
and it detailed a marriage
blighted by domestic violence,

523
00:32:10,821 --> 00:32:13,981
heading for divorce,
and bitter arguments over money.

524
00:32:19,341 --> 00:32:22,541
While police believe
they have the right man behind bars,

525
00:32:22,621 --> 00:32:26,661
Adrian's new fiancee Debbie,
mother to his baby daughter,

526
00:32:26,741 --> 00:32:29,061
is heading a campaign
for his release,

527
00:32:29,141 --> 00:32:31,861
claiming his conviction
is a miscarriage of justice.

528
00:32:35,461 --> 00:32:37,901
He was obviously,
clearly, promoting the idea

529
00:32:37,981 --> 00:32:41,221
that he was not responsible
for her demise.

530
00:32:41,301 --> 00:32:44,781
People supported his view
and believed him.

531
00:32:44,861 --> 00:32:46,941
There was a real
lack of evidence in the case.

532
00:32:47,021 --> 00:32:50,501
There was no body, the evidence
was largely circumstantial,

533
00:32:50,581 --> 00:32:54,181
and Adrian Prout
was convincing a lot of people

534
00:32:54,261 --> 00:32:55,701
that he was innocent along the way.

535
00:33:01,461 --> 00:33:03,861
Having served 18 months in prison,

536
00:33:03,941 --> 00:33:07,941
it's finally time for Adrian Prout
to take the lie detector test.

537
00:33:10,941 --> 00:33:14,021
He has to sign a consent
form to allow me to do the test

538
00:33:14,101 --> 00:33:17,741
and he seemed to want to think
about it at great length.

539
00:33:18,861 --> 00:33:23,141
I kept popping back and eventually
he said, "OK, I may as well.

540
00:33:23,221 --> 00:33:27,061
I may as well, for Debbie's sake."

541
00:33:27,141 --> 00:33:28,301
"No, do it for your own sake"

542
00:33:28,381 --> 00:33:31,581
I said, he said "No, I may
as well do it, OK, I'll go ahead".

543
00:33:32,901 --> 00:33:34,181
So, we did it.

544
00:33:36,901 --> 00:33:40,061
Adrian Prout
answers the questions put to him,

545
00:33:40,141 --> 00:33:43,301
hoping the results might
allow police to re-open the case,

546
00:33:43,381 --> 00:33:44,901
allowing him to go free.

547
00:33:46,221 --> 00:33:49,661
He did the test
and the questions were very simple,

548
00:33:49,741 --> 00:33:51,101
did you kill your wife?

549
00:33:51,181 --> 00:33:52,781
Did you pay anybody else
to kill your wife?

550
00:33:52,861 --> 00:33:55,021
Do you know where the body is?
Etcetera.

551
00:33:55,101 --> 00:33:57,341
So, he was answering no.

552
00:33:58,781 --> 00:34:03,381
When Don examines the results,
they are astounding.

553
00:34:03,461 --> 00:34:04,421
At the end of it I said,

554
00:34:04,501 --> 00:34:06,381
"My charts are showing that
you're a murderer."

555
00:34:09,741 --> 00:34:12,261
And he went "Mm-hm,"

556
00:34:12,341 --> 00:34:14,061
that was a little shrug
of his shoulder...

557
00:34:15,901 --> 00:34:17,781
and I said, "Are you saying
my charts are wrong?"

558
00:34:19,501 --> 00:34:21,741
And he said,
"No, they're not wrong,"

559
00:34:21,821 --> 00:34:23,301
under his breath.

560
00:34:23,381 --> 00:34:24,381
That was enough for me.

561
00:34:28,021 --> 00:34:31,581
Adrian's downfall is clearly
taking the polygraph test.

562
00:34:31,661 --> 00:34:33,341
When you take a lie detector test,

563
00:34:33,421 --> 00:34:36,421
unless you are specifically trained
in how to get through them,

564
00:34:36,501 --> 00:34:39,021
the likelihood
is that you will fail,

565
00:34:39,101 --> 00:34:41,181
but there's some pressure there.

