Cold-hearted killer acted out his sick fantasies by tying up, raping, and dismembering his victim Catherine Gowing's body was never fully recovered after she disappeared in 2012. Her killer, Clive Sharp, had a chilling criminal past including the rape of a teenage girl and trying to strangle a woman before sexually assaulting her It was an unthinkable series of events that left a rural community united in sick disbelief. On Friday, October 12, 2012, vet Catherine Gowing was last seen leaving Asda in the small town of Queensferry, Flintshire. At the time 37-year-old Catherine's disappearance sparked the largest search to date by North Wales Police. Mobilising 40 specialists over 25 days to search the skies, land, and sea, for weeks the country's eyes were fixed on the area where the "smiling" and energetic vet had lived and worked.