Missing woman

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BBC News - Nicola Bulley: Partner describes perpetual hell over missing mum
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-64450243

Just been reading about this. How awful for her partner and children. Really hope she is found soon

There was also the Facebook post about her previous walk having been spooky.

Sorry, how does that connect to her disappearance?

It was the same route.

It was a reference to the foggy weather and was a post from last year. It's not connected whatsoever

all it means is she walked that route months ago on a foggy day and commented that it seemed spooky.

It doesn't really explain or imply anything other than it seemed eerie in the fog - like almost anywhere.

Unless you're thinking a ghost dunnit?

Her parents didn't seem to imply any MH issues and they obviously were very involved in her life looking after her DC regularly. They didn't seem to agree with police's line of enquiry which looks like why they've spoken out,

A 3rd party is such an obvious early suspicion - woman out alone walking dog in a semi isolated area, phone abandoned still connected to a call, and well loved dog found agitated, loose and unattended, no sign of slip into shallow, calm river nearby and no sign of Nicola. Car still where she left it.

It's boggling the police didn't immediately suspect foul play.

You can only assume they were given information to make them think to the contrary early on (not by her parents obviously) but by whom and how would they have definitively known that foul play didn't occur?

And you would know that how exactly?

It’s pretty obvious from the social media post in question.

I wonder if the subject of the call was stressful at all, future redundancies or targets changing etc.

Re: the route, it was a regular, habitual walk, same, every time. Shared in detail on an ap, public view.

After there had been no news of NB for a couple of days, her disappearance reminded me of a case local to here. Mum of two went out without her purse or phone and seemingly disappeared into thin air. The road she was last seen walking along was near a waterway although I don't recall seeing search and rescue out and about. In that case, the mum returned a fortnight after going missing.

That seem very much a possibili but where would you go? Do you know where she'd been?

Good god are people on here stalking her fb then?

Ultimately the police know more than they are letting on. If they’re saying they don’t believe there to be a third party involved they have good reason for saying so. Either because they have good reason for believing otherwise or because they do think there is a third party involved, suspect who it might be, and are biding their time.

And the parents talking to the tabloids could well jeopardise any enquiry in that direction.

There is definitely more to this. The police wouldn’t have come out so soon and be continuing the enquiry for so long if there wasn’t. Yes they may have come out to look for someone having fallen into the river, but that search wouldn’t still be continuing on such a mass scale at this point if a body hadn’t been found yet.

As for talk of the dog being distressed etc, unless that has come from an official police source I wouldn’t pay any attention to anything that is written in the tabloids, who love nothing more than a juicy story to speculate on.

Good god are people on here stalking her fb then?

Are you new to mssing persons on the internet @MayThe4th ? Looking up social media is totally par for the course

No. It would never occur to me to go stalking someone’s profile on fb and then use that information to speculate about it on the internet.

Another reason why locking down your fb should be recommended though.

Ultimately it’s pure voyeurism, and tbh I’m amazed this level of speculation has been allowed to stand.

MayThe4th · Yesterday 06:11
Re the manager telling the media she was on a teams call at the time, tbh it sounds as if he either wanted to be in the limelight and have his voice heard so to speak, or wanted to paint the picture that she was engaged at the time of her disappearance.

I disagree. Having been a news reporter for a long time, it might help if I explain how news is gathered. The manager will have been called and asked what he knew about her whereabouts at the time she went missing and his answer is straightforward. Answering reporters' questions does not make a person fame-hungry, that is very unfair.

Sometimes when people go missing, they are in a mental health crisis. They may seek refuge with a friend or even just take a train to somewhere far away and stay in a cheap hotel. They can persuade themselves that no-one wants to see them again.

You put way too much trust in the police, seems very bizarre your "I bet they have a secret plan" type thinking and please leave her parents alone their daughter is missing they have every right to speak to the press in this nightmare they are going through. Nothing they have said could possibly put anything in jeopardy.

fair enough, but the media clearly wanted to paint the picture that she was engaging with others at the time of her disappearance, even if we know that she didn’t have her camera on and her mike was muted.

TBH teams is a red herring. I could connect to teams at work, mute my mike, not switch on my camera and then wander off to clean the house while whatever it was was being presented, and nobody would have been any the wiser. It’s why so many companies make it mandatory for employees to be on camera during meetings.

All that is known is that her phone was connected to teams. She wasn’t necessarily even part of that call, and she could just as easily connected to it, dumped her phone so as to place her whereabouts on teams at the time and then gone off to wherever it was she might have been going.

This.

Foul play is the first thing that cones to mind in this case.

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I don't buy the 'she was stressed, had bad news in the call so decided to disappear'

No, v v rare for a mum to leave two young girls who needed picking up from school later, plus she was responsible for her dog, too.

Obviously I haven't read all of the articles published but from the ones I have read I haven't got the impression that anyone is saying she was engaged with others at the time, simply stating the facts that her phone was connected on mute so in fact the opposite - she wasn't actively involved in the meeting so on one would know when she was actually listening in

I don't think any loving dog owner, which she obviously is would leave their dog in a way that would distress them, it goes against all instincts.

There is just now way she would have taken Willow on a walk and just left her there distressed fending for herself if she needed to disappear due to a difficult home life for example.

The fact her parents are saying she was taken could mean that someone else, early on, told the police something e.g. about her mental health that convinced them there was no 3rd party involved but the parents have clearly a different opinion to the person who gave the police this information.

"And you would know that how exactly?"

Because her friends commented on the article in the Mirror who published foggy photos from a year ago. They were upset that the media were twisting things which is ironic that you're here also spreading the "spooky walk" narrative @MayThe4th

Especially when in the next breath you're saying " I wouldn’t pay any attention to anything that is written in the tabloids, who love nothing more than a juicy story to speculate on."

Really? You're slagging off her friends and family and making up rubbish about "jeopardising the investigation" whilst simultaneously posting the exact tabloid nonsense you claim to avoid at all costs. Embarrassing.

100% agree with all of that. Something was said by someone but who?
What has convinced police at the very early stages that she wasn't taken?