566
00:34:41,261 --> 00:34:43,181
He has his supporters,

567
00:34:43,261 --> 00:34:45,301
so if he's unwilling
to take that test,

568
00:34:45,381 --> 00:34:49,021
to some degree,
he's evidencing his guilt.

569
00:34:49,101 --> 00:34:50,821
So, he takes a risk.

570
00:34:50,901 --> 00:34:56,021
He believes that maybe
he can be the one to get through it.

571
00:34:56,101 --> 00:34:57,621
When I spoke to Debbie,

572
00:34:57,701 --> 00:34:59,901
obviously
it's very difficult conversation

573
00:34:59,981 --> 00:35:00,941
I'm going to have with her.

574
00:35:01,021 --> 00:35:04,221
Because this is the first time,
she believes in a guy for so long,

575
00:35:04,301 --> 00:35:06,861
and loved the guy so much,
had a child by him,

576
00:35:06,941 --> 00:35:08,941
that I'm gonna break
the bad news to her that...

577
00:35:09,021 --> 00:35:10,941
sorry, but you've been misguided,

578
00:35:11,021 --> 00:35:14,141
and that your fiance
is actually a murderer.

579
00:35:14,221 --> 00:35:17,541
You could see the resignation in her
to what I was thinking and going,

580
00:35:17,621 --> 00:35:19,581
this is not what I wanted.

581
00:35:19,661 --> 00:35:23,261
Adrian Prout murdered his wife Kate,

582
00:35:23,341 --> 00:35:26,821
but for almost four years
he's denied his involvement

583
00:35:26,901 --> 00:35:30,101
and denied Kate's family
the chance to bury her

584
00:35:30,181 --> 00:35:31,741
and fully grieve for her.

585
00:35:32,941 --> 00:35:35,341
Having failed the polygraph test,

586
00:35:35,421 --> 00:35:38,341
his devastated fiancee Debbie
confronts him,

587
00:35:38,421 --> 00:35:40,581
begging him to reveal the truth.

588
00:35:42,221 --> 00:35:44,821
He just said, he just confessed.

589
00:35:46,941 --> 00:35:48,261
INTERVIEWER:
What were the words he used?

590
00:35:49,941 --> 00:35:51,381
I'm sorry, I did.

591
00:35:54,581 --> 00:35:56,661
What's really significant
about this case

592
00:35:56,741 --> 00:36:00,581
is just how convincing
a murderer can be.

593
00:36:00,661 --> 00:36:06,021
That you can literally carry out
a brutal killing of your wife

594
00:36:06,101 --> 00:36:08,341
and then seemingly convince
the whole world

595
00:36:08,421 --> 00:36:09,701
that you're an innocent man.

596
00:36:15,781 --> 00:36:18,141
Four years after Kate went missing,

597
00:36:18,221 --> 00:36:20,501
and with the hunt
for her body having gone cold...

598
00:36:23,901 --> 00:36:26,661
police have
their biggest breakthrough.

599
00:36:26,741 --> 00:36:29,861
Adrian Prout agrees to show police
where her body is.

600
00:36:32,421 --> 00:36:34,941
Having now confirmed
he murdered Kate,

601
00:36:35,021 --> 00:36:37,741
it leaves one unanswered question.

602
00:36:37,821 --> 00:36:40,661
What had happened
on that fateful day four years ago?

603
00:36:50,021 --> 00:36:52,261
On the day of the murder,
Adrian Prout is preparing

604
00:36:52,341 --> 00:36:54,741
a pheasant shoot
for the following day.

605
00:36:54,821 --> 00:36:56,821
Kate Prout goes to see him

606
00:36:56,901 --> 00:36:58,421
and there's an argument
around the divorce,

607
00:36:58,501 --> 00:36:59,701
around the money.

608
00:37:01,261 --> 00:37:02,781
He then strangles her.

609
00:37:11,141 --> 00:37:12,941
He then wraps her body in a curtain

610
00:37:13,021 --> 00:37:15,901
and puts the body in the back
of the Land Rover...

