Overview

• Sheila Fox, now 68, vanished from Coventry in 1972, making her case one of the UK's longest-running missing person investigations.
• West Midlands Police reopened the cold case in late December 2024, sharing a grainy black-and-white photo of Fox from the time of her disappearance on social media and their website.
• Public tips in response to the photo led investigators to locate Fox living in another part of the country, where she was confirmed to be alive and in good health.
• Detective Sergeant Jenna Shaw credited advances in forensic technology and the persistence of the small cold case team for resolving the decades-old mystery.
• Fox’s reasons for disappearing remain unclear, and police have not disclosed her current location or further details about her life since 1972.