Episode 3 Reported Missing

-PHONE RINGS

-Police emergency.

Every two minutes, someone in Britain is reported missing.

You feel total panic.

Was there anything in the address

that shows any sort of planned absences, any note?

There are hundreds of different reasons

as to why people might be missing from home.

-THUNDERCLAP

-Concerns are growing for the welfare

of a missing Darlington pensioner.

-Archie!

-Losing time can be catastrophic.

A key for each investigation

is to piece together the missing person's last known movements.

Some crumb, a sighting. That's what we're after - proof of life.

What is going on in your head? Where are you going?

What are you going to go and do next?

Following Durham Police, cameras capture everyone's perspective,

minute by minute, as the cases unfold.

She saw the male at the cemetery.

He was seen leaving the cemetery and turning right.

For loved ones left at home, everything hangs in the balance.

You see people missing all the time, but you don't actually feel it

until it actually happens to somebody who's close.

It's the worst feeling in the world.

It doesn't matter how close you are to somebody, everybody has secrets.

I've found it. I've found him! I've just found him now!

I want to know where my son is. I need to be with him.

-RADIO:

-'BBC Tees.'

'Raining heavy overnight right across our region, it was.

'Lots of puddles on my way in,

'but it seems to be bright blue skies at the minute.

'Is it going to last?'

# Hey, hey, hey, hey

# Oo-ooh

# Whoa... #

..who can assist us with a search for a missing elderly person?

He's in his 80s.

..and he walks with a stick.

No, I'm at home now, at Dad's home,

with the police now, speaking to them, making enquiries.

No, they haven't found him yet, no.

The police are doing everything possible, believe me, they are.

When Archie's son, Peter, went to check

on his 82-year-old father as usual...

Well, he's never done anything like that before.

..he found the house empty.

I know you reported your dad missing

and my colleague has given us a picture, which we've got there.

-Is that the most recent picture of your dad?

-That I know of.

-Who are the other two people, do you know?

-Sister...

-Yeah.

-..and my mum. My mum's just died recently of Alzheimer's.

-Right.

-And my dad also has Alzheimer's.

-Right, OK.

And who are the other family members?

-I have three other brothers. I'm the oldest of four.

-Right, OK.

-Are they aware of any contact from your dad at all?

-No.

-OK, then.

Peter was the last person to see Archie over 30 hours ago,

but no-one knows precisely when he went missing.

The family are hurting and you've got to be mindful of emotions

that you're dealing with.

But at the same time,

I have got a short space of time to gather as much information as I can.

The Yellow Pages are open here at a certain page.

-There's nothing that sticks out?

-No.

-Right.

-You haven't seen anything untoward?

-No, no.

He's on medication now and social services come Monday to Friday,

-so I see he gets medication Saturdays and Sundays.

-Mm-hmm.

-Where did your dad leave his medication then?

-I'll show you.

-The date is Monday.

-Mm-hmm. So, he's last taken these on Tuesday.

-Tuesday.

-Right. How was he eating then? Was he eating well?

Well...that's why I came this morning

-to see what he needs shopping.

-Right.

At Darlington police station,

Inspector Peter Hoole takes charge of the investigation.

PCSO Angus from 1383.

A case like this one, we're looking at the vulnerability,

his age, the time that he's already been missing.

Everything about it says this is high risk and it's high risk now.

We left the hospital about five minutes ago. It was a negative.

The East End Club's also been checked on Neasham Road,

and negative.

Yeah, negative in Sainsbury's. Over.

-That nursing home his wife was in?

-It's a negative.

With no sign of Archie anywhere in the local area,

Sergeant Barry Evans calls a briefing.

Right, as you're already aware,

our missing from home is Archibald Campbell, 82 years of age.

The last confirmed sighting was 11am yesterday morning by his son.

Major concerns around the dementia that he suffers.

Diagnosed one year one year ago and takes donepezil.

Medication hasn't been taken this morning.

That's still standing so, without it,

it actually exaggerates the effect of his dementia, unfortunately.

He lost his partner only two months ago,

which has, obviously, really had a significant effect.

I want you to do a round of house to house with the neighbours,

try and gain any information we can

as regards has he got any previous places of interest,

beauty spots that him and wife, when she was alive,

used to attend, anything that's significant.

