Missing Woman Nicola Bulley 3

[ofwarren]

I couldn't see another post so thought I'd create one.

There is a police press conference this afternoon. I can't see a time for this but it's sounding like a routine one.

How bloody inconsiderate of them not to think of that!

Seriously embarrassed for you.

I think you’ll find that was covered by the last two options.

'In solidarity'? What difference does you being able to watch the press conference live make?

I have been in the position of supporting someone whose child went missing in similar circumstances (their body was found 7 weeks later, right beside where they were last seen, even tho the water had been searched over and over - I shared this on the previous thread to try & point out to the armchair investigators that they hadn't a clue regarding how matters like this are resolved).

When you helplessly watch someone wait weeks for some answers, it puts this lurid commentary, most of it nonsensical, in a completely different light.

Agree. This thread is getting ridiculous, Netflix and the like have a lot to answer for. The police are getting lambasted everywhere for saying what is probably the most likely scenario. She was and still is a missing person. They don't cordon areas off for a missing person. Also unless I'm remembering wrong an adult can't be a missing person for 24 hours.

I love this guy, he's proper old school in the best possible way 💖He actually reminds me of Chris Whitty, both experts, upstanding and passionate about their field. I wish our political leaders were more like this.

@EarringsandLipstick I was summarising based on the comments previous. I know why my brain processes things the way it does and I'm comfortable with that. Do you know why you feel compelled to make shitty comments? I've got a list of reasons if you would like....

@EarringsandLipstick but to be clear I won't be answering you on this thread again. As it's not about you.

I watched the press conference on YouTube if anyone did want to catch up. Not for entertainment because you care. I can't believe half the stuff that's being said on here.

I think this too. Maybe she was accosted in the field on her back back to the exit, and possibly murdered and left in the field. The attacker picked up her phone (this is why they have been able to trace her route to the bench) and dog and walked through the gate and left both at the bench.

have the police done a thorough search of the field in case she is there?

They have had cadaver dogs out

I don’t think it’s evil that people are speculating, just human nature.

A horrible and unknown thing has happened to a woman, her children are sat at home scared and hopeful that their mother will come back while many know it’s increasingly unlikely.

It makes people feel fear, anger and impotency. They feel moved to ‘help’. But what can the vast majority of us actually do to help? Absolutely nothing.

So people talk, and puzzle over it. They might look at (an out of date) Google maps and spot that the river is littered with fallen down trees. Or that the caravan site is very close to where she went missing. And talk about other possibilities, because none of us like to think that we could just be gone that quickly because of an accident (we could).

And because people aren’t personally involved with her it does become a bit like one of those programs where you try to ‘solve the mystery’.

You will never stop people speculating and talking about a tragedy with some mystery thrown in.

As long as people aren’t actively attempting to contact the family, or going to the site and disrupting the police investigation, I don’t think what is happening is anything that can be stopped or reasoned with. Just human nature.

i think it would be unlikely that an attacker would leave her phone

The sonar guy, Peter says its possibly a decoy but obviously, the odds are still that she put it down for some reason and then fell into the water.

Do people even think how gratuitously insensitive sentences like this sound? It's not a drama for your entertainment.

I don't think some people understand that it's not a drama.

Netflix and the like have a lot to answer for

yep all those armchair sleuths who think they know more.

Not to mention there’s been no new information since the day she disappeared. So there’s a vacuum that needs filling.

Phone detects location, so leaving the phone is morr.plausible

I don’t think it’s evil that people are speculating, just human nature.

I do agree somewhat but I always think if that was my family/loved one would I want the speculation & intrusion. Same when people film accidents. And unfortunately some people do contact the family.

But people on this thread have been on this woman's Facebook and Strava profiles looking at her personal photos and her run routes That's going a step too far and f*ing weird.

Ok apologies I should have said 'I was also on the school run and did not watch the whole thing'. Would love to know why all your reasons for following the case are more noble than anyone else's. Now let me trip trap on my merry way. 🙄

Yes, ultimately that's what it boils down to and there should be evidence to point the police in the direction of what happened.

I guess the absence of evidence makes the 3rd option (she fell in) the most likely but you'd think there'd be some evidence for that as well. And the phone dropped on the floor? If she fell in unexpectedly you'd expect the phone to go with her. If she purposely went to the edge of the water why leave her phone on the floor when she could have put it in her pocket? But then maybe her phone had a tendancy to slide out of her pocket...there's just too much that depends on her thought process which is impossible for us to know.

I have been following this case from afar and I commented on this thread further up re why this isn’t being treated as a crime etc.

But TBH I’m amazed that all these threads have been left to stand given the levels of speculation and supposition. And even when p people haven’t actively speculated, they’ve been posting pictures of the area, links to companies they think could be in trouble, talking about how the police should have done x or y, and the very fact that this thread has nearly 800 posts after less than 24 hours shows very clearly that this has nothing to do with keeping this case in people’s minds and everything to do with the fact that people are finding it entertaining to constantly come back here to read the latest clews posted by whoever last looked at someone’s fb account.

Are those who claim to know so much looking to change your careers to join the police force? And if not, why not?

She may not be found for weeks, if ever. Just because Peter Falding claims that she would be found immediately doesn’t mean that she would and that if she isn’t she didn’t go into the river. he needs to stop speaking to the press because at this stage he’s contributing to the speculation, and if he really was the expert he claims to be he would know that what he’s saying is pure bullshit. But people are latching on to it because he’s saying what they want to hear. They don’t want to hear that she might never be found. They don’t want to hear that it could take weeks or months. They don’t want to hear that at some point this investigation will have to be scaled back. Because they want to play detective and say “I told you so.” When she isn’t found within hours and it must be true because “Peter falding said that if she wasn’t found today then she didn’t fall in the river.”

Not to mention there’s been no new information since the day she disappeared. So there’s a vacuum that needs filling.

Why does the vacuum need filling though? It's like people are keen for the body to be found so then they have the answer to their mystery & can reassure themselves. They feel safe again & can move on.

The police seem to accept she went into the water and need the dash cam footage more to prove she didn't leave than to prove that she did.

Being near a body of water like this means the most likely outcome is that she ended up in the water.

Why is everyone struggling to comprehend this?

But people on this thread have been on this woman's Facebook and Strava profiles looking at her personal photos and her run routes That's going a step too far and f**ing weird.

I've only just read the end of the thread, that's insane!!!

Yes I want her to be found because I live near there and it's fucking scary.
We've got women here who usually walk the dog who are now getting their husbands to do it, in case there is some crazed nutter out there. I usually take my kids through the countryside for walks on the weekend, but no chance am I doing that till I feel its safe.