Kyle Vaughan was 24 when he disappeared from his home in Newbridge
Police have made a renewed appeal for information about a missing man on what would have been his 37th birthday. Kyle Vaughan was 24 when he disappeared after leaving his home in in Newbridge, Caerphilly, on December 30, 2012.
Mystery surrounds his whereabouts after his crashed car was found abandoned on a country road, prompting detectives to launch a murder investigation. Kyle left home that morning but there are still no answers as to what happened to him. His silver Peugeot 306 was in a single-vehicle crash on the day of his disappearance.
What followed was one of the biggest police searches Wales has seen with a total of eight people at one point arrested with various alleged offences linked to his disappearance including murder.
On what would be Kyle’s 37th birthday, Detective chief superintendent Andrew Tuck, who is leading the investigation, said: “Our ongoing inquiries into what happened to Kyle before his disappearance is one of our most extensive investigations to date.
“Detectives working in our major incident team continue to investigate any information that the public passes onto us in relation to Kyle, both before and after his last-known sighting.
“We remain in regular contact with Kyle’s family.” Read the biggest stories in Wales first by signing up to our daily newsletter here
He added: “They have never given up hope of finding out what happened to him and we will follow up any lines of inquiry that emerge to answer those questions that his family still has.
“I’m urging members of the public to contact us with any details they have, no matter how minor it may seem to assist our investigation, please come forward.”
Mr Vaughan’s mother Mary died in 2018, having had advanced liver cancer for several years, but never knowing what happened to her son.
The factory worker, known to his friends as Jabbers, was last seen at his home in Newbridge.
Later that same night, his damaged silver Peugeot 306 was found on the A467 between Risca and Crosskeys.
It was not clear whether Mr Vaughan had been driving the vehicle but police said they were confident he would have been able to walk away from the collision.
Over the years police have searched around 40 areas, interviewed more than 200 people, received more than 180 intelligence logs, and taken nearly 900 witness statements.
The missing person inquiry eventually became a murder investigation.
On October 14, 2016, Kyle was officially presumed legally dead by the High Court and his parents received a presumption of death certificate.