Right, just keep us informed. We'll leave it at that for now.

You're trying to work why has he gone missing.

Is it a physicality thing -

he's slipped, he's fallen, he's hurt himself -

and we need to find him because he needs our assistance medically?

Is it a case of he's taken a walk that's too far?

Is he bewildered and doesn't know what to do?

Or, alternatively, possibly, somebody's taken advantage

of his vulnerabilities because he's not quite aware of what's going on.

Darlington is a close-knit community

and having lived on the same street for over 50 years,

Archie is well-known to all his neighbours.

Mr Campbell, Archie Campbell, has gone missing.

He's been missing a couple of days now.

We are quite concerned about him.

-Well, his wife died just a couple of months ago.

-Right.

-When did you last see him?

-Two days ago.

-Where was it? Just in the street?

-Yeah, walking past here.

-How did he seem?

-I noticed a change in him over the...

That's since his wife's passed away, is it?

-He used to walk very sprightly, you know.

-Right.

-He's slowing down a bit.

-Slowing down and he's got a stick.

-He walks with a stick?

-Not all the time.

-Right.

So, he has it with him, doesn't always use it. Right.

'I've never wanted to see Archie as much. Is he OK?

'Are we going to find him? Are we going to find him alive?'

You see people missing all the time, but you don't actually feel it

until it actually happens to somebody who's close.

It's the worst feeling in the world. It's awful.

He loved painting.

He had his back room in his house upstairs as his painting room

and every time you visit, he'd take you up to show you his paintings.

He was very chatty.

If you'd see him, he'd say, "Now, Caz, you're looking well," you know.

And even if you didn't look well, he'd say you looked well, you know.

And he'd always say, "You don't look your age."

I remember my mum saying when he was a young man,

she said he was proper good-looking, everyone wanted to go out with him.

And he ended up marrying Pat.

Right, the other thing I was going to ask,

how was your dad in himself over the past week or two?

You've got to understand that my mum died just a few months ago.

-Yeah, I understand that, yeah.

-Since then...

-The first few weeks, my dad was confused, upset...

-Mm-hmm.

-..because of obvious things and his Alzheimer's.

-Yeah.

And he's calmed down. He realises what's happened, where at first,

he didn't quite realise what was going on.

Archie's wife, Pat, passed away just a few months ago...

..not long after their 60th wedding anniversary.

Ay, he missed her, without a doubt.

That's all he cared for was my mum.

-Is your mum buried in Darlington?

-She is.

-Which cemetery is she buried in?

-Carmel Road.

-Carmel Road.

-Yeah.

-Right, and is your mum's ashes there or is the actual...?

-Ashes.

-Ashes.

-But is there, like, a grave plot?

-No.

-RADIO BEEPS

-Two secs. Sorry, Peter.

Geoff Moore.

Geoff, are you free to speak or are you still with the son?

Yeah, just for your information,

Peter's mentioned about his mum's passing.

Her ashes are at Carmel Road cemetery.

-There's no particular plot.

-Yeah, that's brilliant, Geoff, thank you.

-Are you free to speak?

-Yeah, go on.

Yeah, Carmel Road. It's a big cemetery.

..a memory from a previous time, and that's what he locks onto.

-Any idea where the plot is or not?

-No, her ashes were scattered, mate.

There wasn't a plot so, unfortunately, it's huge.

-Going there now before it gets too dark.

-Cheers, mate.

With daylight fading fast and no other leads to go on,

the cemetery is now the last realistic chance

of finding Archie before nightfall.

'It can be one of the most pressured parts of the job,

'a high-risk missing case.'

You know every action you're taking and every lead you're following

could result in life or death.

You could find that person or be too late.

Archie idolised Pat.

They never really talked about each other,

but you could tell how close they were

cos they did everything together.

Everywhere Pat was, Archie was.

I don't think he ever really got to grips

with her having to go into a home.

Archie blamed Peter...

..for his mum going in the home.

But it wasn't Peter's fault, you know. She HAD to go in.

He used to just say,

"Pat shouldn't be in there, Pat should be at home with me."

He went to that home three times a day

to be with her - breakfast, dinner and tea, every day.

He went right up until Pat passed away.

He was heartbroken.

It absolutely devastated him.

