Strange disappearances and crimes

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Started this as we’ve veered off topic on the AG thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4450831-New-development-on-missing-Andrew-Gosden-case

A lot of men who disappear after a night out drinking, have probably fell in a river and been washed out to sea. Men falling in rivers after drinking is so common that there is a theory in the US that they are the victims of a serial killer. I think people choosing to disappear from their lives are more common than people think and probably account for at least half of missing person cases. Family members never want to accept that is the reason they are missing but it's common. The Corrie Mckeague case always intrigued me although I now believe he fell asleep in a biffa bin, especially after friends confirmed he had a habit of doing that after a night of drinking. Alcohol makes people do very bizarre things.

I see the Kerry Baby case is in the news today. Two people have been arrested in connection with the case and are being interviewed by Irish police.
A new born baby was stabbed 28 times and his body left in a plastic bag and found on a beach in south Kerry, Ireland in 1984.
In recent years the wee baby's body has been exhumed and DNA was taken.
People in the area gave their DNA voluntarily and the police worked out who those related to the baby might be.

The Annie Mc Carrick ( an American girl living in Dublin who disappeared) case has been upgraded to a murder inquiry, just announced this morning.
She has been missing for 30 years. An only child, her devoted Dad who never stopped searching, died in 2009.
How awful for Annie's mother never getting answers about her beloved only child.
I pray every night for Annie and her family and the family and friends of all those missing.
Annie is one of eight young women who disappeared in Ireland between 1993 and 1998 and despite widespread searches, have never been found.

@LadyEloise1 is that the case possibly linked to the IRA - she'd gone to meet or interview a man?

I don't know. Sorry.
It's just heartbreaking for her mother, her only child missing for so long in another country.

I knew Corrie, through mutual friends at the RAF camp. Very sad what happened to him.

He was struggling a little with his mental health the lads said, but not to any worrying level. I think many of us now believe he crawled into the bin when he got cold, and sadly was taken to landfill.

Very sad case, I still think of him sometimes.

I think about this all the time

Loving this thread, I have been down several rabbit holes since reading it.
Anyone heard of the Timmothy Pitzen disappearance. Very strange and I wonder if he will ever be found.

I just watched the Missing Surrey School Girl about Ruth Wilson. Poor poor girl. I don't blame her for running away and I can't fathom why her dad would not help the investigation. It looks like she was meeting someone so I don't think it was the dad, but why is no one really looking into it properly. So sad.

I’ve been listening to the BBC Sounds investigative podcast, ‘Vishal’. Vishal Mehrotra was an 8-year-old boy who was abducted from Putney, London on the day of the royal wedding, 1981. His body was found the following year on a remote farm in Sussex, there was a school for boys with behavioural problems nearby, where sexual abuse was perpetrated on children by the masters. A very disturbing unsolved case. Vishal’s family believe that Metropolitan Police were negligent in investigating the crime.

@AuntMasha I started listening to the Sounds podcast about poor wee Vishal. It's so sad. It's his brother ( half brother born after he died who has made the programme and I feel you can sense his feeling of loss of the big bro he should have had .) I think someone well connected may have been involved.

Ames Grover he disappeared aged 9 months from his father's car.
Who leaves a child that age for 20 minutes.
Really sad case.

It was Ames Glover and he was 5 months. Heartbreaking case.

Now watching a fascinating documentary about the unsolved murder of Alistair Wilson in 2004...

I thought it was accepted what had happened to the child

Really? What was the accepted outcome? I knew they investigated links to Ghana, but didn’t think there was any evidence of anything there.

That he had been taken to Ghana.

I thought there was nothing found there and DNA tests were negative

Really? What happened to him? That explains why all the posts regarding him were taken off Reddit!

True, there is no proof but in the same way Madeline Mccann is presumed to be dead although there is no proof, the fact his parents were estranged amongst other problems and the fact that the kidnappers would have had to break into the fathers locked car but no trace of any such damage was found etc.

@AuntMasha and @Crustypiepants I have just caught up on the latest episode of Vishal. It’s a heartbreaking story and a great piece of journalism.

I really hope they can find a resolution for his family. I’m sure BBC Sussex are very well aware but there is another school just 2 miles down the road from the school featured that also had abusive paedophiles (now convicted) active at the same time.