The Case of The Jigsaw Killer | He Scattered His Best Friend's Body Parts Across the UK

body parts have been discovered across hartfordshire the most likely explanation for what's happened is this is a sadistic ritual killing a murderer is playing games with the police no one had come across this before is it the same victim was this a serial killer there was so many unknowns in this I certainly was losing sleep over it this offender is very forensically aware they know how to hide evidence there's always going be a [ __ ] in their armor and it's down to us as the professionals to find it the forensic scientists will have to go to unprecedented lengths if they're to catch the killer at the crime scene [Music] police have received a 999 call about a suspicious package discarded in a field I was the on call detective Sergeant for the harer murder team I think I was eating my dinner at home and got the call that they uh they found what they believed to be uh a severed left leg in a very rural location completely the opposite side of the county from where I was living at the time a local farmer has discovered a small hold do on the edge of his field inside a human leg wrapped in blue polythene and sealed with duct tape it was routine read to be called out to suspicious deaths and bodies body parts um certainly not that was the first time for me detective Sergeant Ian siger races across the county to CID cotd is a lovely lovely Village is Middle England as I would call it really nice rural location so quite a concern for the residents of cotrin Ian and his team cordon off the Country Lane and the vicinity around the discovered body part finding an item like this in a lby the csis would have to cast really wide and recover any recent and non-recent evidence from that layby because we don't know initially how long that item's been there for there might be discarded items that might have fingerprints on or DNA on wrappers or drink cartons or cigarette ends initially once we found the left leg we were of the opinion that probably within that locality we'll start to find other body pieces but of course we didn't everything that we Harvest from that initial crime scene is bagged and tagged and then it goes back to our incident room everything went into storage to such times as we could decide what would be our most fruitful exhibit to send off or if it's DNA fingerprinting chemical work always going to be crucial for us was the wrapping that that leg was in and of course the hold all that the whole thing was in to identify who the limb belongs to DNA samples are taken and run through the National Database whilst the packaging is forensically examined at the lab finding a body part wrapped in plastic with tape around it immediately gives me forensic opportunities it gives me the opportunities of maybe finding DNA on the tape or fingerprints on the end of the tape and also fingerprints on the plastic the initial examination of the rubble sack and tape provide the police with no clues had no fentic evidence on them there were no fingerprints there was no DNA which then makes our job very difficult this offender is very forensically aware they know how to hide evidence and trying to disguise who they might be [Music] all of the routine inquiries that we carried out in cwood really came to no avail no one had seen a car parked in the layby at the material time nobody seen anybody dumping anything in the side of the field so we were none the wiser really when it came to cot the results are in from the DNA samples taken from the limb discovered in the hold door unfortunately came back as no Trace so the body part remains unidentified it was quite disheartening really because we knew that if we identified who our victim was then naturally the offenders would would would follow very soon thereafter the pathologist did however make an observation about the efficiency of the amputation whoever carried out this dismemberment had done so in a very very professional way we were hypothesizing what was this a medical amputation experts tell us that the dismemberment itself was very skilled clinical and professional and that indicates that there may have been some prior experience or practice in dismembering bodies it requires Great anatomical knowledge to cut at precise cutting points so that may be part of the medical profession it could be working in a butches 7 Days Later another gruesome Discovery the second C came in again on a Sunday a couple found a forearm uh just at the side of the road in wheat Hamstead when the call came in I was sure that would be obviously linked to our leg the leg was found in cottered whereas we're now finding a forearm in wheat Hampsted which is the other side of the county both scenes are cotd and wheat Hampton were very similar in being very rural and not overlooked by by by by any Residential Properties so this was the second deposition site so it's approximately here that the left forearm was discovered by the couple out walking on that Sunday morning literally just laying at the side of the road just off the grass Verge so we believe it probably just been launched maybe just out the car window you would identify it it's definitely a male it's quite a hairy arm very professionally severed at the hands and cut off the elbow it was all very cleanly done as if someone had done this before how long had it been here had it actually been deposited before the left leg a week