Police investigating the disappearance of a teenage girl 20 years ago yesterday began searching a former allotment for her body.
Donna Keogh, 17, vanished in Middlesbrough in April 1998, and police believe she was murdered.
They recently launched a fresh investigation into her case and the murders of two other young women in the area, which they think could be linked.
![Police recently launched a fresh investigation into her case](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/06/13/15/4D2FFFC800000578-5839841-image-m-59_1528901801276.jpg)
Cleveland police are searching for information which could help track down the killer of 17-year-old Donna Marie Keogh from Middlesbrough who vanished in April 1998. Police recently launched a fresh investigation into her case
![Donna was born and grew up in Middlesborough,](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/06/18/23/4D2FFF6100000578-5858629-image-a-1_1529362660047.jpg)
![She wanted to join the military](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/06/13/16/4D2FFF7200000578-5839841-image-a-65_1528902882820.jpg)
Donna was born and grew up in Middlesbrough. She worked in a care home and wanted to join the military
Officers began the job of clearing a patch of wasteland at Troon Close, Middlesbrough, in the hunt for the care home worker’s body.
Detectives said a review of the old inquiry had identified the site, along with several others, as a place of interest.
At the time Donna vanished, the land was being used as allotments. She was last seen two miles away.
![Donna lived with her cousins at King House Central Mews in Middlesbrough town centre, although she was known to frequent other parts of the town](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/06/13/16/4D315B2200000578-5839841-image-a-86_1528904563849.jpg)
Donna lived with her cousins at King House Central Mews in Middlesbrough town centre, although she was known to frequent other parts of the town
![Detective Chief Superintendent Jon Green of Cleveland Police said the 'painstaking' search was expected to take five days.](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/06/13/16/4D2FFF7A00000578-5839841-image-m-72_1528903164703.jpg)
![DCS Green added it was one of a number of sites likely to be searched.](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/06/13/16/4D2FFFD400000578-5839841-image-a-73_1528903171974.jpg)
Detective Chief Superintendent Jon Green of Cleveland Police said the ‘painstaking’ search was expected to take five days. He said it was one of a number of sites likely to be searched, but added: ‘Yes, there’s a possibility we might find Donna.’
Detective Chief Superintendent Jon Green of Cleveland Police said the ‘painstaking’ search was expected to take five days.
He said it was one of a number of sites likely to be searched, but added: ‘Yes, there’s a possibility we might find Donna.’
Last year Cleveland Police secured £3.77million of funding from the Home Office for a Historic Investigations Unit to launch a fresh inquiry into Donna’s unsolved murder and those of Vicky Glass, 21, and Rachel Wilson, 19, who vanished in 2000 and 2002 respectively.
Unlike Donna, both their bodies were later found.
All three came from the Middlesbrough area, but as yet there is no specific evidence to link their murders. A 59-year-old man has been on police bail for four years in connection with Miss Wilson’s death.
![At the time of her disappearance, Donna was living in this estate in central Middlesbrough](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/06/13/16/4D2FFFAF00000578-5839841-image-a-68_1528903041686.jpg)
At the time of her disappearance, Donna was living in this estate in central Middlesbrough