Despite the lack of a body, Marie Claire UK states that the police are adamant that Lawrence was murdered. In fact, YorkshireLive reports that there have been nine arrests in connection to her disappearance. However, nothing has come from these arrests and no one has ever been charged with a crime. Some believe that Lawrence left the UK to start a new life in Cyprus, an island that she had visited multiple times before. Her parents denied this theory. According to The Independent, the police found little in their investigation into Lawrence’s disappearance between 2009 through 2017. The police eventually revealed that they had “scaled down” on their efforts.
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Although it’s been years since Lawrence inexplicably vanished, the police have said that they “will never give up on Claudia until it is known who is responsible for her disappearance and suspected murder” (via YorkshireLive). In 2021, North Yorkshire Police searched the Sand Hutton gravel pits near York (per the BBC). They did not disclose why they were looking in this specific area, only that it was one of “several active lines of inquiry.” The Guardian writes that investigators searched the area for two weeks but found nothing pertaining to Lawrence’s disappearance. Even so, Detective Superintendent Wayne Fox noted that “we are committed to establishing what happened to Claudia and bringing closure for her family.”
