Over the next year and a half, scores of police officers and scientists attempted to find the evidence which would prove Whiting's guilt.
After one of the biggest murder investigations in Britain, a raft of forensic evidence eventually showed conclusively that Whiting had committed the crime.
The facts of eight-year-old Sarah's disappearance are familiar. On Saturday July Christian Louboutin Super 100mm 1 last year she and her family were visiting her paternal grandparents in West Kingston, a village a few miles east of Whiting's home in Littlehampton on the Sussex coast.
It was an idyllic summer evening and the children, Sarah, her brothers Lee, 13, and Luke, 11, and her five-year-old sister, Charlotte, went to play in a cornfield near their grandparents' home. The adults left the boys in charge.
During their game, Sarah hurt herself and ran back towards her grandparents' home. Lee failed to catch her up and watched helplessly as she ran through a gap in the hedge. By the time he reached the lane she had vanished.
The adults were alerted and at 9pm Sarah's mother, Sara Payne, dialled 999. When police arrived Lee told them he had seen a white van speeding away from the lane. He gave a vivid description Christian Louboutin Outlet of the driver, a scruffy man with "piercing blue eyes" wearing a workman's shirt.
Inspector Jeff Lister, the Worthing sector commander, was the first senior officer on the scene. He knew instantly that the signs were grim and a makeshift incident room was set up in the grandparents' conservatory. Insp Lister phoned Detective Superintendent Alan Ladley, the senior detective on call, at home. Supt Ladley reached the scene at midnight.
A huge search for Sarah began. Over the next 16 days more than 1,300 police officers hunted for her, supported by many members of the public.
Supt Ladley's team knew that with every passing hour the chances of the girl being found alive were becoming slimmer. In three quarters of child abduction cases the victim is dead within hours.
On the day after Sarah's disappearance, Det Insp Paul Williams, whose duties included keeping tabs on local sex offenders, drew up a list of the five most likely to have taken Sarah. Whiting was top Christian Louboutin Balota 150mm Black of the list.
By that evening PC Chris Saunders was at Whiting's flat. He was out. When Saunders returned at 9.30pm, a white Fiat Ducato van was parked outside. Whiting lied, claiming he was at a funfair in Hove at the time of Sarah's disappearance and spent the rest of the evening at home. PC Saunders left but was uneasy and watched the house. "What struck me was his blank expression," PC Saunders said. "He wasn't overly concerned. He didn't show any emotions."
Police watched Whiting go twice to his Christian Louboutin Nutria 120mm van and remove items. When he emerged a third time he got into the van and began to drive away. The officers were faced with a split-second decision - to follow Whiting in the hope he would lead them to Sarah or to stop him? They stopped him and probably prevented Whiting destroying important evidence.
Their suspicions were quickly justified. In the van was a receipt for diesel which Whiting bought at 10pm the night before from a garage at the Buck Barn crossroads, 15 miles north of Littlehampton - nowhere near the funfair.
Whiting had insisted on a receipt, even waiting for the till roll to be changed, though Sarah or her body may have been in the van at the time. His good housekeeping, or meanness, wrecked his alibi.
Other items in the van, including a knife, ropes, masking tape, plastic ties and a bottle of baby oil, did nothing Christian Louboutin Bourge 100mm Suede to dispel the police's suspicions.
When interviewed Whiting chainsmoked. He admitted the van was his but said little else. He refused to explain scratches on his body and arms. But there was no solid evidence and he was released.
Police probed his background and established that he had done building work near Sarah's grandparents' house. He had also walked a dog in the area.
Detectives discovered that by the Sunday he had altered his van, removing panelling and changing the back doors.
But they could not afford to focus only on Whiting. Supt Ladley said
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