A Failing Marriage and a Search for Identity Is This What Led Jennifer Pope Into Such Danger ; with Her Son Set to Leave Home, This British Nurse Finally Felt Able to Embark Upon the Adventure of a Lifetime but Then She Disappeared. Now We Retrace Her Final Steps . . .

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Jennifer Pope hauled her backpack on to her shoulders, unlatched the wrought iron gates and stepped out on to the quiet street. It was only 8.15am, but already the tiny town of Banos was bathed in a sunshine that by midday would become searing heat.

Most houses, simple bungalows, still had their windows shuttered against the night. Dogs dozed in the street.

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A Failing Marriage and a Search for Identity Is This What Led Jennifer Pope Into Such Danger ; with Her Son Set to Leave Home, This British Nurse Finally Felt Able to Embark Upon the Adventure of a Lifetime but Then She Disappeared. Now We Retrace Her Final Steps . . .

Only a scattering of neatly dressed schoolchildren and early morning workers disturbed the tranquillity.

Yet instead of making the ten-minute walk to the bus station, the 50-year-old nurse and mother somehow disappeared, to the despair of her husband David and son Stefan who, back in Britain, are now desperate for news.

They last received an email from her on January 9, the night before she went missing, which said she was trying to bring forward her February 20 fl...

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