Donal MacIntyre Unsolved: The Murder of Claudia Elizabeth Lawrence
Donal revisits so called 'cold cases' which never have been closed and have never had successful convictions. This episode looks at the disappearance and murder of 35-year-old British chef Claudia Elizabeth Lawrence.
Lawrence was last seen near her home in Heworth, York, on the afternoon of 18 March 2009, as she returned from her work as a chef at the University of York's Goodricke College at the Roger Kirk Centre. That evening she spoke to her parents by telephone, making plans with her mother to spend Mother's Day together. Lawrence later sent a text message to a friend and has not been heard from since. The last text message from her was sent at 8:23 p.m.,[5] and her last received message, from a bar worker in Cyprus, was at 9:12 p.m.Lawrence's passport and bank cards were left at her home when she went missing.
Six weeks after Lawrence went missing, the investigation into her disappearance was reclassified from a missing person's case to a suspected murder enquiry, although NYP have acknowledged they have no evidence that Lawrence is dead.
