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Top detective in Fred and Rose West murder probe says 'pretty' missing girl haunted him
Fred West investigation has told how missing teenager Mary Bastholm haunted their work from the beginning.Former DSI John Bennett, of Gloucestershire police, was the man given the daunting task of piecing together Fred and Rose West’s decades of evil as the bodies began to pile up at 25 Cromwell Street in 1994, Mirror reports.But in his 2005 memoir on the dreadful case, the now-retired detective revealed Mary was in their thoughts from the moment Fred first appeared in court as he had covered her disappearance as a junior cop decades earlier.Mary, 15, vanished on January 6, 1968, while waiting for a bus in Gloucester and no trace of her was ever found.This week detectives have been digging up a cafe she used to work at in hope of finding