'All I'm seeing is maggots': Cop who investigated grisly murder of mother lured into sex work by her drug addict boyfriend reveals he's haunted by sight of her dismembered body
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The grisly murder of a mother-of-three who was lured into sex work by her boyfriend before he killed her has been laid bare in a documentary which examines the dark underbelly of Hull's drug scene in the 1990s. Natalie Clubb was 25 years old when her boyfriend Darren Adams reported her missing in May 1998. Two months later, in July, a severed arm was discovered at a pumping station which was identified to be the remains of Natalie's body.
![[Darren Adams, then 37, was convicted of Natalie's murder and sentenced to life in prison in 2000]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/15/16/94120299-14284339-image-a-2_1736959435847.jpg)
Nearly three decades later, the gruesome tale has been re-examined in a true crime series about Britain's most notorious murder investigations. The episode, which airs on Friday, details the shocking discovery of Natalie's dismembered arm in a drain at the pumping station that would ultimately lead police officers straight into the city's heroin hell.
![[Former Detective Chief Inspector Paul Davison, who led the investigation into Natalie's murder, recalled how the horrific case never left him - in a new ITV documentary]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/15/16/94127625-14284339-image-a-5_1736959567769.jpg)
The series features former Detective Chief Inspector Paul Davison, who recalled in chilling detail how aspects of Natalie's murder have stayed with him to this day. From the beginning of the investigation, DCI Davison's team were working on circumstantial evidence. All they had to go on was a faded blue tattoo that read 'Chaos' and was scratched on to the lower part of the severed arm.
![[A still from the ITV true crime series 'The Tattoo Clue'. Photo for representation purposes only]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/15/16/94127621-14284339-A_still_from_the_ITV_true_crime_series-a-10_1736959718879.jpg)
It was this blue scrawl that helped detectives identify the body part as belonging to Natalie, who had been reported missing around the same time that Hull was rocked by 'a sequence of tragic murders' of sex workers, and eventually uncover Adams as her killer.
![[The 40-minute episode follows the shocking discovery of a dismembered arm in a drain at a remote pumping station in Hull that would ultimately lead police officers straight into the underbelly of the city's heroin hell]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/15/16/94127617-14284339-image-a-4_1736959555832.jpg)
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