Overview
- Channel 4’s Catching a Killer: Buried Truths shows police searches at a Chelmsford bar and the landfill where Cumali Turhan’s body was recovered.
- Officers documented extensive blood at the Duke Street venue and recovered a human penis and a possible testicle from a bin behind the bar.
- Prosecutors allege Dinler stabbed Turhan in the neck at the Barista bar; he was last seen at Stansted Airport on 19 November 2024 and is believed to be in Turkey.
- Turhan’s body was found 45 days later at the Enovert landfill in Stanway, about 20 miles away, in what reports say may be the first UK police landfill recovery of a body.
- Ciprian Ilie was jailed for seven years in October for assisting an offender and preventing lawful burial, with court testimony describing the victim’s tongue being cut off during the attack.