AIBU to feel it’s wrong to stop searching for Corrie McKeague

[CoolCarrie]

I just heard on the news that the police have decided to stop looking for Corrie McKeague, despite the evidence that he could very well be buried in the land fill state where the bin van left its load. The case will now be a cold case, instead of an active one.
It’s a tragic situation for his family, especially his new baby.
Police budgets apart, Why is it ok to spent millions on certain missing person cases, and not on another?

Agree Jesus and an unpleasant sexual incontinent who treated women dreadfully.

Well, not entirely sure why the kind of person he was should make any difference to whether money is spent or not, but that being said, if the kind of person he was ultimately led to his death then that shouldn’t be dismissed either just because he’s dead. Iyswim.

Why do they keep talking about digging? Wouldn’t they be able to use ground penetrating radar for searches like this? How effective would they be?

Holly Sorry but you don't appear to have read all the facts if you've come up with that may or may not bullet list.

I'm very sorry for his family, I can't imagine the kind of hell they are living in but ultimately everything I've read about his actions, morals and lifestyle seem to suggest an almost inevitability. He made a terrible mistake and paid for it it seems.
Ultimately in the absence of foul play he was/is responsible for his choices and I can't see how they can justify further investigation when dozens of others go missing every year mentally ill or fleeing abuse, suspected murder victims etc and they don't get half the publicity, money or resources spent on them. Especially as sadly it seems there is little chance of him being found now.

Not effective at all. They can be useful to find bones in soil. But given the mix of stuff we send to landfill (which includes plenty of organic material and bones anyway) you’d not be able to discern anything useful.

I thought he was a good guy? Never heard that he was not! What did his mum do at the beginning? Starting to realise that the press have painted a somewhat misleading picture of the poor lad. Hope they do find him. For his parents sake.

I never understood why so much was spent. People go missing, why should public money be spent?

I thought he was a good guy? Never heard that he was not!

It totally depends what paper/story you read. He was either a model serviceman, close to his family and popular with his colleagues or he was an arrogant flash guy, who had no actual mates, used various dating sites despite having a GF and kept a raft of secrets from his family who he wasn't particularly close too... Probably neither version is actually accurate given the press desire to dramatise everything.

I do think the leaked suggestion that there was some sort of D notice attached to his case (and the suggestion that it was hindering the search) seemed to be a way of keeping it high profile for as long as possible.

shatners point me to what you thinkI havent read? Pray do, you font of all knowledge - perhaps you could tell us all where he is and what happened to him? Put his mothers mind at rest?

Nicola Urquart: ""“I think Corrie has ended up in the landfill,” she adds. “I do suspect there’s a third party involved.”

Why bother spending public money on most crimes? Or disappearances why even have a police force or laws or schools a waste of public money right?

Disgraceful comments missing people can be and often ARE victims of crimes who do you think are most murder victims or sex trafficed people?

Have you any idea the size of the landfill site?! It’s massive! Not just the area it covers but the depth of the waste. Looking for anything in it is literally like a needle in a haystack. It would take years to search the whole thing and it is still an active lanfill so it’s constantly being used and waste being dumped/shifted around.

From what I've read this is very much a case of the squeaky wheel getting the oil.

The family were lucky enough to capture the public's eye and a huge facebook group grew up that must have had some influence on the decisions to keep throwing money at the search.

I don't agree that a serviceman is more worthy of looking for especially as it seems he wasn't a very good one but a facebook mafia of those with little critical thinking ability can be very powerful

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-38457221

Describing her son, who is one of three brothers, Mrs Urquhart said: "He's not so much a social butterfly, more a social hand grenade who absolutely lives for the moment.

"He will make choices and decisions that are sometimes reckless that other people might not.

"Would he get into a stranger's car? Yes. Would he go to a stranger's house that he's never met before that he's met on a social dating site? Yes.

"He would put himself at risk because Corrie believed he could handle himself."

Suffolk Police have said they are treating the case as a missing person inquiry but the level of resources has been on par with a murder investigation.

Millions can only be spent if there's active leads to follow. They've run out of those here. Whilst it's overwhelmingly likely that the poor lad is in that landfill site somewhere, it's like finding a needle in a haystack at this point. Too many mistakes were made at the beginning of this case. It took too long for them to start searching there. I feel for his family, regardless of what kind of person Corrie was, his family must be destroyed by this and there's a poor little baby been left to grow up without her dad and will probably never really know what happened to him. It's sad.

It's very sad but I can see why they have stopped.

Holly Grieving mothers have been known to say all sorts of things. This is the mother who withheld information that MAY have been helpful to the Police, despite working for them. This is the mother who went off talking to the newspapers, despite this being against sensible advice which she is well aware of as a Police liaison officer. She has no more idea of a third party involvement than you or I and he "suspicions" have no more weight than you or I unless she has some tangible evidence or notions around it, which she clearly hasn't, or she'd reveal it. She is saying anything to try and keep the Police searching.

The weight of evidence is very very heavily weighted towards him being dead - no sightings since that night, no use of his phone, the internet, using his bank account. Could he have been murdered? It is possible but the weight of evidence does not point to that. Was it suicide? Only his father has said that (and only now) but is is an (unlikely) possibility.

It's hard, but there's a point where you have to draw a line. There are no leads left. And continuing the search draws time and money away from cases where the police may be able to make an impact.

Keith Bennett’s family spend nearly every weekend searching for him.

Cool But not the Police or public money being spent, rightly or wrongly. If we - publicly - have not been doing anything for that case for decades, it clearly is reasonable to draw a line on the Corrie McKeague affair after this length of time.

Too many mistakes were made at the beginning of this case. It took too long for them to start searching there.

Not necessarily the fault of the police though - they were given the wrong information about the weight of the bin being emptied which led them to rule out the bin lorry.

Quite, Curtain, not to mention the family and "girlfriend" kept the stuff about him being on swingers sites and even a gay hook up app quiet from the police until someone else brought it out.

I don't know why the police don't just come straight to Mumsnet, to be honest. All the background information people on here see to have........

All that sadly is left to do in this case is to find a body and that is why it has been sent to be a cold case. All that means is that it will stay that way unless there is an active lead. Lots of cases are like this

Surely the landfill site generates a lot of warmth and there is a lot of moisture, so any corpse buried in in will decompose exceptionally quickly, even the skeleton?.