Detective Constable Tom Ryan finally solved the six-year mystery of Richard Dyson's disappearance after re-examining old phone records and tracking down a diary entry that led him to a padlocked cattle trailer on a Barnsley farm. Dyson, 55, vanished in November 2019 while living in his car on Christopher Wright's farm, and although police long suspected foul play, they lacked a body to prove murder until the breakthrough investigation in 2025.

A phone call Wright made in November 2019 led Ryan to farmer Ian Ollerenshaw, who unexpectedly still had a leather diary recording that Wright had dropped off an old trailer that day. Inside the overgrown, undisturbed trailer, officers found a concrete-filled barrel with human bones protruding from it; a post-mortem confirmed the remains were Dyson's and showed he had been shot before being dismembered and encased in concrete. Wright, 73, and his friend Karl Schwalbe, 72, were convicted on 28 July, with Wright jailed for 35 years for murder and Schwalbe given three years for perverting the course of justice.