Jack Frost's Case File Trivia Quiz

Answer: Missing child

'Care and Protection' was first aired in 1992. We find Jack caring for Mary, his terminally ill wife. Whilst Jack was working Mary was looked after by a nurse, Shirley Fisher, who later took a more personal role in Jack's life. The investigation concerned the disappearance of a young girl, Tracy Uphill, but while searching the woods a severed arm was discovered chained to a strongbox.

Investigations led Jack to an armed robbery that took place 30 years earlier. Jack found a survivor of the robbery, but that man was soon found dead, killed by the same weapon that was used in the initial crime.

The missing girl eventually turned up, alive, at Denton hospital.

Answer: Yes

When the body of Ben Cornish was found lying in a pool of water in a public toilet the police doctor called to the scene didn't conduct a full examination because he had been called away from a function and was dressed in his best dinner suit. Frost insisted that the doctor examine the body, and the doctor carried out a very cursory examination and came to the conclusion that foul play was not the cause.

A post mortem showed a very different result however. Ben Cornish had suffered extensive bruising to the body which could only have been the result of physical violence. During the investigation Frost tried to renew a relationship with a woman that he had an affair with before his wife's illness.

The investigation continued and concluded with the arrest of Ben Cornish's brother in law for his death.

Answer: Richard Martin

Tricia Martin, an 8 year old girl, went missing from outside her home whilst her mother was out shopping and her father was inside the house. A search was made of nearby Benningfield Woods and both her body and Billy Conrad were found. Billy had cuts and bruises and refused to explain how he got them.

This led the police to suspect he had something to do with the girls death. Jack's superiors, and the local community were convinced that he killed her, but Jack himself wasn't so sure. Further investigations led him to believe that the girls father, Richard Martin, was responsible. Martin eventually confessed that he and his daughter had had an argument and she slipped on the garage floor and died as a result.

He panicked and took her body to the woods to conceal it.

Answer: Fox hunt

Nick Walder should have appeared in court the day he died. Instead he went to an anti hunt protest near to Denton Lacey. He was found, lying in the undergrowth, after being hit on the back of the head with a lump of wood. Shortly afterwards another body, that of a known anti hunt campaigner, was found in the woods after being shot with a shotgun. Jack's investigations took him into contact with the local squire and Master of Foxhounds. Superintendent Mullet was worried that Jack may upset the local gentry.

Answer: Appendix Man

The Appendix Man was so named because he had walked out of hospital shortly before he was due to undergo surgery and was later found drowned in a local river. He was initially thought to be a local head-teacher, one Colin Drysdale, but was later found not to be.

At the time of the investigation his identity is never discovered. It will be at least another year, and a connection to another case, before his true identity is discovered.

Answer: Cricket

A woman walked across a town square removing her clothes before she threw herself, naked, from the top of a multi story car park in full public view. Jack's investigation led him into the world of 'swinging'. He didn't make any inroads into the investigation until a local gigolo was murdered and he then found out about the world of male escorts and their lonely female clients. Mullet, as ever, had his own priorities, ie the cricket club.

Answer: Hazel Wallace

Frost was on compassionate leave, following the death of DS Clive Barnard, when newly promoted DS Hazel Wallace returned to Denton. Wallace was assigned to an apparent suicide but had doubts. A set of fingerprints were found at the scene which belonged to a dead man, the 'Appendix Man', who had been found in the river a year before. Frost was called back from leave to investigate and soon linked the two deaths to a seven year old art theft.

Answer: At a quarry

The attack took place at Denton Quarry. The young man, Laurence Burrell, was convinced it was carried out by extra terrestrials. The attackers turned out to have used 4X4 vehicles with large lights mounted on the front, and black clothes and crash helmets. To the autistic boy they seemed like aliens.

At the same time Jack was investigating a series of burglaries, along with Det Sgt. Hazel Wallace that seem to be linked to deliveries from a local take away.

Answer: Smuggling pornography

The car thief was a con man that frequented golf clubs and country house hotels posing as various people. He strook up relationships with lonely women and left shortly afterwards after having stolen someone else's car and without paying his bills. Things got complicated when the body of a local drugs dealer was found dead in the boot of one of his abandoned vehicles.

He 'befriended' the Dutch undercover officer and they agreed to go to Holland to play golf. On his return he was picked up in the car he stole with a suitcase full of illegal pornography bought on the trip.

Answer: Meat processing plant

The environmental health officer was accused by the plant's management of harassment because of the number of times he visited to make inspections. One night, after entering illegally, he went missing. His wife reported his disappearance to Denton police station but they showed little interest initially. This changed when a dismembered arm is discovered in Hull.