before we we weren't to know at this early stage in the inquiry all we knew it was definitely a white male but that was it so male and ethnicity nothing else so now we've got two crime scenes two potential dump sites of body parts I would as a crimey manager try to look to link the two SE together are the same tie trap marks at the two crime scenes we would do this by photographing them and then also if they were good enough we would take a plaster cast of the tie TR marks it's important to keep all options open at a crime scene like this and although tire track marks aren't the best bit of forensic evidence we don't know if they're going to be relevant or not so it's really important to recover as much evidence from the crime scene as possible we're able to measure the distance between the two tracks to to work out the potential size and the type of vehicle potentially and depending on how warn they are depends if they've got unique damage in them or not and whether that unique damage has been replicated in the actual tire tread we know we're not going to have any eyewitnesses to the deposition we've got no CCTV house to- housee inquiries are going to give us virtually very little we knew we'd probably find a link eventually but what was it somebody deliberately trying to be sporadic in their deposition sites just to throw us off the scent it possible that the offender didn't have great concern for being detected by the police because we can see that the body parts weren't necessarily hidden so we're looking at somebody who is likely to have been looking to exert some control to achieve some sense of power and recognition and reward send the authorities in different directions was this a serial killer was it organized crime was someone playing games with the police we just didn't know and not knowing is a concerning thing 48 hours later and 100 Mil North leerer police have discovered a skull that's been stripped of all its flesh of course we believed it was going to be linked we dispatched a team up to Lester Shear till almost immediately ailla is on the loose members of the public have discovered a dismembered leg and a forearm dumped in hartfordshire and detective Sergeant Ian Sig and his team have now been called 100 Mil North to leire where a skull has been found the skull was found in a farmer's field completely void of any skin of any flesh unlike all the other body parts so we believe that the offenders had carried out the removal of all the Flesh and the skin to that skull a sort of Midsummer murder type scenario with a leafy Village in the suburbs of hartfordshire and they find a leg and then we find a forearm and then a Skully Nester here so it really had gried the nation a killer who appears to have almost taunted the police and CED publicity by scattering body parts far and wide there had been huge media coverage nationally with these body parts turning up was on all the news bulletins the most likely explanation for what's happened is this is a sadistic ritual killing followed by an attempt to generate publicity it was so high profile that everyone was alert to the fact that they're walking their dog and they came across something they they would have seen it in the news that week detectives are appealing for Witnesses for anyone who saw anything suspicious in these areas where the body parts have been left since the 20th of March the world was looking at us uh sleep sleepy Heartford sh once again the forensic sees hundreds of exhibits but there are still no fresh leads the police are hoping the skull and dental analysis will provide a much needed breakthrough I think leaving the teeth was a real school boy era because it really was our best method now of identifying our victim but of course we need to narrow it down we just can send these Dental Impressions out to all of the dentists in the UK that's just not a feasible line of inquiry but we knew that once we had a few more clues then those teeth would really give us the identity of our victim several of our detectives just focus purely on missing persons we're looking at International missing persons as well was this someone foreign to our lands that had come across we went through hundreds of missing persons throughout the UK and it was a big piece of to work for the inquiry team and if they did fall within our criteria then we were going out visiting family and relatives every missing person inquiry that we that we looked into just drew a complete blank when it came to it didn't hit the complete criteria that we were looking at it was quite disheartening at times because you often say you make your own luck in police investigations but everywhere we went we just came to a dead end we' failed on the DNA database we hadn't recovered any hands so we had no fingerprints to go on we were getting no luck at all we were getting no leads to who our victim was who were these offenders were we couldn't make head nor tail of it really to be quite honest really didn't have a clue you begin to doubt your own investigative ability and the pressure was certainly there and I I certainly felt the pressure and of course every day that tick by those offenders were still out there as the pressure from the public and media is mounting detectives turn to Professor Caroline Wilkinson a specialist in cranial facial recognition when the police can't identify bodies by the usual channels then they'll often ask for a depiction to be