UK UK - Carole Packman, 40, murdered by husband, body missing, Bournemouth, 1985 *Guilty* *paroled 2023*

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A murderer who has never revealed where he hid his wife’s body has been freed from jail. It is understood Russell Causley left HMP Bristol yesterday morning, where he had been transferred after previously being held at HMP Lewes in East Sussex.

He was handed a life sentence for killing Carole Packman, who disappeared in 1985, a year after he moved his lover into the family home in Bournemouth. He made UK legal history last year when he became the first prisoner to face a public parole hearing.

Causley was released in 2020 after serving more than 23 years behind bars for the murder but was sent back to jail the following year when he breached his licence conditions. The Parole Board ruled last month that he was suitable to be released from prison again.
 
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The husband faked his death and Carole's body was never found. How can it be proven that he did not also help her fake her own death?
 
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They let him out, oh how disappointing. A sleuther here, sorry I don't recall who, suggested in another topic that in 'no body cases' that the convicted individuals should not be let out until they lead LE to the remains.
 

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