kirby noden disappeared around the middle of january last year.the middle ofjanuary last year. by may, her relatives were getting concerned. there were also receiving peculiar m essa 9 es there were also receiving peculiar messages from dean lowe, talking about dealing with disposing of a body. some of the details, i can't give you at this time of the evening. the prosecution's case was that he had beat her to death with a rock from the beach and a poll, had lived with the body in the flat for seven days and then disposed of it in bins and flushed some parts down the toilet. the jury obviously agreed with that assessment of the case and they found him guilty in the court this afternoon. a really grisly and distressing case. how difficult was the police investigation into this crime? difficult was the police investigation into this crime7m was particularly difficult for officers because there was no body. they have to do what they called a proof of life, or in this case a proof of life, or in this case a proof of life, or in this case a proof of de