produced and then that's put out to the public in the hope that someone will recognize them and then that will help the police to identify them the police delivered to us the computer tomography scans of the skull we were from photographs of the original remains and the CTE data we worked on predicting facial features from skeletal analysis and from that we look at the orbits and details of the orbits to tell us about how the eyes sit and where the corners of the eye are and how much it protrudes for the nose we look at the bones of the nasal aperture and one of the unusual things with him is that the What's called the nasal spine which is a little pointed bit of burone at the base of the hole of the nose is split into two points rather than one and that suggests what's called a biffed nose so that you can feel but mostly see a Groove up the center of of the nostril and that's a inherited feature the process we use is anatomical so we build the muscles of the face directly onto the skull the shape of and size of those and attachments and Origins will be determined by the shape and proportions of the skull you can see where there are strong muscle attachments because they leave marks on the bone so that helps us with some of the big muscles of the head to see the overall shape of the face once you build the muscles of the face onto the skull you get automatically get different proportions and different face shapes so it's a gradual buildup of muscles then individual features and then we use tissue depth averages to tell us about the overall soft tissue above the muscle structure to give you the the skin layer and then that gives you the finished face as Caroline Works around the clock to create a depiction of the victim another body part is found in hartfordshire the fourth gruesome Discovery in just 3 weeks police have actually blocked off the A10 heading Northbound this gruesome Discovery was made in a layby by a motorist who stopped at lunchtime and found something in the woods the police not actually revealing what they have found there beyond the fact that it is a body part next call came in was the discovery of the leg in the labor on the A10 Main Road the A10 in and out of London quite a large Lai just bordered with farmlands a big search area for us and an awful lot of litter cigarette butts Cris packets sweet wrappers absolutely anything that was alien to that rural location was seized by friends Specialists the amount of exhibits we had after that fourth scene was was absolutely enormous police have now harvested thousands of exhibits but have nothing that identifies a suspect or links the four crime scenes together sometimes you will have csis that will work for 10 12 hours at a crime scene for 3 or 4 days and none of their evidence actually comes to fruition which can be quite Soul destroying sometimes it's at this stage that we would then think even more outside the box and we would consider more unique forensic techniques we will consult with different forensic scientists for suggestions about what their evidence we might have recovered from the crime scenes is there any other evidence that we could potentially look for outside the normal DNA and fingerprints so we would consider fibers the investigative team came to the laboratory for a case conference to to ask for assistance and seeing what kind of ways we could help them in terms of um any scientific evidence that might help the investigation proceed forward to that point in time as they had absolutely no clue or information regarding who may be responsible for this particular crime or clue as to where this individual had been killed or dismembered during the meeting we were showing photographs of the body parts in the original packaging as they were found and what became clear at that time was whilst the body parts being placed in these Rubble sacks they'd use gaffer tape or duct tape to actually seal and secure the the packaging in place looking at that seemed to me at the time potential line of inquiry would be to actually carefully remove the tapes that that used to secure the packaging and see if there was any material such as fibers or indeed any other kind of Chase evidence it was present on the adhesive side of the tap lift that had actually been secured or preserved at the time of the dismemberment and packaging the act of actually pulling the the tape can create a static charge which attract any fibers near to it to be drawn to the adhes the tape was carefully removed from packages put the adhesive side down onto a clear acetate sheet it meant we could actually turn the thing over and examine it microscopically to see if there's any material there what we we're looking for was what we call fiber collectives groups of fibers that appear to have originated from the same Source entities that are probably somewhere between a tenth and and a quarter the width of a a human hair and less than a millimeter in length the collectives that we discovered on these sections of tape turned out to be what we call flock fibers A Flock is what's called a non-moving textile it's formed by chopping sections of yarn up into very very short fragments and then electrically charging them so that they stand upright they have a very distinctive texture to them they actually when you when you touch them they actually feel like a peach skin and because it's just stuck down it's not woven is it sheds incredibly well so the information