I remember going to visit him and he was saying

how he doesn't like the loneliness and the quietness in his house.

He's lost his soulmate.

Yeah, that's all received.

Hello, sir. We're looking for a guy from Darlington.

His wife's ashes were scattered here about three months ago

in the memorial garden. An 82-year-old male has gone missing.

I didn't get a full sort of look at his face.

-It was, like, to the side, really.

-Yeah.

But whoever it was had whitish hair and that sort of clothing.

About half three today and he was walking sort of out the gates.

-What, he walked out the cemetery?

-Yeah.

-Which way was he walking?

-To the right.

I mean, it could have been anybody,

but it certainly looked like a gentleman that walked past.

Barry, it's Lee. An update from the cemetery.

At half past three today, he's seen a gentleman leave the cemetery.

He's quite sure it could possibly be our misper.

He can't confirm it for certain but it looked very much like him.

He's left the cemetery grounds, turning right.

So, that would take him down to the bridge area.

Right.

Whenever the bridge is mentioned in a missing from home inquiry,

I, because of historic involvement with it,

I always think worst-case scenario.

Can we confirm, is there anything in the address

that shows any sort of planned absences,

any notes, anything like that?

When somebody is at the latter stages of their life,

and they lose a lot of things all at once,

such as loved ones, independence,

these can all have an effect on somebody,

to the point where they feel suicide is an option for them.

If you turn right, there's a bridge just there.

I know I've gone through an awful lot of stuff, Pete,

and I appreciate your time. I know it's a difficult time for you.

Are you aware of any notes that's been left?

-There's nothing that sticks out?

-No.

-Right.

And would your dad talk to you if there was any other issues?

-Yeah, if there was something to be said, he would tell me.

-Right.

There's no sign of Archie at the bridge.

-Yeah, negative. Over.

-Received, thanks.

The only other thing was the loft hatch there.

How do you get access to that? Is there a ladder downstairs?

Cos that's one of the things I'll be asked to check.

-I know it sounds a bit strange, but...

-The likelihood of him...

-Uh-huh.

-..going downstairs, getting something up here to get up there,

for what reason, is nil.

I fully understand that. It's just one of the things...

There's nothing up there

because they put double rows of insulation up there.

-Right.

-Why on earth would he want to go there?

I've just been asked by my supervisor

-if I've checked the whole house.

-Yeah.

Is there anything you want to ask me at all, Peter?

I think we've just about covered everything, do you?

I'm doing my best I can.

I know it may seem silly questions but, again, like I say,

I'm just trying to find out as much information as I can.

With the trail gone cold, at Darlington police station...

So, house search.

..Inspector Peter Hoole is reviewing progress on the case.

-So, he's a bit of a loner.

-Mm-hmm.

-Doesn't particularly go anywhere.

There's nothing else to suggest any area

where he's actually going to be.

No, we don't have a direction at all.

We can't narrow it down and, to be fair,

Geoff has been talking quite in detail with the son.

-Right, we're not getting a lot of information from the house.

-No.

HE SIGHS

Hmm.

Right, will you do us a favour?

-Will you go to the address and speak to the son yourself?

-Yeah.

And satisfy yourself that we've got

everything that we possibly can from there,

cos it's...it's a little bit disjointed,

-what's coming from there. Yeah?

-Yeah.

I know my colleague's been asking you quite a few questions already.

OK.

Is it possible that he got up early this morning,

put the house in order and left?

Right, OK.

30-93-70-62.

-Go ahead.

-Yeah, some information from the address.

The curtains were not drawn.

The house was left as it would have been left from the Tuesday morning.

-Roger.

-Are we all right to pop back in the address, please?

-Sure.

-Do you want to come in with us as well?

-Yeah.

Police are keen to know how the curtains were left

to try and work out whether Archie left his house today or yesterday.

If it was yesterday,

this will be his second night out, exposed to the elements.

I'm going to quickly nip next door before it gets too late

-and speak to the neighbours.

-You already have.

I know, but I'll just go and ask them again,

just in case there's something we might have missed, OK.

One of the things we want to cover with the neighbours is, obviously,

because we found the curtains open this morning, did they notice...?

So, when I said earlier on,

"Was the house left as it would be on a morning?",

you said to me that the curtains were open, like he could have gone

on the Tuesday, but the curtains were closed?

