Rachel Shannon

At the time, John and Lois were living in a home in Great Battle Essex, as I said, where they had lived for 20 years.

Neighbors described John and Lois as being quiet and keeping to themselves, never really making efforts to talk to their neighbors or really anybody in their community.

When John would come out, he always looked like he was in a hurry or made himself busy with something.

Meanwhile, if Lois was walking down the street, she would look down at the pavement and avoid eye contact with neighbors.

According to reports, the couple's youngest daughter, then 36-year-old Virginia, had been living with her parents for around five years.

Back in 2017, Virginia had worked as a bartender at a local pub.

After that, she told her parents that she was working as a web designer.

Neighbors described that they also occasionally saw Virginia, saying that she was always pretty nice, but a little bit odd.

She was friendly enough, not making too much of a stir in the neighborhood.

She could be a bit chatty with the neighbors at times, not really responding much to social cues or understanding maybe when a conversation should be over.

But overall, nothing about Virginia stood out too much to neighbors and she was generally described as nice.

Now, even though Lois and John mostly kept themselves and didn't socialize too much with neighbors, they did have their close-knit friends who they kept up with.

John specifically, he would always meet up with this one friend most Fridays for a drink at the local White Horse pub.

Like I said, John was a man of routine, so this was something he kept up with.

So this friend was a bit surprised to learn that by June of 2019, John and Lois decided to up and leave the area and move to the coast without really any warning.

Those around Lois and John started to see less and less of them around this time until months started passing and no one heard from either of them.

Again, neighbors only saw them a few times a week to begin with, but now they noticed that John and Lois were never coming out of their home.

the curtains were always drawn so no one could ever see what was going on inside either.

However, when questions started to arise about Lois and John's whereabouts, Virginia told neighbors that she was actually staying at the house to oversee repairs being made to a retaining wall.

She told these neighbors, as well as other friends of the couple, that they moved to Clacton, an adorable coastal area northeast of London.