On the morning of December 7, 1989, workmen laying pipes at a house in Cardiff's Fitzhamon Embankment made a tragic discovery. They found a body wrapped in a carpet and buried in a shallow grave near the door to a basement flat at number 29.
At first who the person was and how they had died was a mystery but police using techniques that were just being trialled at the time they discovered the body was that of 15-year-old Karen Price. She was a teenager who had been in care from the age of 10 and who was named 'Little Miss Nobody' because her disappearance eight years before had not been recorded and no-one had gone looking for her.
And it was to be months after the body was found that police were able to establish her identity. Esteemed Home Office pathologist Bernard Knight was called to the scene and was able to confirm that the body was a teenage girl who had probably been killed about eight years before but that description did not match any missing people on record because the assessment home in Pontypridd where Karen had been living did not file a report.