we gave to the investigative team at that time was if you find a place of interest look for something that's blue in color and has this particular particular Peach skin texture to it bring it to the lab if you find such an item and then we'll perform a comparison using different analytical techniques as well as microscopy as the detectives exhaust all the forensic angles the killer they hunting provides them a new lead this is the fifth gruesome Discovery in just 3 weeks a local farmer alerted police to what's believed to be part of a male torso here at Gore Lane in standon in East hartfordshire [Music] the call came in for the discovery of the Torso over the Easter weekends torso have been found in a suitcase PES Farm not far from the A10 it's likely to be from the same man whose legs arms and severed head were found at locations around hartfordshire and leers in the past 3 weeks the Torso went to uh a local hospital we had a home office pathologist come out to conduct a postmortem that really did give us some momentum on the investigation because at the first time we discovered a cause of death which was crucial for us we established that there were two stab wounds uh through the back one of which had gone straight through uh the lump the discovery of the Torso gave us a few more lines of inquiry in respect to it reduced the age for us so we were able to to be more specific on our search for missing persons and our media repal what police know so far is that he was white or Asian in his mid 40s to early 60s 5' 6 to 510 and large 16 or 17 Stone the detectives revisit the missing person's National Database and whilst Caroline is completing her depiction of the victim police are alerted to the recent disapperance a 49-year-old Londoner Jeffrey how it was Jeffrey how's brother who reported him as missing initially to Metropolitan Police Service but then again to TS Valley police and as soon as we looked at Jeffrey H's details his age group and his weight we just knew that this this could be it this this this could be our victim Jeffrey how was adopted so they weren't able to obtain familiar DNA profile from his brother so the police have to look at other ways to confirm that the decease was actually Jeffrey H the police came to us with an image of Jeffrey for what's called a crania facial superimposition to be produced where we superimpose the skull with the photograph of to see how well the proportions and shapes match up we position that based on where the orbits match the eyes where the nasal aperture matches the nose and look at how the jawline fits within his jawline in the photograph in this case everything matched up enough that was consistent we could say yes go ahead and try and do an identification we had two of our detectives taking the dental Impressions off to an expert who obtains jeffy's Dental Impressions from his dentist I think it was about 4 or 5:00 the following afternoon before we actually officially identified Jeffrey as our victim when Jeffrey's brother reported him as missing he said that two people were living inside uh Jeffrey's flat one by the name of Sarah Bush and the other one by the name of Steven Marshall and ass soon as I heard the name Steven Marshall I was thinking well he can't be one of the [Music] same police have confirmed that the dismembered body parts they discovered scattered across two counties belonged to 49-year-old Jeffrey how who' been reported missing by his adopted [Music] brother we carried out some very fast time research on Jeffrey how on his address on his background and we actually identified a couple of people that have worked with him what we can say about Jeffrey he was a really lovely genuine man hardworking well thought of by his work colleagues and family worked all his life and kitchen Sals Ena was good at engaging with people was friendly portrayed exactly what it was a nice nice man Jeffrey was described as being very kind caring open generous sociable he was described as having a heart of gold when jeffy's brother reported him as missing he said that two people were living inside uh jeffy's flat Jeffrey took them both in because they had nowhere to live they were on hard times one by the name of Sarah Bush and they have one by the name of Steven Marshall I'd known Steven Marshall from very early in my policing career he and I had sort of grown up together me as a young police officer and him learning his trade as as a criminal really and our paths had crossed several times an actual fact I'd arrested him one morning with a prostitute for taking drugs probably 6 half 6 on a Saturday morning outside a nightclub in HL Hempstead and I become really really excited because I just knew what Steven Marshall was um and I knew what he was capable of we decided that we would go down to jeffy's home address on the pretense for a basic sort of generic routine missing person inquiry as soon as that door was opened and as soon as I shook hands with Steven Marshall I just knew certainly at that point Steven didn't recognize me as that young PC from HL Hempstead all those years back but I certainly recognized him CU he was quite possibly Unforgettable really he was a quite an imposing character he was good 6'2 tall wellb built he was well into his Fitness several years previously in actual fact he a failed business as a as a gym owner I was nervous but I could see that Steven Marshall was more nervous than I was we sat down in the