Right, OK.

No problem, Peter. Thank you.

Speak to the neighbours and find out

if they noticed whether the curtains were closed

-and which nights they've noticed them closed.

-Yeah.

-Barry?

-Peter's account of how he found the house has changed.

When I got here, he was telling me that the house was in order,

that the curtains were open, and the like,

then, when he's heard me task Geoff go and do house to house

in relation to the state of the house overnight,

he's now saying that the curtains were closed again.

Roger. Um, I'm sure you know what I'm thinking about,

as regards to this one.

Is there anything at all that would suggest

this is anything other than a missing from home?

I'm starting to get a bit of a concern with this guy.

He doesn't want to be asked too many questions

and he's uncomfortable with our presence.

I don't where this is going... but there's something amiss.

When things don't add up, so you have one piece of information

that's conflicting with another,

then you start a reasonable, "Why? Why is there that conflict?"

You can't ignore it.

Most murder cases start off as a missing from home.

Um, we're going to have to go worst-case scenario.

Obviously, we've got to cover all eventualities.

I want his car searching and a search of his house.

Yeah, no problem.

-Um, Peter's asking about going home. It's getting late.

-Mm-hmm.

Um, we're going to facilitate that but, before we do,

we're going to search the house again.

We're just going to look for anything that stands out.

No problem at all.

'All of a sudden, now you're starting to think of the possibility

'that the person you're relying upon for a lot of information

'may be steering you off the truth'

or may have something to hide.

-Got a torch?

-There's my torch which is attached to a lanyard.

Happy there's no boards in the insulation?

Hang on, there's another bit of an apex here. Two secs.

All right.

PHONE RINGS

What's that ringing? Is it the house phone?

-Are you clear?

-Clear.

PHONE CONTINUES RINGING

PHONE CONTINUES RINGING

Hello? Hello?

PHONE GOES DEAD

Hello?

As word of Archie's disappearance spreads,

one of his neighbours, whose property is covered by home CCTV,

has come forward with potential new evidence.

-Yeah.

-There's a couple of things you've noticed.

-Yeah.

There was an elderly woman we saw show up and she came from...

She parked over here.

Is it anybody you recognise? Have you seen her before?

No, and I've seen that elderly gentleman all the time.

He's a bit of a wanderer.

He just does his own little circle around the neighbourhood.

-There she is right there.

-Is that her there?

-Yeah, yeah.

-That's 9.28.

-9.28.

It doesn't make any sense. You see her walking down the street

and she's walking and she walks past his house and then she stops

and turns her head and she looks as if something had stopped her

and got her attention. Do you see? She stops.

-She walks past, pauses, then goes in the drive, doesn't she?

-Yeah.

-Been there quite a while, hasn't she?

-Yeah, she stays around.

She hangs round the house for a bit.

But she was also looking around the bends as well.

It's like, "Yeah, she's looking for something."

-There she goes.

-There we go.

You see her and she's running, which I thought was very strange.

-There's the blue car.

-OK, pause it there.

Is this someone who you think, "Whose son is this?"

-That's now stopping outside the address. Do you know his son?

-Mm.

-He doesn't appear to go to the address, does he?

-No, he doesn't.

That's why I said, "If he's the son, shouldn't he have the key

"or access, especially if his father has dementia and stuff?"

He's not alone in the vehicle.

-I believe there's someone else there.

-Right.

He's just walked out the car and he's now stood in the door.

It's quite hard to see, but...

You can still see some movement round the doorway.

He's still outside at the house.

Moping around in front of the house, going through the bins and stuff?

He's leaving the house now.

You see where he's getting into the car - the passenger side.

Could be talking to somebody in the car.

If you're OK, on a disc for me, if you will,

yesterday's and today's on a disc.

Peter, I'm not trying to be difficult.

My sergeant said, "Secure the property and seize the keys."

Is that the only key for the back door,

-the one that's on the string?

-As far as I know.

-Right, OK, fine.

What's the latest there?

Paul and Mike are going to take him to his home address.

They'll be searching his home address

and his vehicle at that address

and they're being made aware of the additional sort of concerns.

-Straight down?

-Straight down, yeah.

I'll let you know before we get there.

