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!

Does boyfriend have an alibi - it's not clear from what I've read

According to BBC news the police have said that from CCTV they know she bought a pizza in Tesco's and the dad said she quite often didn't answer her phone so it was feasible that nobody realised she was missing.
Sorry I don't know how to do links but it was on the BBC website.

As far as I know, he went to his half-brother's in Sheffield for the weekend, but it is not being confirmed as to what day/time he arrived.

I feel so sorry for her family. It's completely unrelated but when I was a teenager aged 15-16 I lived in a remote area and I used to love walking down this lonely road with no houses, other people etc. My mum would tell me not to walk there by myself for fear of abduction etc. But of course being a teenager I thought I knew better. Thankfully I have more sense now.

I would imagine they are probably investigating the boyfriend, just as a matter of course.

its terribly sad - i really hope she turns up safe and well, with a locked herself out going to put the box in the bin story, although how you explain away being missing for week, i'm not sure.

It is very sad. Her poor parents. And the boyfriend if he had nothing to do with it.

It does seem very similar to the Claudia Lawrence case.

Heartbreaking what humans can do to one another.

Missing Joanna, in my opinion I think someone asked her to get a Pizza for them, she brought it home, left her keys and phone on a table and then took the Pizza to the person who asked her to get it for them, they must live close by for Joanna to have left her keys and phone behind.

It is a strange case.

Perhaps Waitrose didnt have what she wanted so she went to Tesco as well?

I thought I heard the news say that the receipt for the pizza was also found at her flat.

With regard to the bf - We dont know when he came home. If it was the evening time then perhaps he came home from his weekend away and just jumped in the bath etc. Perhaps because all her stuff was their (keys etc) he just assumed she had popped into neighbours or something which would then explain why it was midnightish he reported her missing - I have only read that on here.

Its very sad for her family though. I sincerely hope they ge som kind of breakthrough as to her whereabouts soon.

but going out without keys? That would only work if the lock was a certain type - for instance, my front door is such that I need a key to open it, so I couldn't leave my keys at home. And even if you were just popping out, most people wouldn't do so and leave the front door unlocked, would they?

To me it makes more sense that she didn't go out, but that someone came to the flat, and took her out, iyswim.

And I do think that far too much is being made of the pizza - maybe she bought it for a friend/homeless charity/maybe she dropped it on the way home.

This is a truly sad story and I hope some breakthrough comes soon for her family.

One of my colleagues this morning has another theory which I hadn't thought about.

He says that to walk from the pub at 8pm ish up to the Tesco/Waitrose she then went to would take her longer to complete on foot than the timeline allows. Therefore he thinks that maybe she got a taxi from the pub to the shops ? Maybe taxi driver took a liking to her etc and followed her about and back home and then knocked on her door claiming she had left something in taxi etc, of course she would recognise him from earlier and open door to me etc. Just a theory but you never know.

The simplest explanation is usually the accurate one. I suspect the fact that the pizza has gone is something of a red-herring. I think that everything points to something happening to her once she had returned home. The pizza may have shown evidence of a struggle and has therefore been disposed of to cover the perpetrator's tracks.

I hope the family get some answers soon. It must be agonising.

Very sad whatever the reason for her disappearance.My heart goes out to her poor parents.

I just hope her family aren't reading this thread, because the prurient speculation is really quite sick. I wonder how some of the people writing these posts would feel if it were their daughter, and other people saw fit to publicly write about their halfbaked homespun theories?

By all means raise awareness of someone who is missing. But do we really need the rest?

Weird case.

Very very unlikely she was just snatched off the street though.

"We aren't being told everything obviously, and why should we be?"

Exactly.

Quite apart from the fact that it must be incredibly distressing for the family to read the general public's theories, it always strikes me as incredibly arrogant of people to assume that they know enough to invent a theory in the first place.

Yes, obviously family and friends will be closely questioned in the search for evidence about what has happened. Yes, there will no doubt be certain facts which haven't been divulged to the general public. That's totally normal in an investigation. There may well be facts known already to the police and family which totally blow some of these halfbaked theories out of the water.

There is everything to be gained by raising the profile of Joanna Yeates; absolutely nothing to be gained by any of us speculating

I don't think its odd she went in waitrose then tescos, I often pop in one shop after another because nothing in the first shop took my fancy.

marking my spot to raise awareness. i was in tears watching her parents on the news yesterday, i have never seen grief like it.

i hope to god she is safe and well x

I'm going to be shot down for saying this but do you not think that the publicity in this case has something to do with the fact she is a middle classed professional and it happened in Clifton - the most affluent part of Bristol?

My thoughts go out to all relatives who find themselves in this terrible situation. It's just not as newsworthy when it happens to a working class person in a rough council estate.

no I don't

I think it's because it's so unusual and there have v few leads (and they seem to have pretty much concluded early on that it was unlikely to be a suicide)

her poor family. Yes made me think of poor Claudia Lawrence and her family too.

amijee - I couldn't disagree more. I didn't even know anything about this disappearance until I opened this thread yesterday.

Claudia Lawrence was a normal working class girl but that was all over the news and very high profile, and still is.

Why should class have to come into it anyway.

It's in the news because whilst violence - and violence against women in particular is not rare, totally disappearing in to thin air is rare.