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Music November 1995 1995, 1995, Surrey United Kingdom.

16-year-old Ruth Wilson left home as usual on a miserable winter morning.

But instead of going to school with her sister, she took a taxi

in the pouring rain to the top of bleak but beautiful box hill, where she vanished off the face of

the earth. Ruth was popular and smart from a good family. Bad things didn't happen to families like this.

But did a dark secret hidden from her drive Ruth to run away?

Did the truth become too much for the sensitive and sad teen?

Or did she cross past with the wrong person?

All we know is that Ruth has never been heard from since and nobody has ever been found.

Making the disappearance of Ruth Wilson, Surrey's oldest outstanding missing person's case.

This is Ruth's story.

Every now and again there's a story that just niggles away.

You can't quite forget.

The disappearance of Ruth Wilson is one of those stories.

In 2002, I wrote an article about missing people.

The case of Ruth Wilson really affected me.

It was so unusual, such a peculiar and mysterious case of a 16-year-old

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