By David Lohr
November 19, 2007
LONDON (Crime Library) — Just how many skeletons still lie in wait in Peter Tobin's house of horrors? That is the question Essex Police are trying to answer this week as they continue to search the property once occupied by the 61-year-old convicted sex offender and killer.
Last Monday, forensic teams using Geophysics equipment to identify areas where the ground had been disturbed discovered human skeletal remains, after an exhaustive 12-hour search of the backyard of Tobin's former residence, where he lived from March to December 1991. By midweek, forensics experts had identified the remains as those of a teenager from Tillingham in Essex, who disappeared nearly 17 years ago.
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The discovery fueled speculation that Tobin had used the property to dispose of other human remains, prompting investigators to conduct what they have described as a "deep search" of the property.
"We had reasons to come here. Those reasons still exist," Detective Superintendent Tim Wills said during a press conference late last week. "... I do not intend to leave the house until I'm fully satisfied that there is not any other human remains at that site."
Unfortunately, Wills' intuition was correct. On Friday, the search led to the discovery of a second set of human skeletal remains in the back garden near a patio. According to police the clothes and height of the victim are a match for a teenage girl who disappeared in 1991.
Following Friday's discovery, Wills' again spoke with the media, describing the search as a "slow and painstaking process." He added, "There is no further update at this stage. The post-mortem examination is complete, but there is nothing further I can say."
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