kitchen and I could see he leg just shaking underneath the table and I just knew I needed to not raise any of his suspicions really had quite a polite conversation just chatting about himself and his girlfriend Sarah Bush and then obviously on to Jeffrey and where was Jeffrey both Sarah and Steven had said that they had last seen him in in February time Jeffrey had financial troubles didn't know where he gone he just stepped and left and he couldn't really give any more detail about that which straight away was was ringing alarm bells for me because he portrayed Jeffrey to be one of his best mates Jeffrey had allowed him to stay in his flat so surely he must have known where he was who he was with where it gone I recorded everything contemporaneously in a book quite deliberately because I knew that's probably going to prove quite crucial in our investigation and later on at court I could see through him that he was lying wasn't making an awful lot of sense had a look around the flat and there was no bed uh which was unusual there was just a blow up inflatable on the floor which we really couldn't figure out why that was uh so it just wasn't right and I just knew that I needed to leave the flat just to give us a little bit of time to decide exactly what we were going to do we had a brief discussion and I just said look it's Steven and Sarah I know it's them get them in we had a number of different officers outside called them all in and I just walked in and said Steven Marshall I'm arresting you on suspicion of the murder of Jeffrey Hal he recognized me at that point as being from Hartford share um and said I remember you now Steven Marshall was under arrest Sarah Bush was under arrest and then we took them back to Harford chair are you surprised to learn that Jeffrey how's been murdered no how did you feel when you found that he'd been murdered no com Steven Marshall refused to answer any of our questions just made no comment to everything he was asked you surprised that he's been murdered no comment what can you tell me in relation to his murder no comment do you feel upset by his death no com if he was an innocent man why wasn't he helping us with our inquiries why wasn't he talk why wasn't he engaging with us do you feel upset by the fact that not only has you been murdered but someone's chosen to dismember him and place parts of his body around the countryside no telling how does that make you feel no telling I think Sarah Bush was less comfortable with the cellblock environment less comfortable in telling the lies that Steven Marshall was he just knew he had to keep quiet say nothing and make the police prove it are you responsible for the killing and the dismembering of your friend Jeffrey H if so why did you kill and dismember Jeffrey H no comment it really was all the circumstantial evidence at that time but we need hard and fast evidence we need forensic evidence to say that was the scene this is the room that took place in and this is how it took place the flat was deemed our crime scene we couldn't really see too much signs of it being our the scene of the murder if someone's been murdered as brutally and as horrifically as Jeffrey how's and then cut up into several different body parts even if you've cleaned up as well as you can it's highly likely that we will find a lot of blood at the scene a lot of blood pattern distribution we would lift the carpets up would look in the floor boards to see if there's any traces of blood forensic scientists use ultraviolet technology to investigate the bedroom where the airbeds were once you started taking up carpets into the underlay it just looked like brown staining forensic team utilized ultraviolet lighting that showed up just an excessive amount of [Music] blood we took off skirting boards in the grout in between the tiles there was an excessive amount of Jeff's blood they had done a really good cleanup operation inside the flat but not good enough to stump the forensic team it was identified that the murder had taken place we believe inside the master bedroom dismemberment had taken place between the bedroom and the on Suite shower room maybe Jeffrey had fallen onto the bed the mattress and the bed were just covered very heavily soiled in jeffy's blood so they had to get rid of those as a result of our house-to-house inquiries we identified a local resident that had seen a male a couple of weeks previously carrying a m from Jeffrey House's block of flats to a local bin store it was fortuitous that on the day of the arrest that Resident was at home and saw R walking Steven Marshall out from the flat and she identified in a witness testimony that the bloke that she had seen carrying the mattress those weeks previously out to the local bin store was the same person that we'd [Music] arrested they had to blow up beds replace of the heavily soiled mattress we now needed to link the missing beds the blowup beds to the death and to the dismemberment and that was where the fiber work came in unbeknown to us at that time the material on the blowup blads was going to prove absolutely enormous to the [Music] investigation Doctor Ray Palmer identified various fibers in the duct tape used to wrap the first limb that was disc discovered in the blue Rubble Sac if it can link the body parts to Steven Marshall and Sarah Bush it will be a massive win for the investigation the phone rang from one of the investigative team to say that they found