About the Show
Lee Boxell was a cheerful, well-liked 15-year-old from South London. When his parents left him half-asleep in their living room armchair one Saturday morning in 1988 they thought he was off to a football match and they had no idea they’d never see him again. Lee went into Sutton town center to meet a friend but then disappeared.
Lee had asked friends about going to a football match – could he have been abducted en-route? Another teenage boy had disappeared in the same area a couple of years before, so could a serial killer be responsible? Or could Lee have decided to run away and is he now living a new life elsewhere? One person told the police they’d seen him months after the day he disappeared.
A cold case review in 2010 focussed on the most sinister theory of all. Near Lee’s home, a convicted pedophile was running an informal youth club known as The Shed in the graveyard of a church in Cheam. In this documentary one witness testifies how she knew of child sex abuse going on around her – and talks for the first time of the bloodstained mattress she saw days after Lee’s disappearance. Might Lee, on that final day, have gone to the graveyard, seen abuse happening, and been silenced? This theory led to the longest and costliest forensic dig in Metropolitan Police history, but no body was found in the graveyard.
For Lee’s parents, now ageing, there have been no answers for more than 30 years. Lee’s dad has become a leading light in the chart-topping Missing People’s choir. It helps him and Lee’s mum deal with their grief. But what they really long for is to know what happened to their teenage son. Is he missing, or was he murdered?
Year - 2019
Cast & Crew:
Producer: Robin Anderson
Director: Robin Anderson
Executive Producer: Cat Lewis
About the Show
Lee Boxell was a cheerful, well-liked 15-year-old from South London. When his parents left him half-asleep in their living room armchair one Saturday morning in 1988 they thought he was off to a football match and they had no idea they’d never see him again. Lee went into Sutton town center to meet a friend but then disappeared.
Lee had asked friends about going to a football match – could he have been abducted en-route? Another teenage boy had disappeared in the same area a couple of years before, so could a serial killer be responsible? Or could Lee have decided to run away and is he now living a new life elsewhere? One person told the police they’d seen him months after the day he disappeared.
A cold case review in 2010 focussed on the most sinister theory of all. Near Lee’s home, a convicted pedophile was running an informal youth club known as The Shed in the graveyard of a church in Cheam. In this documentary one witness testifies how she knew of child sex abuse going on around her – and talks for the first time of the bloodstained mattress she saw days after Lee’s disappearance. Might Lee, on that final day, have gone to the graveyard, seen abuse happening, and been silenced? This theory led to the longest and costliest forensic dig in Metropolitan Police history, but no body was found in the graveyard.
For Lee’s parents, now ageing, there have been no answers for more than 30 years. Lee’s dad has become a leading light in the chart-topping Missing People’s choir. It helps him and Lee’s mum deal with their grief. But what they really long for is to know what happened to their teenage son. Is he missing, or was he murdered?
Year - 2019
Cast & Crew:
Producer: Robin Anderson
Director: Robin Anderson
Executive Producer: Cat Lewis