Despite all these efforts by June she had still not been found and that month police told her parents that their daughter was probably dead. Three months later, on September 18, , remains were discovered in Yateley Heath Woods in Hampshire, that were eventually identified by dental records as Milly's.
They were so decomposed that a cause of death could not be determined and the case then officially switched from a missing person's case to a murder inquiry, codenamed Operation Ruby. Levi Bellfield is a multiple murderer who killed at least three young women and girls. Bellfield was named as the prime suspect in Surrey Police's investigation into Milly's murder in and was eventually charged with the crime on March 30, In the statement, they said they hoped her soul could "finally rest in peace".
Bellfield gave details of Milly's hour ordeal to police last year. Last month, Surrey Police said serial killer Bellfield had admitted the schoolgirl's abduction, rape and killing for the first time.
The family said they were issuing the statement because they believed what had been revealed so far did not reflect Bellfield's "true heinousness" to the general public. Levi Bellfield: Profile of a 'heinous' serial killer. They said year-old Bellfield abducted Milly and assaulted her at his flat near Walton station. He then drove her to his mother's house and raped her.
After this the killer took Milly to another location where her rape and torture continued, until he strangled her the following day. The teenager's body was found in September , six months after her murder, in a wood in Yateley Heath, Hampshire - 25 miles from Walton-on-Thames. Experts could not say how she died.
The family also revealed that when Bellfield asked to speak to police about the crime he said he would only talk to female police officers. Bellfield was given a whole-life prison sentence in June for Milly's murder. At this point Surrey Police apologised to the Dowlers for the force's failings in the aftermath of Milly's disappearance. Bellfield - who already had a long criminal record, including for violence - lived along the route the teenager took the day she disappeared, yet although it is claimed officers knocked on his door 11 times they got no reply and he was never questioned.
But he's a cunning individual, violent. He can switch from being nice to being nasty, instantly. For the past 13 years, he has been incarcerated at two different high-security prisons. MORE: Addicted to true-crime documentaries? Today, Bellfield remains the UK's only serial killer to be sentenced to two life sentences meaning he will spend the rest of his life behind bars with no chance of release or parole. Like this story?
The Surrey schoolgirl went missing on 21 March , and the ensuing ordeal for her family would drag on for a painfully protracted period until the spotlight eventually fell on an already infamous killer: Levi Bellfield.
Milly was snatched in broad daylight while on her way home from school. Somehow, while walking that short distance, she was taken in an almost inconceivably audacious kidnapping.
So audacious, in fact, that police speculated Milly surely had to have known her abductor, and had gone with them of her own free will. But they were wrong. And, as more time elapsed with no breakthrough in the disappearance, detectives warned the Dowlers that they should brace themselves for the worst-case scenario.
The murder investigation, the largest in the history of Surrey Police, was frustrating and troubling.
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