Straight down to the junction at the end and turn right.

Left here, please.

-Does your dad ever come and stay with you?

-No, he didn't, no.

-My dad's very, very independent.

-Right.

Right, this next block of houses on your left is where I live,

so you can park anywhere on your left here. This'll do.

It's just inquiries, to be fair.

It's they way that we do for everyone. A different set of eyes

and we'll just look for clues and bits and bobs.

I've probably been a police officer for too long.

I'm desensitised to a lot of it.

'I think I'm like most cops of a certain age. I'm very cynical.'

I don't trust anybody, apart from my family...

..and colleagues.

I wouldn't suggest going up there. You can if you wish.

If you're the sole carer for a less abled person...

..a person with dementia,

you see the person that you loved more than anything else in the world

slowly declining and declining, getting worse and worse,

has the person ended their life?

Have they done it out of mercy?

The police are now in MY home, searching MY home.

They said it's procedure, it's what they need to do.

So, that's the state of affairs then, isn't it?

Where my dad is I do not know.

We're done with the house search, searched the house and the vehicle

and nothing obvious, nothing untoward.

I'm happy to leave the address.

-Like I say, it might seem a bit intrusive.

-Yeah.

I understand you have jobs to do.

-It's just to satisfy everything, you know.

-Yeah.

-Make sure that we've done the job right.

-Yeah.

Don't take it personally, don't take it the wrong way.

-I'm not at all.

-OK.

-OK.

-I honestly believe he's gone for a walk and he's fallen.

-Right.

-Is he quite unsteady on his feet?

-Yeah, very unsteady.

-OK.

He's had numerous falls.

Hello, sir, it's Peter Hoole. How are you doing?

It's 11 o'clock and I'm going to give you a quick update

on what we've found out so far.

That update is not a whole hell of a lot.

Um, the big thing is that there are some discrepancies

in what we've been told by the family member on scene

and what the neighbours are telling us,

regarding activity at the house.

Now, we're not jumping the gun

or sort of trying to paint a picture that doesn't need painting,

but we're sort of, like, widening our thought process at the minute

to make sure that we're not going to miss anything

that's staring us in the face.

With no hard evidence of Archie's whereabouts,

it's still possible that he's just lost or injured somewhere,

but it's now been 36 hours since he was last seen

and in that time, the distance he could have travelled is vast.

Can you let Tango 1 know, regarding our high-risk missing from home,

we'd like air support.

They will be dispatching an aircraft shortly.

NPAS from 2149.

Go ahead, 2149.

Yeah, I'm on the ground at the minute.

With the helicopter overhead,

specialist police search adviser Andy Reeves takes charge

of coordinating the search.

I've asked the helicopter to do this area here.

Can you just confirm you've checked the river?

'If you're looking at the case where dementia's involved,

'your search parameters can be quite wide.'

They can go to quite long distances

from their home address.

A recent case I dealt with, that person was found 13 miles away.

I was just wondering if it's worth us

going in on foot, just to clarify...

-I would think that's one of the things to do.

-Yeah.

The helicopter cameras, they have the infrared cameras,

so they're looking for heat sources.

A human would stand out in a cold field.

The difficulty you've got is, with their cameras,

you can't see through any heavy forest or wooded type areas.

Because of the ruralness of our county,

there is a lot of areas they cannot cover.

HELICOPTER WHIRRS

WHISTLE

With fears for Archie growing by the minute,

a group of volunteers from the local mountain rescue team

have been called in to join the search.

The information is that, in his younger days, he was a para,

so if he's suffering from a dementia that was showing, shall we say,

and he's reverted back to his days of thinking he's a para,

it isn't unusual for him to walk 20 miles.

We had a water release from the reservoir upstream on the Tees today

so, obviously, if he's gone waterborne,

that's going to cause us major problems.

What's the Skerne like as a river? Is it a little brook or is it a...?

It's quite fast-flowing in places.

What height would it be at the moment?

I imagine it will be quite high cos of all the rain we had yesterday.

I don't want anybody entering the water when it's dark.

Stay out the water, just do the banks. Stick to the path.

-No water, all right?

-Yeah.

-Right.

'It's awful. You never think that someone close would disappear.'

He was a good friend. He saw me through some bad times.

