Twenty-four-year-old Darren Carley lived in the West Midlands, England. Though he had held several jobs in the past, he was unemployed at this stage and had just broken up with his live-in girlfriend, with whom he had shared a flat in Birmingham.
Not long after midnight on January 25th, 2002, Darren was seen in Swindon, wearing a burnt orange fleece jacket, white tracksuit pants with a black stripe, and white tennis shoes. Shortly after this sighting, he completely vanished. His family in Wiltshire reported him missing only days later.
On July 26th of the same year, six months after Darren’s disappearance, a set of skeletal remains was discovered on a piece of farmland near Chorley, Lancashire. The victim had been murdered by blunt force trauma to the head.
For years, the identity of the body was unknown, but finally, in 2018, the bones were definitively found to belong to Darren Carley. The site where the remains were uncovered lay almost two hundred miles away from where Darren lived.
Once the identification was made, the body was exhumed from its grave in Chorley Cemetery and sent back to Wiltshire for burial by the Carley family.
Lancashire Police announced in 2018 that a fifty-year-old man from Gloucester and a thirty-six-year-old woman from Worcester had been arrested in connection with the homicide, but no charges were laid at that time. In 2019, authorities stated that the suspects were still under investigation and that a property in Cinderford had been searched for evidence. There have been no updates in the case since then.
Detectives are urging anyone with pertinent information in the case to come forward and help them solve the mysterious crime.
Crime Immemorial 