a potential Source uh for these flop fibers we immediately asked the investigative team to bring us these items so that we could hit samples from it and compare it to the collective of fibers that we found on the tapes this Source turned out to be an inflatable mattress which had a plastic substrate which obviously inflated but on top of that there was a layer of dark blue flock being on a clear acetate sheet it meant we could examine it microscopically we take representative samples from the the areas of flop that were on these items these are then placed on a comparison microscope which allows you to look at the reference sample from the mattresses against the fibers from the tapes that that used to secure the packaging in the event that the comparison microscopy shows no differences then we move on to the next uh analytical stage which involves the use of a instrument called a microspectra photometer that compares the color between the question sample and the control sample again any differences you would exclude it in the event that you cannot exclude these samples I this form of comparison then we will move on to another technique called Fury transform infrared spectroscopy which compares the chemical structure of the fibers down to the molecular level throughout this process we've used this whole battery of comparative test and in each test that we performed there were no differences between the samples consequently we were very confident that these inflatable mattresses were the source of the collective fibers that we found on the tapes those blowup beds must have been in that room at the time that Steven Marshall dismembered Jeffrey Hal up those body parts prior to discarding them what they were actually doing was sealing in evidence relating to that particular environment they would have been unaware of that once we'd identified and compared the flock collectives from the tapes we went back to the tapes to see if there was anything else present and we found a number of green polyester as well as my own polyester collectives Steven Marshall have been known to wear some green polo shirts that had embossed with his old gymnasium that he once owned the thorough search of the flat leads police to the laundry basket where they seize Marshall's clothing polyester fibers had quite distinctive feature and it's what they call flamed ends it's essentially when the Fabric's made it's passed under a heated surface and it melts the top later polyester fibers to give it almost like a stay press kind of appearance under the microscope the fibers from the tapings from the body parts exhibited the same features all the analytical and test they were indistinguishable it was those two items actually that proved really really um just brilliant on the on the forensic evidence it's a bit like the numbers in the lottery the more numbers you have the less likely it is it's going to be a chance event given the amount of fiber evidence that was found on the adhesive tapes demonstrates very little knowledge about fiber transfers or about and indeed fiber evidence and how useful it can be I believe he was a friend or an associate of yours no comment and my understanding is he's been quite kind to you in the past by land to stay at his home address no me you would expect anybody that have been accused of murder to to shout from the rooftops I'm an innocent man that I didn't do this and especially as the fact that Jeffrey Hal was supposedly one of his best mates just weeks before his death Jeffrey had told friends that he felt he was being used by Marshall and Bush it's reported that Jeffrey became more and more impatient as time went on and it got to a point where Jeffrey asked them to pay some rent and they refused you've called him he not rur in your calls you do see him on the 6th how did he appear on that day he seemed really lost in what respect just didn't know what to do with himself just said if you got that money for the rent okay you think it appeared different to normal then yeah at the point at which the relationship between Steven and Jeffrey sard it's possible that Steven decided that he wanted to almost eliminate Jeffrey so that he would still have access to the housing and the money and the food um continually in the future the physical forensic evidence is painting the picture of what happened to Jeffrey meanwhile the digital forensic team makes discoveries which suggest the reason he was murdered well our motive was to plunder Jeffrey H's assets Steven Marshall and Sarah Bush have been charged with the murder and dismemberment of kitchen salesman Jeffrey how police must now analyze the digital forensics to prove the motive behind the murder post charge once Sarah Bush and Steven Marshall were locked up on remand in prison the investigation just picks up pace really the telephone work takes time we need to get that lawfully from all the service providers we got all the data back from jeffy's phone to prove that that had stopped working on the Sunday which was the day probably the day of his murder the handset was then sold by Steven Marshall the following day on the Monday they had sold Jeffrey Hal's car on eBay uh several days after his murder and we' identified where that car was we' uh obtained witness testimony uh from the person that purchased the car there was a handwritten receipt for the sale of a vehicle and you can get really good fingerprints from paper if the fingerprints