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!

The area where she was found is quite rural. Strange thing about Bristol is that if you drive about 10 minutes out of the city center, you're in a virtual rural area. Failand isn't exactly the country side, but there are no sidewalks and mainly residential except for a couple of pubs, so it's quite unlikely that she (or anyone) would walk there from Clifton.

Seems to me that with the cold weather it would be difficult to determine the exact time of death, so the CCTV footage at Tesco is really the only objective evidence the police have.

There haven't been any appeals for witnesses that I know of, and DH was walking the dogs this morning very close by. I don't know what this means other than the possibility they have suspicions.

I think it's the fact we're all more aware of such cases. As soon as she was announced as missing, most thought she was dead, why would her parents think differently?

Don't forget the news of her disappearance didn't make it on to the national news for several days. I think the first I heard about it, here in Suffolk, was on the BBC news on Wednesday. That suggests to me that the police were hoping she would turn up.

Sadly people disappear every day in this country but very few receive national news coverage.

I think it is highly doubtful that she went for a walk and perished in the cold. The area she was found in is on the other side of the Avon Gorge from Clifton, where her flat is, so she would have had to walk across the Clifton Suspension Bridge. The bridge has CCTV cameras on it and I am sure the police will have already been through the footage to rule it out.

CaveMum, hopefully that means they have CCTV of cars going over it too? Maybe not with reg plates though...I don't know.

Worried40 - I think some poeple just come across as a bit creepy anyway, IRL, whether or not they have any connection to situations like this. I have met a lot of creepy people in other circumstances.

It doesn't necessarily mean they are murderers. But yes I found it hard to watch her father too, for whatever reason.

I suppose I can understand on one level the "relieved" comment. Alive or dead, at least you know where she is. The endless not knowing as in the case of say, Madeleine McCann or Keith Bennett must surely drive you slowly insane.

Yes I know. I hope not too.

I'm sorry but I find the speculation here about this poor woman's death gruesome. Of course we are saddened and (if the post mortem shows she was murdered) rightly horrified but to make such assumptions about her family and friends, based on limited information released by the media, is appalling in my opinion

According to the news report on the BBC site they have asked for anyone who's seen anything suspicious,to come forward.

It's incredibly sad

Speculation isn't doing any good. Having a 'gut feeling' means absolutely fuck all

They never found the killer of Melanie Hall, who disappeared from a nightclub in Bath years ago, and they only just found her body this year. Could be the same person I guess. Always sticks in my mind as I am from Bath originally

Absolutely agree oxo. It's truly horrifying to see people making wild speculation without knowing any of the facts. The police will no doubt already have a good deal of information which may already totally rule out suspicion of certain family members/friends. Just because we, the general public, don't know all the information, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist - and its hugely arrogant of anyone to assume they do know everything.

As for the comments from the father, stating that he thought she was dead, and that it would in a way be a relief to know for certain...well, how can any of us possibly know how we would feel in that horrifying, unthinkable situation? Just try to imagine it was YOUR child, missing, without any means of contact, not having any idea of where they might be, possibly out in freezing conditions, possibly suffering. Imagine thinking that you might not know for years where they were. Imagine thinking you might never know, and go to your grave still not knowing if your child was alive, dead, in pain? I can quite believe that in such horrifying circumstances, one might very well quite quickly feel that its better to know for certain that they are no longer alive, than possibly suffering somewhere.

Nor Melanie Road, Singingcat (though they did find a body)

Speculation is normal and human.

I wouldn't say that gut instinct means 'fuck all'. Far from it.

I knew the second I saw Joe O'Reilly on Irish TV making an appeal for his wife's murderer that he had done it. It was gut feeling. He did it. I knew it.

Violethill - I guess they may also have said they were relieved becuase Madeleine McCann is still quite frest in people's minds, and of course those parents still don't know. It may be that they were thinking of that uncertainty as the alternative.

It is something of a relief for them to know one way or another. Once you know you can start grieving and move onto the next stage. If you don't know, you will always hold hope and that is more painful imo

At least having found her relatively quickly they may be able to look at CCTV in the area to try and work out how she got there.

Must say when this case happened it made me think of Claudia Lawrence and how sad it is for her family that there has been no resolution for them.

worried40, I wondered if the parents had been coached as to what to say or not to say, I remember Kate Mccann said in a documentary that she was told not to cry in an appeal by the police!

I think they will have been advised by criminal profilers about what will help and what won't.

i am with worried 40

Some of these posters ought to know the difference between watching episodes of Cracker and actually being a criminal profiler. This is an awful, awful event but until more information is released people speculating about involvement of Jo's loved ones is only making an appalling situation worse. Yes, perhaps they are involved, but equally perhaps they are not and to pick the bones of her death like this is tawdry. Not to mention the actual killer whoever he/she is is more than likely reading these threads, as most people have pc's and these deranged people usually get some unhealthy enjoyment out of their acts. If the person IS reading we should all use the space to put messages that scare THEM and make them face what they really are....NOTHING. Not giving the sickening pleasure of seeing the full aftermath on the family of having their lives surmised by folk who have never even met them or walked down their street. Lets talk directly to the killer, lets speculate about how best to find them, not take attention off them by haranguing the relatives. Until the police know something concrete we MUST assume for our safety, that he/she is still at large. And FYI the stats say its likely someone CLOSE to the victim, not necessarily a BF or parent, could be a work colleague, COULDN'T it, and many women ARE killed by chancers, opportunist killers. Until we know, let her rest in peace.

we should all use the space to put messages that scare THEM and make them face what they really are....NOTHING.

I wish you luck in scaring them, making them face their crime and believing they are nothing, maid.

I find it also gruesome that people are saying things like 'I have a gut feeling about the father' or 'he looks odd' or 'he said bizarre things' etc.

Apart from the fact that this is a public forum & there's the potential that at some point he- or one of his family members- may see this, it's just unthinkably cruel to assume we know what 'normal' behaviour or 'not odd' behaviour would be under such extreme circumstances.

I don't know, but I imagine if I were in such a horrid situation I might be absolutely paralysed with fear and pain and all sorts of emotions, and might look completely 'odd' or 'bizarre' to outsiders. Not everyone who's grieving looks the same way, some people deal with their grief with silence, with a 'wooden' look about them, with flat speech, with all sorts of things.