You don't forget them things, do you?

He used to come down here a lot, heck of a lot.

He liked all the old films from the '30, '40s, '50s and '60s.

He did, I think, about 30 odd or more years in the army,

so he was a hard man, no doubt about that.

Archie!

Archie, it's Mountain Rescue.

He used to go out walking every Sunday.

Archie was ridiculous, 20 miles every Sunday,

things like that, you know.

Archie!

Until he became a little ill,

and then he couldn't get around much, really.

Yeah.

I just remember seeing him looking frail, looking old, looking weak...

..struggling to walk.

Archie!

Argh!

Archie!

Maybe he was a bit too frail to be out walking on his own, maybe.

To take his walks away from him

would have been like just the end of it for him.

They've already took Pat away and if they told him

he couldn't go out for his walks would have been too sad for him.

HELICOPTER WHIRRS

Just to let you know what we've done.

The open areas look fairly clear and there's a lot of trees.

Just want you to know we have coast clear

and it's a big area but we've done the best we can,

but I can't guarantee that it's all been covered.

Yeah, that's all received, NPAS. Thank you for your help.

Appreciate the circumstances we've got at present.

We'll contact you in the morning, should we need you.

Yeah, good luck. I hope you find him.

It's now the early hours of the morning

and as the helicopter heads back to base,

police search adviser Andy Reeves

orders one final attempt to find Archie.

Inspector Reeves has stated

that we are going to try and work through the cemetery as best we can.

I appreciate it's not the easiest of tasks

and there is such a large area to cover.

Has it not been searched already by PCSOs?

It has. He wants it doing again.

To be honest, even if we go through again tonight,

I don't necessarily think we can guarantee it's been cleared

-but that's what he's asking us to do.

-OK.

HE SIGHS

Bloody hell! I don't want to shit myself here!

The chances of a person, male or female, elderly,

surviving overnight in cold conditions...it is very slim.

Yeah, I think it's so difficult cos it's dark.

I have lost my bearings as to exactly where I am.

I can see a couple of flashes of torches,

but there's no way this is going to be a thorough search.

-It's just too dark.

-Yeah, understood.

Um, what level of surety can you give us?

-I appreciate you're not going to give us 100.

-No.

No, I fully expect that. Just give us an idea roughly where we are.

We haven't been able to do it as per the guidance of two meters apart,

simply by the sheer size of it and the numbers we're restricted to.

Right, OK. Um, I'm going to stand you down.

It's quite a...difficult decision to make.

You understand the reasons and the whys, but it's very difficult.

You kind of always think, "What if we just look just over there?

"He might be there."

There's always a sort of "what if" scenario

and you kind of feel that you're giving up.

But you can't keep looking forever.

I want to just thank every one of you for stopping on,

helping out, and I know that we all do it when we need to, OK.

Thank you very much for your efforts this evening.

-RADIO:

-'We are 11 minutes away from 7 now.

'Let's get the latest weather update.'

'A dry start, but rain spreading and becoming heavy at times,

'with highs today of 17 Celsius, 63 Fahrenheit.'

What I want to talk about is a high-risk missing from home

that was reported to ourselves around lunchtime yesterday.

Next morning, Superintendent Steve Chapman briefs officers,

ahead of day two of the investigation.

We believe, at this time, he was last seen

at around 11am on Tuesday by his son -

Peter Campbell, would that be right?

CID have been tasked with looking into the suspicions about the son.

Hi, is that Gill?

Gill, my name is Neil Stannard.

I'm a detective over at Darlington CID, at the police station.

Hi, could I speak to Peter Campbell, please?

It's Richard Garrett from Darlington CID.

I just wanted to speak to Peter with regards to Archie

and I was wanting to try and arrange to come and see Peter at an address,

at his home address, if that's where he's going.

I'd like to see him as soon as possible, please.

We need to establish the truth.

People display things in different ways but...

..a detective's instinct

on how people are displaying their emotions, their feelings,

or how they're reporting to us is crucial.

I will always consider a detective's views

when they've been to somebody's house, not just what they can give,

but how they feel about how that interaction went.

Control, delta, whiskey, radio check. Over.

While CID dig deeper into Peter's account,

the search on the ground is restarting,

this time with the benefit of daylight.

Archie!

Archie!

