On October 1^st 2012, the picturesque Welsh market town of Machynlleth made international headlines when 5 year old April Jones went missing from outside her home. A decade on, this is the extraordinary story of the hunt for the missing child, the investigation into  a local suspect  and the challenges faced by the police in trying to convict  him despite no body ever being found.

Filmed by BAFTA-winning director James Incledon The Disappearance of April Jones is a three -part series made with exclusive cooperation from April Jones’ family, Dyfed-Powys Police and the community of Machynlleth. The hunt for the missing April Jones became the largest police search in British history creating huge challenges for the police, the lawyers and the forensic scientists assigned to the case. Told through the eyes of those who knew April best, investigators who worked on the case, specialist volunteers who searched the remote terrain surrounding the town,  journalists  who arrived in huge numbers  to face a sometimes uneasy local response and lawyers who mounted a challenging murder prosecution, the is a series about an unspeakable crime and a community who had to face the  terrible truth that the murderer was someone who had lived amongst them.