When a missing-person case dominates the news, the most visible figures are often the relatives and neighbours walking the fields, handing out leaflets or facing the cameras. Public sympathy naturally attaches to those who appear to help, and two assumptions tend to follow: that someone who joins a search must be innocent, and that a murderer who knowingly searches for their own victim must be mentally disordered. Both assumptions are usually stated without evidence. Yet a documented history of cases — from David Venables, who spent four hours searching for his wife Brenda in 1982 after concealing her body, to Mark Bridger, who briefly joined a group looking for April Jones shortly before his arrest — suggests the reality is more complicated. Why do some killers participate in the very searches designed to find what they have hidden?

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