Dog walker missing in Lancashire

[common sense]

Strange one this. She went missing last Friday, 27th, on a river tow path around 9.15 am whilst still watching, but not actively participating in, a works conference call. Her muted phone and dog collar and harness were found on a seat and dog loose nearby. Forensic tests on dog's fur show that he never entered the river and was bone dry when found but in an antagonistic, agitated state, only interacting with family. What did he witness? Police know more as they don't think it's a crime. Unless the dog ran towards the River Wye and she went after him and fell down the bank. It's a tidal river and would be very cold in January.

Wonder what makes them think she wasn't attacked? Surely that should be their first assumption. Marks on the bank down to the river maybe, suggesting she fell in? Now they want any dash cam footage which may show her in the area around that time or leaving the area.

[Stooo]

She's obviously gone into the drink, RIP. The question is how?

The police scientific investigations people will be earning their dinner 24 hours a day for a while yet, analysing thousands of mud impressions in a fairly large area to find out when a certain footprint got a bit deeper or more indented after a push or a sprint...

[common sense]

According to locals on Websleuths, her partner and the head of the investigation, with specialist police dog trainers and a respected civilian dog behaviourist, have taken her spaniel Willow back to the scene today off lead, filming, for first time in 9 days, to see what she did. She went straight to the seat then river bank, almost in the water and barked fiercely! I think that answers everything but family still insisting she was abducted. Clinging to hope really as they know if she's in the water she's certainly dead now. She could be downstream, snagged on reeds or an obstruction or even in the sea by now.

[Gabby]

People need to stop playing detective and making assumptions … leave it to the experts! …. some vile posts on social media, shame on them all!

[common sense]

People need to stop playing detective and making assumptions … leave it to the experts! …. some vile posts on social media, shame on them all!

Yes, have read some, Twitter especially, awful. Very strict on WS and you can't accuse anyone. The police will most likely be right and the dog, whilst she can't talk, has indicated the same. Hopefully the body will surface but experts warn that it may never do. Some do, some don't.

[Cactus Jack]

Also here viewtopic.php?f=30&t=90019

I can see what Stoo was talking about due to the noise on social media.

Some speculation is always inevitable but trolling a family in very obvious grief is horrendous.

[.SF.]

She's obviously gone into the drink, RIP. The question is how?

I have to admit I haven't read much about this case so I might have missed something, but why is it obvious she went into the river?

[Gabby]

She's obviously gone into the drink, RIP. The question is how?

I have to admit I haven't read much about this case so I might have missed something, but why is it obvious she went into the river?

It isn’t obvious…

[Holly]

I hope she will be found one way or the other, so all those suspicions can be put to rest.
It must be so awful for the family not knowing what happened. I won't even try to comprehend.

[common sense]

So the owner of the private company which is searching now says that he doesn't think she's in the river. He says she wouldn't have moved very far in the first few hours and the police divers were in there within 2 hours and would have found her.
Him and his men have been searching almost 2 days now and found nothing, no clothing or any trace of her. They're usually very successful and find bodies very quickly. So the mystery deepens. If she didn't go in there, where is she? The husband's on CCTV working at home at the time she vanished. They took it in turns to drop the two girls, 9 and 6,at school then take Willow a walk.

[common sense]

She's obviously gone into the drink, RIP. The question is how?

I have to admit I haven't read much about this case so I might have missed something, but why is it obvious she went into the river?

It isn’t obvious…

The police only think she went in because they've checked CCTV, dashcam and found no sign of her leaving the area. Several gates were padlocked. Apart from that they don't know. There's a 10 min blindspot where a camera wasn't working.
Bit like the airman, Corrie, who vanished 5 years ago. Police think he slept in a shop rubbish bin as he'd done this before and was crushed in it. No trace found at landfill though despite massive searches costing millions and some think he's still alive. His phone pinged in the direction of where the Biffa bin lorry would go and the weight of the contents was over what it should have been.

I'm a big true crime fan.

[common sense]

I hope she will be found one way or the other, so all those suspicions can be put to rest.
It must be so awful for the family not knowing what happened. I won't even try to comprehend.

Yes, those two poor girls . Surely better to have bad news than not to ever know, which may happen in fact.

[Grafenwalder]

All extremely odd as it appears Nicola Bulley literally vanished into thin air. That the area seems to be fairly public with dog walkers etc, some of whom know her, makes it all the more odd. Also the river doesn't look particularly dangerous to me either. It's fairly calm and judging from the police divers, not very deep.

[common sense]

So the specialist guy's team is packing up and leaving and he says she's not in the river now. Cops still say she WAS and they have "sensitive information" that he's not aware of, something personal about her it seems that they won't disclose just yet. Wonder if she went in voluntarily then and texted someone beforehand, or left a note.. Puzzling. She could be out at sea now.

[Stooo]

All extremely odd as it appears Nicola Bulley literally vanished into thin air. That the area seems to be fairly public with dog walkers etc, some of whom know her, makes it all the more odd. Also the river doesn't look particularly dangerous to me either. It's fairly calm and judging from the police divers, not very deep.

All open water is dangerous, six inches of water can sweep you off of your feet. Add in the temperature at the time and it's instant cold shock with a panicked underwater breath followed closely by a heart attack due to the massive heat loss from the now freezing waterlogged organs that surround it. Even a gentle current will easily move a submerged mass (her remains and her clothes would not be buoyant after a few minutes and they would float a few feet or inches underwater. After a few hours and way before any decomposition occurs, her remains are in the tidal part of the river and near the sea.

She's with the crabs now