Joanna Yeats missing since 17/12/10

[Nando95]

Hi all I am just posting this in order to keep Joannes name in the public domain- This case is very mysterious and so far the police have no real leads although her parents suspect she has been abducted!

The link is below-

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1341106/Distraught-parents-Jo-Yeates-plead-help-finding-missing-architect-daughter.html

Hopefully someone has the information needed to bring Joanna hope safe and well- her parents are distraught!

but then it could be that the parents "thought" that they knew how she lived and what things she would normally do - in that parent sort of way (not trying to be crass or anything - you know what I mean - I hope

4hrs doesn't seem that unreasonable I suppose for an adult,

I don't know - it's very odd.

4 hours isnt that long to wait to report someone missing.

By the time you have rang a few people etc you then may think this is odd. She not returning by midnight probably prompted him to report it.

He rang the parents after the police if my memory serves me right?

Mr Yeates said last night that from the moment he saw his daughter's flat, he believed she had been abducted.

"We had grave concerns based on what was in the flat. We knew she had not gone of her own volition. We came to the conclusion that it was very unlikely that she would have been found alive.

"The state of the flat indicated that she'd been abducted. Jo and Greg were quite untidy and we knew she was planning on tidying up on Saturday.

"On top of that she did not respond to Greg's texts that night and they were both devoted to each other.

"Once we knew she was taken we felt that, because of the cold, she wouldn't have stood a chance."

From here

Yes MummieHunnie he said he called the police and then her parents

Orange, that is so sad! she and Greg were devoted to one another, yet Greg said she often did not respond to texts??

I stand by my deleted post on the first page!

I think its quite telling that the police said there is "nothing to suggest that residents are in danger"
That tells me they know who it is..

I am from Ipswich and when the prostitute murders happened here and before anyone was arrested police were warning all young women not to go out alone in the dark and to be vigilent.
No such warning in Bristol that I'm aware of.

I guess if the flat was untidy it's possible that the bag/keys etc weren't easily spotted.

It often takes me 5-10 minutes (or more ) to find my stuff to go out with when I'm actually looking for it. If you're not looking for it and you're surrounded by a mess you may not actually realise the stuff is there.

In a messy house a set of keys on the worktop with a wallet may not be there clearly to see.

That quote is really strange though - what state was the flat in that made them think that? Indefeasibly messy or really really tidy?

I gather the flat was tidy and that was the thing the parents found odd Baroqin.

I know when I had to report my exH as missing, the Police said it was 'normal' to wait for 6 hrs ie they asked me how long I thought he'd been missing for and asked me to call bk after 6 hrs had elapsed.

that is jsut wrong munniehunnie.
this is real life.
not fiction

Mummiehunnie you're talking like it's a detective story. Calm down.

I don't think it's unusual that the boyfriend waited four hours before reporting her missing.
It was only when she didn't return at midnight that he began looking around the flat that he realised her mobile keys etc were there.

The talking like a detective sounds more like you Orange, from all your posts, maybe you are going for me in fear of someone pointing to you to calm down!

unless the flat was really tidy - in which case I guess they would have been easier to find/see without actually looking.

I am often not home when my bf comes home from work and he can't always get hold of me straight away.
This doesn't somehow prove we are not in love.
I am starting to think it is not the bf but someone she knows/ someone that knew where she lived and that her bf was away for the weekend.

so sad about the violent death

Don't think Avon and Somerset police are doing a great job tbh. On Christmas Day, there were lots of local people who walk their dogs near where she was found and there were zero appeals for information. Seems like this was an opportunity missed. The assumption is that the suspension bridge was the route, but if was by car, just as easy to go Hotwells Road and around via Abbots Leigh road.

And don't understand why after she was reported missing, her parents were allowed to go to the flat? Seems to me that there could have been forensic evidence there.

Haven't heard any police warnings on the local (Bristol) news.

There is something odd about the flat and the possessions.

If the couple are untidy then Joanna probably wouldn't always have put her keys etc in the same place so it wouldn't be obvious straightaway that they were there.,

I put my things down whereever is the easiest each time I enter the house depending on what I'm carrying or wearing and if I disappeared it could take a while to track then down.

The parents comments (if true) about the state of the flat are very telling even if we don't know what the state was. Its like Kate McCann saying about the toy on top of the wardrobe - there must be something very out of place.

but the thing is, the parents didn't go straight to the flat.

The boyfriend had been there for hours before they came to the flat and that's assuming they came as soon as he'd called to say that he'd reported her missing.

So that would imply that the boyfriend came home, didn't touch anything at all in the flat for at least four hours and that it was in the exact state Joanna left it in for the parents to have noticed.

That doesn't make sense. You wouldn't come home and not touch or move anything would you.

He'd found her keys, her bag and her phone so he must have moved things, so the flat wouldn't have still been in the state Joanna left it in.

perhaps it was somethign simple, like the cat

actually that's right wannabe so that would suggest that either the boyfriend wasn't in the flat when he said he was, didn't notice anything odd or did the odd thing himself.

I can see that if you come home from a weekend away and you're tired from a long drive you maybe just sit down in front of the tv and have a drink while you wait so maybe he wouldn't have noticed something out of place.

I don't know how often the parents visited the flat so its difficult to know what they would and wouldn't notice.

Don't forget the parents would have been looking for things that were out of place.
The bf would have come home and sat down not knowing anything was wrong and therefore wouldn't be looking for things that were out of place or unusual.

But the bf is there every day, how likely is it that they would notice something and he wouldn't. They don't live locally and so I don't suppose they would be visiting every day.

I tidy up when people are coming round, if they came when I'd gone missing they'd think things were unusally untidy when actually that would be normal iyswim.