Rikki Neave's disappearance in November 1994 sparked a police manhunt, a media frenzy, and a search for justice that would last 27 years.
The discovery of the six-year-old's body less than 24 hours later, in woodland near his home in Peterborough - naked and arranged in a star shape - captured international attention and spawned dark, occult conspiracy theories in an age before the internet.
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