Detective Sergeant Tony Trafford was involved in three police investigations involving the residents of Coronation Street. In October 2001, Eve Elliott grew increasingly concerned about the disappearance of her daughter Linda Baldwin who had last been seen at her wedding to Fred Elliott the previous month. Husband Mike Baldwin had thrown her out of the Paisley Bridge Hotel where the ceremony was taking place when he had witnessed her trying to resurrect her affair with his son Mark Redman. Several weeks had passed with no one hearing a word from her and Eve suspected something had happened to her and Mike had something to do with it. She heard that Ashley Peacock had witnessed Mike hitting Linda before Mark stepped in and stopped him and she insisted that he come with her and give a statem