Archie!

After spending nearly an hour interviewing Archie's son, Peter,

the detectives are back to give their assessment.

He basically says at around nine o'clock yesterday,

that he's gone to the address.

He would normally go on a Wednesday

-to see what...to see if his dad wanted any shopping.

-Mm-hmm.

He sees that the curtains are closed and the door's locked,

goes into the house,

see that his dad's not there and the curtains are shut.

He opens the curtains, he then looks round the house and then comes out.

At around about 12 o'clock,

-he's gone back to his dad's home...

-Mm-hmm.

-..and dad's still not there.

-He's anxious and distressed.

-Mm.

So, I don't think I'd have any concerns about Peter

-and I don't think you have either, have you?

-No, nothing sinister.

I think he's just got his time wrong.

-Yeah, I think he's got his times wrong.

-He's tired.

And he's tired, cos he's had contact from three different police officers

-and he's tired by that.

-Mm-hmm.

-Family - engage with them regularly.

-Family's a close family.

All get on. There's no kind of family disputes.

-It was mentioned that they're all looking out for Dad.

-Mm-hmm.

There has never been a discussion about Archie going into a care home.

His dad's wish, basically, was, "I'm staying in this house until I die."

-Mm-hmm.

-But there was never a discussion from Peter saying to Dad,

"Do you not think it's time you went in a care home?"

I knew what dementia and Alzheimer's was all about,

but I never dreamt my dad would get it

after my mum...had come through it.

And, er...

Yeah, it's strange, it's a strange thing.

But...

He's always looked after himself,

he's always been a keen walker, like.

And up to that point, there's never been any, really, great concerns.

There is concerns as far as his memory's concerned,

but not as going missing.

He could always find his own way home, always has done.

Archie would say, "You'd never get me in a home."

I couldn't imagine the boys actually telling their dad what to do,

cos he was the dad of the family.

He was a strong man all his life.

It's hard to say that to someone, isn't it?

Especially when it's your dad.

This is a neighbour who's had the CCTV.

OK, so, there he is.

Sort of top of the screen, outside his house.

Stands there for a few minutes and then begins to wander over.

The detectives' instincts are confirmed by the neighbour's CCTV.

A thorough trawl has uncovered footage

showing Archie leaving his home alone and of his own accord.

Is he walking with a stick there?

-Can you see if he's walking with a stick?

-He is, he's got a stick.

He's got kind of, like, maybe bluey jeans,

a sort of green jumper, potentially.

It reveals that Archie left his home on Tuesday,

meaning this is now the third day he's been missing.

So, we've now got a time

that we can clearly see this guy leaving the house.

We need to be able to take a download of the CCTV

and allow it to be used from the media perspective.

It's imperative, if we can, to get a still from the CCTV,

so at least we can describe the clothing

we think he was wearing at the time.

From the media, if we're pushing something out,

we're going to get reports in from members of the public,

rightly so, but we need to be able to triage those quickly.

Absolutely, Paul, for example, "I know this man.

"It was this man and I seen him at 5pm."

That would be an action that I would want to prioritise

because they're saying they know him and it was him.

Let's get this out there.

How concerned are you about his welfare, in particular?

We're particularly concerned about Archie's welfare now.

It would really help us if the community could help

in looking for Archie.

We'd really urge them to check their back gardens, their sheds,

their outbuildings, even hedges and bushes, because what we do know

is that people who suffer from dementia often do go to these areas.

How are the family coping?

Understandably, they're upset about this

and they want to locate Archie

as quickly as possible, as we all do.

And that's the main objective of this.

We hope to find Archie fit and well and if we can all pull together -

the community, the family, the police -

hopefully, we'll have that resolution.

'Concerns are growing for the welfare

'of a missing Darlington pensioner.

'Archibald Campbell, who's known as Archie,

'was last seen at his home in the Parkside area on Tuesday afternoon.

'The 82-year-old, who suffers from dementia, is a keen walker.

'A full description and a picture of Archie can be found on our website.'

Durham Police, can I help?

Hello, um, I've just passed somebody on the road into Aldbrough St John.

Police emergency.

Hello, there's a man, Archie, that you've been looking for.

I've seen him walking back in the Burtree pub.

I don't even know if it was him. I saw an elderly bloke.

