Sunderland Police's Investigation of George Oldfield

Zacharisson didn't want to make Oldfield or West Yorkshire police seem like fools. He ended up deciding to write a report for his bosses and leave it up to them to decide what to do. Sunderland police had by knee-ar searched around 5000 homes in the area where they believed the dialect on the tape came from. Around 130,000 names had been checked on birth registers and school registers. With all these names, they ran further checks to see any of those men had later moved to Yorkshire. And all that work had been for nothing. It was based on a hoax.