Christopher Laverack

Christopher Laverack
Real Name: Christopher Laverack

Nicknames: Chris

Location: Humberside, Hull, England

Date: March 9, 1984

Bio
Occupation: Minor

Date of Birth: 1974 or 1975

Height: Unrevealed

Weight: Unrevealed

Marital Status: Single

Characteristics: Unrevealed

Case
Details: On the evening of Friday, March 9, 1984, nine-year-old Chris Laverack was dropped off at the home of his older half-sister Kim Hines to spend the weekend. He arrived at about 6:50pm, just in time to see his favorite television show "The Fall Guy". About an hour later, Kim went her job as a barmaid at a local pub, leaving Chris and her own fifteen-month-old son Martin in the care of her husband Steve. Later that night, with Martin in bed and Chris still happily watching TV, Steve decided to go out the The Crown pub (where his wife worked). This was the last time Chris would be seen alive.

At approximately 9:15pm, a neighbor (whom Chris always called "Auntie Marge") looked out her window and saw an unfamiliar car with its headlights on in front of the Hines' home. She also heard a man's voice saying "Steve, I want to talk to you. Steve, let me in." coming from outside their front door. She put her ear to the dividing wall between the two houses and heard the front door opening, followed by silence. A few minutes later, the car could be heard pulling away. Steve returned home about an hour later. His son was crying, the television set had been ripped out, and Chris was nowhere to be found. Police were notified and search of the area was initiated and continued well in the next morning. Two days later on Sunday, March 11, a man walking his dog ten miles away near Beverley Beck found a suspicious looking carpet bag floating in the water. It contained the body of Chris Laverack; he died from head trauma believed to have been inflicted the night he vanished.


 * Suspects: None at time of broadcast
 * Extra Notes: This case aired on August 16, 1984, the show's third episode. The show referred to this case as "Carpet Bag Murder" on the reconstruction's on-screen title card.
 * Results: Solved. Chris' uncle, a pedophile named Melvyn Read who died in prison in 2008, was posthumously proven to be the killer in 2012 via DNA testing.
 * Links: The Guardian, August 1, 2012

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