A search around the town and the adjacent M62 area was immediately begun. Molseed's body was found three days later, around 8:00a.m. on 8October, in a natural turf shelf 9metres above a remote roadside layby on the trans-Pennine A672 near Rishworth Moor in West Yorkshire. Lying face down in some tall grass, she had been stabbed 12 times in the upper shoulder and back. Some of the wounds were very deep and one had penetrated her heart. There were no defensive wounds, and a time of death could not be calculated. None of her clothing or possessions were disturbed, but the money was missing and someone had ejaculated on her clothing and underwear. Other evidence collected by forensics included foreign fibres, traces of dry wallpaper paste, and 379 other objects in the vicinity.