Geoff Knupfer

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Lines of Enquiry · Case Notes #007: The Disappeared · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

We said to the senior investigator, who was the detective chief superintendent, can we run this on the computer?

First time.

Can we run this on a computer?

And you can imagine him going, oh my goodness me.

And very wisely, he said, yeah, you can run this on computer if you want, but I also want a paper backup done side by side.

And would you believe, about four days into the inquiry, the computer packed up.

So that was, you know, as I say, I'm quite a...

It certainly helps on occasion.

I'm going to say the other little aside, interesting little aside, this system that I'm talking about.

We had an air disaster just the year before yesterday.

the review into the Moors murders occurred.

An aircraft caught fire at Manchester Airport and 50-odd people were killed.

It was an appalling case.

And dental records became a big issue.

And one of the guys I worked with, who was a bit of an IT whiz, you know, he was ahead of his time at this, and he said...

I think I can use this computerized system that we're talking about.

It has a vehicle description index on it.

And he said, I think I can use that vehicle descriptive index to record dental records.

And I can always remember this forensic odontologist said, don't be stupid.

Don't be stupid, man.

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