Nicola Bulley documentary about internet ghouls

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BBC documentary tonight examining the damage caused by MCE tiktok empaths and detectives.

That underwater search “expert” didn’t help either, undermining police search teams who are some of the best in the field. “If she’s
in the water i’ll find her” and other stupid statements which fuelled the conspiracy theorists when yep, he couldn’t find her.

there was a case here a while back where someone went in a canal. They knew where he went in, no currents and little water flow, straight sides etc and it still took search and rescue two weeks.

I did think they handled that with dignity allowing him to give it a go despite his attempts to promote his business by saying the police aren’t as great as him.

There were two key bits of info in the documentary that made me wonder why the family were so sure she wasn't in the water, if those two things had been explained to them:

1. Where the dog was found. A police officer early on in the doc said 'If Nicky had left the area, why was the dog found between the bench and river?'; and
2. If a body enters the water, it will sink and it won't resurface for about three weeks and during that time it can be very hard to find. So did they explain those things to the family? And if so, was it just the family's desperate hope that kept them from believing she was in the river (totally understandable, if so)?

Didn't it just. It was quite foul oh here.

Enough with the speculating.

I've just finished watching it. I was away for a night the day she was found. It was so shocking I just went back to my hotel as wanted to watch the news in the hope I'd misread the new flash on my phone. Just a random accident that could happen to anyone while also understanding the strain of the menopause when, and as well as, when that seemed relevant. I hope her family are finding some peace and happiness everyday.

The partner said that once they accepted she had gone into the water, it was 'game over' so I think it was just desperation that if she had been taken, or got lost or wandered off somewhere there was still a chance she was alive and could be found.

@Seasmoke okay. Yeah, that's totally understandable.

The internet is a meeting place for village idiots, and then they just wind each other up into frenzies.

I felt most sorry for Nicola herself watching that documentary - imagine your private medical information being broadcast to everyone that knew you. And not to have any dignity in death to the extent that even her retrieval from the river was filmed..........

I always felt she'd fallen in, we live near a river and people are rarely found if they fall in until it gets near a local weir and the body floats to the surface after several weeks.

@Skifan44 I have wondered if an open verdict wasn't recorded, nor a suicide one, as a kindness to the family tbh. Not an open verdict as that doesn't give the family an answer that is liveable with nor the suicide one as not enough evidence and would set the idiots off like a rocket. I know that's daft as a coroner has to give a verdict purely on fact and not emotion but that is what I thought when the verdict was given.

I don't remember hearing anything at all direct from the family beyond "we are mystified and very worried"

I do recall MNers insisting it was the husband that did her in ( because all men are predators according to MNers), or that she must have been kidnapped. An accident, self-harm or her deliberately leaving her family never seemed to be considered.

Watched this last night. I thought it was so brave of the family to speak.
The investigating officer talked of them finding Nicola and giving her privacy then sitting with her for some time. I found that very moving.

Same. It seemed like a nice touch.
All the internet sleuths... get a life.

Wasn't there a drowning in that area previously, where it took 3 weeks for the body to emerge. That appears to be the sad pattern.

The bored Internet detectives and captain save the days cause so much upset and distress. They are idiotic bullies.