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# Discovered in the hunt for Sian, the victim hardly anyone missed
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## The second body discovered by detectives leading the Sian O'Callaghan
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investigation has been named as that of Rebecca Godden, a drug addict who
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disappeared from Swindon nine years ago.
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TelegraphPlayer-8429449
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[Link to this video][1]
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By [Mark Hughes][2], and Richard Savill 7:30AM BST 06 Apr 2011
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[Follow Mark Hughes on Twitter][3]
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Police discovered human remains in a field in the Cotswolds after 47-year-old
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Christopher Halliwell, who has been charged with Miss O'Callaghan's murder,
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told police of the whereabouts of a body during his interview last month.
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Miss Godden, who would have been 29 on Monday, was discovered last week and
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was identified through her DNA.
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She went missing in 2002 after becoming "disconnected" from her family when
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she developed a drug habit, Wiltshire Police said. She was not reported
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missing until 2007 when her family reported her disappearance to the National
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Missing Person's Helpline.
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Miss Godden's mother, Karen Edwards, was searching for Miss Godden online last
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year. On the website Missingyou.net, she posted: "Karen Edwards is trying to
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trace the location of Becky she has been missing for 8 years, and I need to
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contact her urgent or just to know that she is ok! can anyone help? she could
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also be in the Bristol area."
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Yesterday her family released a short statement which read: "The family is
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completely devastated by the news of Becky's death and at this time wish to be
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left alone to grieve for our beautiful daughter."
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## Related Articles
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* [Profile of murder suspect Chris Halliwell][4]
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26 Mar 2011
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* [Becky 'did not deserve her horrific death'][5]
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11 Apr 2011
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* [Sian O'Callaghan murder: our memories will comfort us say family][6]
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29 Mar 2011
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* [Sian O'Callaghan's father pays tribute to his daughter][7]
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28 Mar 2011
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* [Father's tribute to 'bubbly, friendly, caring and loving girl'][8]
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28 Mar 2011
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Police sources said that Miss Godden was living a "chaotic lifestyle" when she
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disappeared. An article in a local newspaper from 2002 reported she had been
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using drugs since the age of 15 and had once robbed a pub after being
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threatened by her boyfriend at knifepoint.
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She admitted burgling the Trout Inn in Lechlade, Glos, on May 30, 2001, and
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stealing 100 packets of cigarettes, £25 in cash and a handbag containing £18.
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Her conviction was the reason she was on the DNA database, the means by which
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detectives identified her.
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Miss Godden, who would have been 29 last Monday, was last seen in 2002 when
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she apparently left Swindon. Her family appear to have thought she had either
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gone to London or Bristol.
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Miss Godden grew up in the Shaw area of Swindon with her mother, father John
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and brother Steven. She was living with her mother, a hairdresser, and her
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stepfather Charles Edwards, who owns an amusement arcade, in a farmhouse at
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the time of her disappearance.
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Last night, Miss Godden's grandfather, Morris Brown, 69, a roof tiler, said:
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"I am devastated. When I knew her she was a bubbly girl."
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David Godden, Rebecca's uncle, who works for the DVLA said from his home in
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Normanton, Derbyshire: "She was a nice girl and she might have fallen in with
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a bad crowd and gone off the rails.
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"She was a beautiful, blonde girl. My brother always hoped that there would be
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a reconciliation one day."
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A source said the picture of Miss Godden's life before her disappearance was
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unclear. "She got into drug abuse and was living a chaotic lifestyle.
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"Her family knew that she had drifted into drug abuse. She was a beautiful
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girl. It's a crying shame it came to this."
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Police were unable to comment on whether she had been working as a prostitute
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before her death. They added: "It's an area we're looking into but her family
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aren't aware of anything like that."
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Miss Godden's remains were found in a shallow grave. Her naked body had been
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covered by a thin layer of top soil.
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Because of the length of time her body had been in the ground, tests were
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unable to establish a cause of death for Miss Godden. But police believe she
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was sexually assaulted before her death. Detectives say they will now speak to
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Mr Halliwell about Miss Godden's murder.
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Mr Halliwell, a taxi driver, has been charged with murdering Miss O'Callaghan,
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who disappeared following a night out with friends in Swindon on March 19.
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The 22-year-old is believed to have been abducted as she left the Suju
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nightclub. Her body was discovered five days later, near the White Horse of
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Uffington, Oxfordshire, after Mr Halliwell told detectives where she was
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buried.
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An inquest showed that she was likely to have died of head injuries.
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Miss O'Callaghan was reported missing by her boyfriend, Kevin Reape, 25, who
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became concerned when she did not return to the flat they shared in Swindon
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and did not reply to his text message.
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* ### [News »][15]
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