are really fresh you might be able to use certain magnetic powder on the paper which will also develop any fresh fingerprints so finding fingerprints on paper again would then potentially tie an offender to a transaction you might also be able to use treatment called n hydrin which is a chemical which turns fingerprints on paper into purple color scientists apply an in hydron to the receipt which reacts with the amino acid of the fingerprints which subsequently turn purple several of the fingerprints revealed were a positive match to Steven Marshall detectives investigate Jeffrey how's Bank activity which further supports the motive behind his murder Sarah Bush had paid off a a sin World account she had opened up a little woods catalog account made different purchases tried to sell Jeffrey how's dining room table is worth about £45,000 they had completely plundered his bank account Steven Marshall had written out about eight checks some to himself some to Sarah Bush and six or seven checks to a friend of his that he owed £800 to in terms of taking petrol without paying for petrol selling jeffy's car ordering regular takeaways cashing checks in view of CCTV and so on there's a just position with the very organized planned meticulous element with the killing dismembering and distributing of body parts versus the frenzied uh spending spree that ensued and perhaps that was an element of not being able to defer that gratification so having sudden access to these resources namely money and wanting to go out and use them they in some ways stopped thinking things through so fully and comprehensively and were almost distracted by the easy access to money at that time we knew that Steven Marshall was the owner of a SE Toledo and that was forensically recovered back to one of our Labs painstakingly gone through both for fiber work fingerprints DNA and to harvest all of the exhibits out of that car forensic officers compare the tire track casts taken at the deposition sites to the tire tread of Marshall SE at Toledo the but there is no match however what they discover in the boot of the car will be crucial to the investigation we were just blessed to eventually find some blood I think it's a worktop sample that Steven has carried around in the boot of the car and they found some staining on that and sent it off for DNA analysis we were able to link Jeffrey Hal's blood to the boot of Steven Marshall's car that vehicle must have been used to transport the body part across hartfordshire up into leerer for the deposition we were able to do cell site analysis to track both Sarah Bush and Steven Marshall up the M1 Motorway up towards lerare and back again on the particular day that we say they deposited the skull the trial was held at St orin's Crown Court and I've got to say that when I saw saw him in the dock he seemed to be a bit of a shadow of his former self really cuz I always saw him as a very imposing man he appeared to me to be a Broken Man when he was sat in the dock Steven Marshall said nothing to do with me it's all Sarah Bush but the telephony worker told us that Sarah Bush probably wasn't at the flat at the time of the murder the time of the murder we believe that she was a away visiting her friends the compelling evidence against Marshall finally brought on a conf confession the evidence was so overwhelming that partway through the trial Steven Marshall just threw in the tail gave up and realized that that he was going to be convicted uh and he plead a guilty partway through the trial it was so rewarding to hear that Steven Marshall had actually said yes I did murder Jeffrey hell that was great for Jeffrey's family it was great for the public uh but it was good for the team to know that you know we were right all along the murder charge against Bush was withdrawn she was sentenced to 3 years and 9 months for perverting the course of Justice having confessed to the murder and dismemberment of Jeffrey how Marshall told the court he had also dismembered other bodies what we had evidenced was there was a a a firm link between Steven Marshall and a well-known North London crime family and other witness testimony was obtained whereby Steven had told people that in actual fact he had carried out other dismemberments on behalf of this North London crime family and this wasn't his first time and this is why he'd become so proficient at dismemberment Steven Marshall was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 36 years certainly one of the most high-profile investigations I'd ever been proud to be part of it was a real team effort we were blessed to have a real quality bunch of detectives on that case it's never about one detective it's all about the whole team around it was really rewarding for the team all the hard work that everyone had put into that case uh came to flourish Steven Marshall was a dangerous individual I learned Lots from that investigation and above all probably learn always to to go in my gut feeling one thing that came out of the investigation and speaking to lots of family and friends of Jeffrey Hal was how Steven Marshall and Sarah Bush took advantage of Jeffrey how's good character all Jeffrey tried to do was to help them and be friendly towards them just so sad that his life was taken away so early [Music] [Music]

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Length: 44min 51sec (2691 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 22 2024