When pregnant Debbie Griggs disappeared from her home in Deal in May 1999, suspicion soon fell on her husband, Andrew Griggs. But it took more than 20 years for him to be convicted of her murder. On the 25th anniversary of her disappearance, reporter Rhys Griffiths speaks to detectives who helped to bring her killer to justice and solve the mystery of the fate of her remains… It was October 5, 2022, and DCI Neil Kimber was looking on as the careful, methodical excavation of the garden of a family home in Dorset began to reveal the answer to a question which had remained unanswered for more tha…
