Elena

Right.

Audrey Ockenden, his mother, said he seems to have vanished into thin air.

According to the press, the police at Scotland Yard were, quote, reluctant to get involved because Ken Jr.

had been missing for less than a month.

So much of the search fell to the family, who were unprepared and completely unfamiliar with the city and the country.

Which is awful that it like fell on them to find, try to find him.

Kenneth's father said, I'll stay until something turns up.

We hope every day that there'll be some sort of information.

Like his family was just like, I'm not leaving until I find him.

How could you?

Yeah.

Months passed and the search continued, but nothing much came of it.

And despite having kept a very detailed diary of his movements around the city, Kenneth's entries stop on the afternoon of December 2nd, right before he met Dennis Nilsen.

That is haunting.

And there was no indication of what happened or where he went that day.

Dennis kept himself company with Kenneth's body for several weeks, but eventually the cold space beneath the floorboards couldn't stop the natural process of decay, so he stopped taking Kenneth's body out of its hiding spot.

In the months after this, Dennis carried on with life as usual until May 17th, 1980, when he met 16-year-old Martin Duffy, who was a runaway.

A few days earlier, Duffy had left his parents' house telling them he was just going to the library, but instead he hitchhiked to London.

The last time anyone had seen him was the day he arrived in the city and was detained by police for failing to pay a train fee.

Okay.