He was going at a fair old rate.

Did he look like the gentleman in the photo? Did you see?

-I only saw him from the back.

-Right.

Can you confirm it was him for me?

I couldn't, no, cos I don't know the man.

Might be nothing. I'm certain he walked past me in Horden yesterday.

-Towards Grange Road.

-Yesterday, I was in Boots.

-The football stadium.

-The railway line.

-Rugby club.

-Shakespeare Road.

-Airport.

Following the radio appeal, Durham Police received 23 new calls,

reporting potential sightings of Archie.

But Archie has still not been found.

There's obviously a cost involved,

in terms of the deploying of a helicopter.

It's £1,500 an hour.

If we're using a helicopter for extended hours of flying,

that is a lot of money that, ultimately,

the public are paying for.

We're going to have to return to base. We need fuel.

I don't know if there's any further search parameters.

At this moment, I'm awaiting instruction from the team.

Thank you very much for your assistance.

Archie has now been missing for nearly 53 hours,

without a single confirmed sighting.

The search will always continue while there's hope.

But...the longer it goes on,

the more, then, you know it's not going to be a positive outcome.

If I'm honest, at this point, it's a search for a body.

PHONE RINGS

-Afternoon, Durham Police.

-Good afternoon.

I drove on the bypass around about two, three o'clock on Tuesday,

and there was an old lad walking along the bypass

and he wasn't even facing the traffic.

He had a walking stick even.

And he looked staggered and a little bit confused.

Just around the bend where the railway line goes underneath.

That's where I saw him.

On Tuesday, I seen him walking along, do you know the bypass?

He didn't look very confident on his feet.

-And we're told he's walking away, along this route here.

-Yeah.

-This one right here.

-Hello, put a callout out.

-RADIO:

-'They've got him.

'I've got hold of him.'

INDISTINGUISHABLE

-Slowly.

-Stop, stop, stop.

-Stop, stop.

-Do you want me to help?

-Right.

-Prepare to lower. And lower.

-RADIO:

-'Hello, incident site one.'

-Come on, mate.

-Come on, Archie.

-Come on, Archie, good lad.

My name's Jo. All right, we're going to have a little look at you.

Are you hungry?

Yeah? Good lad.

Just put a little bit in at a time.

There you go. OK? How does it taste?

-Not too bad, eh?

-No.

-Oh, champion.

-It's freezing.

-Eh?

No, we're all right.

You all right there, Archie? Good, good fella.

-All right?

-Are you nice and warm?

'For two days, you were living and breathing this case.

'To be able to say to the family,

'"We've found him and he's alive," was absolutely unbelievable.'

Um, it isn't something you do regularly

with a case that goes on that long.

Archie! Archie! It's Donna.

Where've you been?

Ooh, yes, I look thin!

LAUGHTER

'To see him wide awake, smiling, was unbelievable.

'I just couldn't believe it.'

He was so happy, chatting away as if nothing had happened.

But it was a relief. It was lovely.

It's like the world's been lifted off your shoulders.

INAUDIBLE

A few tears, yeah, and he said, "I'm going to be all right.

"Don't worry about it. I don't know what all the fuss is about."

Yeah.

Done nothing. You don't need any holidays, do you?

I'm looking at the news.

You had a fall and you spent a fortnight in hospital,

then you came here, so how long do you think you've been here?

-A couple of months.

-Yeah, that's about right.

Yeah, yeah, you were bang on.

I knew if anyone was going to make it through a couple of nights,

it would be him, without a doubt.

I was in the paras and you could fall off anything,

on your head - well, it wouldn't hurt MY head much.

THEY CHUCKLE

-We beat everybody at everything.

-Mm.

-Mm. Fighting, anything.

'In an ideal world, I'd want my dad back at home

'but it's obvious to everybody'

that that's never going to happen now.

So, you have to accept the facts and just move on.

He's accepted it now.

I've accepted it, the family has.

He just looks happier in himself.

More relaxed, more chilled out, yeah.

When you were missing,

they searched your house for you and they searched the attic.

For what?

Then they came to MY house and searched MY house

and searched MY attic.

-A search? For what?

-Looking for YOU!

-Oh, I see.

-Ah, dear.

-Jesus Christ!

THEY LAUGH