611
00:37:15,981 --> 00:37:17,221
and goes to the pub.

612
00:37:22,261 --> 00:37:26,221
Firstly, he's having a pint
with his friends, acting normally,

613
00:37:26,301 --> 00:37:28,821
whilst his dead wife
is in the back of his Land Rover,

614
00:37:28,901 --> 00:37:30,141
but then to wake up
the following day

615
00:37:30,221 --> 00:37:31,181
and go on a pheasant shoot,

616
00:37:31,261 --> 00:37:33,501
it demonstrates
that he clearly thinks

617
00:37:33,581 --> 00:37:34,901
that he's gonna get away with it.

618
00:37:34,981 --> 00:37:36,301
He has no concern,

619
00:37:36,381 --> 00:37:38,141
he's just not connected
to this crime at all.

620
00:37:38,221 --> 00:37:40,061
She's a problem,
he's created a solution

621
00:37:40,141 --> 00:37:42,141
and everything is gonna be alright.

622
00:37:42,221 --> 00:37:44,221
During this period,
that lack of remorse,

623
00:37:44,301 --> 00:37:46,941
that lack of compassion,
that lack of concern,

624
00:37:47,021 --> 00:37:50,821
and that focus on himself
to move on to another relationship,

625
00:37:50,901 --> 00:37:55,701
is very, very typical of somebody
on the psychopathic spectrum.

626
00:37:55,781 --> 00:37:58,821
The type of person
who is very self focused

627
00:37:58,901 --> 00:38:00,261
and lives in the moment.

628
00:38:02,061 --> 00:38:05,621
Even in police interviews
after Kate's disappearance,

629
00:38:05,701 --> 00:38:07,621
Adrian remains aloof

630
00:38:07,701 --> 00:38:10,061
and seemingly unaffected
by the situation.

631
00:38:11,301 --> 00:38:14,701
We now know this is the voice
of the cold blooded killer

632
00:38:14,781 --> 00:38:18,421
who, just six days earlier,
had strangled his wife.

633
00:38:33,101 --> 00:38:36,261
When Adrian Prout's interviewed
by the police,

634
00:38:36,341 --> 00:38:40,061
he appears to be
completely unemotional

635
00:38:40,141 --> 00:38:41,781
and completely non concerned

636
00:38:41,861 --> 00:38:44,901
that his wife has disappeared
for a period of time,

637
00:38:44,981 --> 00:38:46,021
in fact he kind of suggests

638
00:38:46,101 --> 00:38:48,181
that this is just something
that she might have done

639
00:38:48,261 --> 00:38:50,301
because she needed
to get away, or...

640
00:38:50,381 --> 00:38:51,981
there's no real drama.

641
00:39:07,061 --> 00:39:10,901
Adrian Prout felt that
he had actually solved a problem

642
00:39:10,981 --> 00:39:12,181
through this homicide,

643
00:39:12,261 --> 00:39:14,741
so he wasn't concerned
that he had done it.

644
00:39:14,821 --> 00:39:16,301
He would have been
concerned however,

645
00:39:16,381 --> 00:39:19,061
that he wasn't held
to account for it,

646
00:39:19,141 --> 00:39:22,621
so probably his calm behaviour

647
00:39:22,701 --> 00:39:25,021
after the homicide

648
00:39:25,101 --> 00:39:27,741
was that, one, he'd solved a problem

649
00:39:27,821 --> 00:39:30,501
so he was feeling a lot calmer
than he had before,

650
00:39:30,581 --> 00:39:34,261
and he had to appear
as if he was not responsible.

651
00:39:38,581 --> 00:39:42,901
To the police
that would be wholly unusual.

652
00:39:42,981 --> 00:39:45,821
A partner whose wife has gone
missing for a period of time,

653
00:39:45,901 --> 00:39:47,421
should be panic stricken.

654
00:39:47,501 --> 00:39:50,981
Should be phoning everybody,
talking to anybody,

655
00:39:51,061 --> 00:39:53,381
searching for them wildly,

656
00:39:53,461 --> 00:39:55,581
and actually, he seems like,

657
00:39:55,661 --> 00:39:57,101
she might have
just gone down the shops.

