Chilling Messages - Trevaline Evans

Disturbing messages have been posted on benches in connection to an antique shop                                 owner who went missing thirty-two years ago

"Justice awaits those responsible for the removal and disposal of Trevaline Evans (in this life or next) from Rhuddlan Golf Club on March 19, 2019, at noon. May the Lord have mercy upon their soul."

Trevaline Evans mysteriously vanished 32 years ago

On June 16, 1990, an Antique shop owner then aged 52 left a note in her shop window which read "Back in 10 minutes" and simply disappeared without a trace. 

Her car was left parked a little way from the shop and no money has ever been withdrawn from her bank account, there seems to have been no reason for the disappearance, no debts, no pressures, nothing untoward. The case still remains open today.

I published a full and detailed blog previously, you can read it here:

https://jaradcoldcases.blogspot.com/2021/01/back-in-two-minutes-update.html

In May this year, a report was published by Wales Online and made national by The Daily Mirror. The article talks of some "chilling messages" that have appeared on a bench that bears a plaque in memoriam to Trevaline.

The message that was written on the plaque openly makes an accusation that someone has moved Trevaline Evan's remains, but so far as I am aware Trevaline was never found so if the allegation is true then someone not only knew where she was but was probably the same person responsible for killing her and disposing of the body.

The messages allege that Trevaline's remains were moved from Rhuddlan Golf club and that "justice awaits" the perpetrator. Are we going to see the killer revealed? 

The message written last year read:  "In memory of Trevaline Evans Vanished 16/6/1990. Found - Rhuddlan GC (Golf Club) 14/3/2019 Removed 19/3/2019 RIP". 

There have been two similar messages left, the first was last year some 30 miles from Trevaline's hometown Llangollen in Wales and the more recent message was written on the plaque on a bench on the hillside of Prestatyn close to an abandoned miner's cottage

The more recent message read:

"Justice awaits those responsible for the removal and disposal of Trevaline Evans (in this life or next) from Rhuddlan Golf Club on March 19, 2019, at noon. May the Lord have mercy upon their soul."

Plaque on a bench on Prestatyn Hillside

So why post these messages so long after the disappearance? Why is this happening? Clearly, someone knows something and has held this information for many years. It is a real puzzle as to where Trevaline Evans went and who was behind the disappearance. 

If her remains were somewhere on the golf course, why were they never found? How were they placed there without the ground being disturbed and the greenkeepers alerted? I do understand that there were allegations made that the body was hidden beneath the floorboards of the golf club but this appears to have been false.

North Wales police dug up the bar area some three years ago acting on information from two men, Andrew & Lee Sutton but nothing was found. The brothers made a complaint to the Independent Office for Police Conduct about the way that the case was managed but it was referred back to the local force and dismissed. I have to say I feel these messages on plaques could be connected to the Sutton brothers/

This case is somewhat baffling and I would like to learn more about it, but there is very little to suggest a killer or even a motive for a seemingly well-loved and well-liked antique dealer who ran a curiosity shop. There was no sign of any fraudulent behaviour such as money laundering through the shop and Trevaline's bank account was never touched

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Back In Two Minutes - An Update

 

Okay so here we are back at the case of missing Trevaline Evans, a case which I brought to you in my blog back in October 2020. You can read the original article Here

I am bringing this short update for you as a reader kindly sent me the pictures shown below, for which I am very grateful.

As you will probably know Trevaline Evans disappeared from the small Welsh town of Llangollen, where she owned an antique and collectables shop. The town only has a population of around 3,700, but is a popular tourist town that attracts quite a number of visitors during the summer season.

Trevaline, by all accounts was a popular local lady with a number of friends, many of whom visited her shop a lot for a coffee and a chat. In fact on the day that she vanished it is estimated that she had received between 25 and 30 visitors and customers to her little shop.

This "memorial" bench, for Trevaline Evans has recently been placed on the route to Rhuddlan Golf club

The bench (pictured above) is sighted alongside the Prestatyn to Dyserth walkway, approximately 30 miles from Llangollen.

This plaque was fixed to the bench but has been badly defaced, interestingly other similar benches in memory of other local people have not been damaged hardly at all

According to locals, the plaque was not authorised to be fixed to the council owned bench and the reason for it being placed there has now become something of a puzzle to the walkers that stroll through the area and to the police.

The inscription reads:

"In memory of Trevaline Evans vanished 16/6/1990. Found Rhuddlan GC 14/3/2019, removed 19/3/2019 RIP"

GC thought to stand for Golf Club where it was alleged by two brothers that Trevaline's body had been buried under the bar.

Trevaline left her shop around 12.40 hours, was seen around the area a couple of times, with the last confirmed sighting near her home in Market street at around 1400 hours on June 16th 1990 and has never been seen since. 

Her bank accounts have never been used since and despite the case being treated as a murder enquiry and many hours of police investigation, she has never been located. 

The plaque on the bench suggests that her body or remains were found at Rhuddlan Golf Club in March 2019, but there is certainly no official record of this and the police deny any such finding. 

As far as the police are concerned the case remains active, but unsolved. 

So what has happened to cause this plaque to appear? Why would someone go to the trouble of engraving such an item? Seems very suspicious to me. The writing says "Found", but that seems to be untrue.

Trevaline's husband was arrested on suspicion of her murder at one point, but there were no charges ever brought and he passed away in 2014, aged 83.

Sorry this is only a short post, I will bring you a full article in due course. I just wanted to update you all with this interesting yet confusing news.

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