The woman was last seen alive on Jan. 28, 2025 on CCTV footage at a supermarket in the town of March in Cambridgeshire, England

A man who admitted to murdering a woman who disappeared in early 2025 reportedly gave police a map to where he buried her remains.

After Karl Hutchings, 48, pleaded guilty in September 2025 to murdering Julie Buckley, 55, he presented police with a map showing where her remains were located, prosecutor Christine Agnew told Cambridge Crown Court on Monday, July 6, according to BBC, ITV and Sky News.

That map led authorities to Buckley’s body, which had been found in 10 pieces and buried in a shallow grave in the village of Wimblington in Cambridgeshire, England, Agnew claimed in court, per the outlets.

Buckley was last seen alive on Jan. 28, 2025on CCTV footage at a supermarket in the town of March in Cambridgeshire, according to BBC. She was reportedly staying with Hutchings at his home in the village of Christchurch at the time of her disappearance.

Concerns for Buckley’s whereabouts began after she failed to attend appointments. According to the Cambridgeshire Constabulary, officers went to Hutchings’ home on Feb. 13 and found “blood around the property,” which was later forensically linked to her.

Hutchings was then arrested later that day.

“It quickly became apparent that something serious had happened to Julie, given the abrupt and complete halt in her communications from 28 January,” Detective Chief Inspector Richard Stott said in a statement in September.

Agnew claimed in court that Buckley was likely murdered between Jan. 29, 2025 and Jan. 30, 2025, as the woman last used her phone on Jan. 29. The following day, Hutchings went to a shop and used her bank card to buy alcohol, per BBC. The attorney also alleged that Hutchings later sold her car for £500 (or roughly $669).

As for how Hutchings killed Buckley, Agnew alleged that the 48-year-old hit Buckley with a hammer over the head, which initially “made her woozy” before hitting her on the head again, “which finished her off.”

Agnew said a post-mortem examination indicated there had been 11 blows to Buckley’s skull, BBC reported.

She claimed that Hutchings revealed he killed the woman “because she had been stealing from him and had tried to convince him he was mad,” per BBC and ITV.

However, the “precise trigger and exact sequence [of what happened] may never be known with any degree of certainty,” Agnew said, per the outlets.

The attorney also said that Hutchings had been released from a psychiatric unit less than three months before the murder, and he pleaded guilty only after being informed that the psychiatrist’s report did not support a claim of diminished responsibility, per the outlets.

His next scheduled hearing is on Thursday, July 9.