658
00:39:59,621 --> 00:40:02,621
Despite trying to great away
with murder,

659
00:40:02,701 --> 00:40:04,501
and trying to convince
everyone around him

660
00:40:04,581 --> 00:40:06,901
he had been wrongly convicted,

661
00:40:06,981 --> 00:40:10,181
it took a simple polygraph test
to reveal Adrian Prout

662
00:40:10,261 --> 00:40:12,621
for the man he really is,

663
00:40:12,701 --> 00:40:14,101
a cold blooded killer.

664
00:40:15,461 --> 00:40:18,141
And after four years of searching,

665
00:40:18,221 --> 00:40:21,381
police are finally about to find
the body of Kate Prout.

666
00:40:31,381 --> 00:40:33,621
RICHARD:
From where the body was found,

667
00:40:33,701 --> 00:40:35,941
it's possible that Adrian Prout
put a lot of thought

668
00:40:36,021 --> 00:40:38,781
into where he buried
Kate Prout's body.

669
00:40:39,821 --> 00:40:42,981
So, much so that he probably hoped
that she would never be found

670
00:40:43,061 --> 00:40:45,781
and ultimately he may have
got away with the murder of her.

671
00:40:45,861 --> 00:40:49,621
But the pen
which housed the pheasants

672
00:40:49,701 --> 00:40:52,141
mainly is literally
in front of you there.

673
00:40:55,981 --> 00:40:59,261
And it was fenced off,
the wire fencing,

674
00:40:59,341 --> 00:41:01,661
and that was where
he put the young pheasants

675
00:41:01,741 --> 00:41:03,421
and allowed them to grow,

676
00:41:03,501 --> 00:41:07,181
obviously before releasing them
into the wild so to speak...

677
00:41:08,901 --> 00:41:12,381
and that was where
they found his wife.

678
00:41:16,381 --> 00:41:18,381
On the night of the murder,

679
00:41:18,461 --> 00:41:20,941
and after he returned from the pub,

680
00:41:21,021 --> 00:41:24,701
Adrian Prout dug a five foot deep,
five foot long hole

681
00:41:24,781 --> 00:41:28,501
inside the pheasant pen
under a feeder in the woods

682
00:41:28,581 --> 00:41:32,101
a mile from the farmhouse
he shared with wife Kate.

683
00:41:32,181 --> 00:41:34,101
It was here he dumped her body.

684
00:41:41,021 --> 00:41:44,661
At 01:00 this afternoon
we found human remains

685
00:41:44,741 --> 00:41:46,821
close to the location Adrian Prout

686
00:41:46,901 --> 00:41:49,301
identified
as the place he buried his wife.

687
00:42:04,181 --> 00:42:06,301
With a body, police could now fit

688
00:42:06,381 --> 00:42:08,741
the final pieces of the puzzle
together.

689
00:42:08,821 --> 00:42:13,621
However, a post mortem was unable
to reveal the cause of death.

690
00:42:14,981 --> 00:42:17,341
RICHARD: Whether Adrian Prout
intended to kill his wife,

691
00:42:17,421 --> 00:42:18,381
whether he planned it,

692
00:42:18,461 --> 00:42:21,181
or whether it was just something
that happened in a moment of rage,

693
00:42:21,261 --> 00:42:23,261
only he really knows.

694
00:42:23,341 --> 00:42:26,501
The actions he took after
the death of Kate Prout

695
00:42:26,581 --> 00:42:28,861
indicates that
he actually really tried

696
00:42:28,941 --> 00:42:31,381
to get away with the murder of her.

697
00:42:31,461 --> 00:42:34,261
The type of murder
that Adrian Prout carried out

698
00:42:34,341 --> 00:42:36,301
is sadly one of the most common,

699
00:42:36,381 --> 00:42:38,541
it's domestic homicide.

700
00:42:38,621 --> 00:42:40,981
It involves control and power

701
00:42:41,061 --> 00:42:43,981
and it happens regularly,
every week in the UK.