Circumstantial cases often rely on the totality of evidence - how each piece fits together to create a bigger picture, almost like putting a puzzle together. Sometimes, the puzzle is left with some empty spots. Sometimes, the puzzle comes together completely. But it’s always reliant on how each individual piece fits in with the whole, rather than relying on one ‘smoking gun’. In the case of the disappearance of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope, the puzzle was forced to form a picture that doesn’t seem to match the pieces given.
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The Crewe Murders
In 1970, David and Jeanette Crewe disappeared, leaving their 18-month-old daughter, Rochelle, behind in her cot at the family farmhouse in Pukekawa, Lower Waikato, New Zealand. Nearly 51 years later, there are still few answers as to what happened to the Crewe family the night of June 17th, 1970.