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Evidence suggests that Dowler's phone was hacked by employees of News International's since-shuttered tabloid News of the World when she went missing in 2002. Journalists at the paper allegedly intercepted and deleted messages from family members and friends trying to reach Dowler, giving her family false hope that she was still alive and checking her voicemail. Police fear that evidence may have been lost in the process.