Doesnt a coroners inquest require a body tho
@Vixey?
A declaration of pesumed death doesnt..
Its all so open ended .. with no one getting any relevant details to important questions and thats the problem in keeping this case open.
If the family thought she was alive then surely they knew something about what happened around/after the disappearance that led them to believe that.
I know if the policeman who was heading the investigation came to me and said we believe your daughter is dead and then go on national tv an say they are treating the case as murder, I would have thrown every question in the book at him and want to know every detail of such a declaration.
Joan and Peter did not appear to have had a united front on some aspects of this case but on the subject of her still being alive they did.
So whatever police told them at the time in my opinion wasnt enough to convince them she was dead.
IMO
Dyor