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Joanna Yeats missing since 17/12/10

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Nando95 · 23/12/2010 14:06

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!

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MummieHunnie · 26/12/2010 14:43

'suspicious circumstances' is how the police are referring to her death now! The boyfriend has been very quiet in the news the past few days.

MummieHunnie · 26/12/2010 14:46

Ch Supt Jon Stratford, of Avon and Somerset Police, said: "Our heartfelt condolences go out to Joanna's family for their loss.

"We have not stopped working hard throughout the Christmas period to find their daughter after she was reported missing...

Nothing about the boyfriend, not what you would expect if they thought the boyfriend to be innocent.

PercyPigPie · 26/12/2010 14:50

Go steady on the boyfriend thing ... if you search 'Joanna Yeats' boyfriend' this is the first thing that comes up in google.

MummieHunnie · 26/12/2010 14:55

Yahoo answers is much higher up, there are some interesting comments!

wannaBe · 26/12/2010 14:57

I don't think the boyfriend's silence is necessarily relevant, his gf is dead, I don't see why he should be seen to be saying anything, he owes the public nothing.

Dh also suggested maybe she'd maybe gone or a walk and fallen victim to the elements, considering she was fully clothed.

SlartyBartFast · 26/12/2010 15:00

i noted in the Guardian he was quoted, before x mas as saying "she was my future"..
was?
perhaps a slip of the tongue. perhaps not

wannaBe · 26/12/2010 15:13

to be fair, I think that when a young woman goes missing, seemingly without a trace, they are almost certainly dead. The parents have already come out and said that they believed she was dead, the boyfriend possibly did as well.

And let's bear in mind that the boyfriend has an alibi.

And the police wouldn't be making leading statements that implied they didn't think the boyfriend was innocent - he is still free, could essentially disappear at any time - they're not likely to suggest in the press that they think him to be guilty before they've even had a chance to arrest him now are they. And given that Joanna has been missing for over a week, if they genuinely thought the boyfriend to be guilty they could have arrested him by now - it's not uncommon for someone to be arrested without there being a body.

SlartyBartFast · 26/12/2010 15:16

i can't really watch these appeals without suspecting the people who make the appeal of having some part in it.
Xmas Blush but i am sure i am not alone.

K12Mom · 26/12/2010 15:18

If she was just "going for a walk" she would have taken her keys with her. Everything (keys, phone, etc.) was left in her flat.

wannaBe · 26/12/2010 15:23

No I think it's quite common to think like that slarty.

But the family made an appeal too. And yet if someone came out and suggested that maybe one of them was responsible they would be shot down.

Yet it's ok to speculate about the boyfriend's involvement..

Don't get me wrong, in most of these cases it is someone who is known to the deceased that is responsible, and who knows maybe the boyfriend did it. But reality is that we just don't know.

I think there's something very, very odd about this case, because she either went out without her keys, or someone came to the flat and she went out without her keys which would imply it was someone who had a key. the boyfriend? member of her family? Why is it ok to suggest that it was the boyfriend, but would not be ok to suggest it could have been a member of the family, for instance?

SlartyBartFast · 26/12/2010 15:27

and the parents talk about how they gave her the space she rquired, as did the boyfriend... they saw each other durign the week only, i think i read.
so in this space there may well be people we dont know about, who were known to her, who she shared a pizza with or went out with. for eg.

MollieO · 26/12/2010 15:40

The oddest thing they said on the news yesterday is her coat was left at the flat. Seems odd to go out in this weather without a coat. I assume therefore that someone collected her from the flat by car. Very odd and so so sad for her family. It is easy to suspect the boyfriend but I'm afraid his sobbing at the press conference does make me wonder. He seemed more upset than her parents, who were very upset indeed.

tomorrowsanotherday · 26/12/2010 15:41

I appreciate speculation isn't going to help but people will talk simply because they care.
The fact is that you are far more likely to be killed by someone you know than a stranger.
Therefore it is only usual to look at the boyfriend and ask questions.
Equally it could have been a friend or acquaintance who knew she was going home to an empty flat Sad
The fact that her keys and jacket were in the flat suggests it could have been somebody she knows that had a key or that she didn't go home at all and they were planted there to make it look like she did.

MollieO · 26/12/2010 15:42

Of course it should be able for the boyfriend to confirm his alibi re times of phone calls he made and where from (ie at his half brother's in Sheffield).

tomorrowsanotherday · 26/12/2010 15:50

I really hope it isn't the boyfriend and that this can be eliminated in the next few days once the post mortem has been carried out.
But I do think it was someone she knows sadly

wannaBe · 26/12/2010 16:00

see I'm not convinced she was murdered.

She'd apparently been for a drink before she was supposed to have gone home, what if she'd had too much to drink and went out for a walk - alcohol makes people do strange things. Then had fallen over and frozen to death - it wouldn't take long in this weather.

When bodies are found there is usually some indication of how the person died even before the post mortum - this time nothing.

And she was fully clothed which, if we're honest, is rare when a body is found and the person has been murdered.

MollieO · 26/12/2010 16:00

If I was going for a walk on my own I would take my coat, keys and phone. The boyfriend said that the cat hadn't been fed as if to suggest that she went missing earlier in the weekend than later. There is nothing to suggest that she didn't go missing after he arrived home on the Sunday evening. He reported her missing midnight on the Sunday so time enough unfortunately.

LetThereBeRock · 26/12/2010 16:22

'When bodies are found there is usually some indication of how the person died even before the post mortem - this time nothing.'

How do we know that there was no such indication? I wouldn't expect the police to release those details until after a post mortem was carried out.

LetThereBeRock · 26/12/2010 16:24

And didn't a friend who'd talked to her,on her mobile, on her way home, say that she didn't sound drunk?

FlightoftheCrimbleTree · 26/12/2010 16:24

Wannabe, from the pictures (which I don't know if anyone has described to you already) she didn't look at all drunk or without all her wits about her, in the CCTV footage.

So it doesn't look as though she was in the kind of state where you would wander off into the snow without your keys. Anyone capable of using a Tesco self service checkout has got to be pretty with it.

Slarty, if that can be considered a slip of the tongue then so indeed could her father's 'inevitable' comment in the appeal he made. I don't think we can take these things too seriously.

People under pressure do make mistakes - it's only after there is a conclusion drawn that we can look back and say 'that person was clearly guilty' iyswim.

I think her boyfriend looks entirely genuine fwiw - but it isn't worth much, really.

worried40 · 26/12/2010 16:25

I wondered if it was her DAD. I was getting a very creepy feeling from her dad. I'm sorry, it's 'off' and it's unfounded. It was just my gut.

FlightoftheCrimbleTree · 26/12/2010 16:29

I don't think we ought to speculate - this could be really upsetting for her family to read. But I understand what you mean.

LetThereBeRock · 26/12/2010 16:29

If you Google murder and body fully clothed you can find dozens of references to murder victims who were fully clothed when they were found,so it's not that uncommon.

FlightoftheCrimbleTree · 26/12/2010 16:32

FWIW if there is any hint of suspicion in the minds of us lot, regarding any of them, we can be fairly sure that those closer to the situation have the same instinct/impression/whatever it is, and will be doing everything they can to make sure it's followed up.

Don't worry.

Pantofino · 26/12/2010 16:35

I thought it was little strange that the parents publically stated that they thought she was dead. It would not be something that I would say out loud. I would be still frantically hoping for a positive outcome. But then who knows how you would feel in this situation....Sad for them!

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