Colette Aram left her home in Normanton Lane, Keyworth, shortly after 8:00p.m. on 30October1983 to walk the to her boyfriend's house. She was usually collected by her boyfriend, but his car was off the road. She was last seen at about 8:10p.m. turning into Nicker Hill where she stopped to talk to a group of friends, and witnesses reported hearing a woman screaming followed by a car driving off at speed shortly afterwards. The alarm was raised when she did not arrive at her boyfriend's house, and after a series of frantic phone calls, police were called at 10:30p.m. to help family and friends search for Aram. At 9:00a.m. the following morning her naked body was found dumped in a field about a mile and a half from where she had been abducted. She had been raped and strangled.
