Missing dog walker

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cossy400

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3,260 posts

191 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11700295/...

What we reckoning?

Seems odd phone left on the bench etc

Dog was dry so not like she went to rescue that and slipped?

Anyone know the area?

BoRED S2upid

20,348 posts

247 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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Odd one this how long till they found the dog? Did it dry off? I’m going with in the river she could wash up miles away.

Terribly sad if so she has 2 small kids.

julian64

14,317 posts

261 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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Unlikely to be a swim as she was in the middle of a conference call at work?

That suggests it was something very sudden

HTP99

23,308 posts

147 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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Hasn't it been reported that the dogs lead and harness had been removed which if true is a bit odd, sure the lead if it was good off lead, but the harness aswell!

BoRED S2upid

20,348 posts

247 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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Slipped, pushed?

Dynion Araf Uchaf

4,685 posts

230 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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it's interesting for sure.

I wasn't too impressed with the thoroughness of the police divers in that video.

My guess is that she won't have gone far from her phone ( who does) so likely she went into the river within site of the phone, possibly to rescue the dog, and as it was about an hour later it was found, plenty of time for that dog to dry off. Being on the phone and still logged in would suggest something sudden, but she's done what most home workers do when there is an 'all hands' employee teams meeting, and listen to it whilst doing something else.

However the river isn't that deep ( although there are pockets that are) and it's very meandering at that point, so to drown she'd have to hit her head, or have some kind of cold shock to the body that rendered her unable to get out of the river. However I don't think she could have floated that far, it meanders far too much to be swept away a decent distance. Likely she is somewhere between where she fell in (assuming near the bench), and the bridge over the river maybe 200m away.

you can get a good look of the river at that point here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhitDc7SJO0

For the tin foil hatters, the area is beside a campsite and some sort of holiday home complex, so plenty of itinerant travellers with access to empty properties who could easily see people walking that area.

bobbo89

5,567 posts

152 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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BoRED S2upid said:
Odd one this how long till they found the dog? Did it dry off? I’m going with in the river she could wash up miles away.

Terribly sad if so she has 2 small kids.
It's horrible to think when someone is still missing but when people disappear so close to water, especially at this time of year, it's very hard to see how else this could turn out...

Yabu

2,067 posts

208 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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Dynion Araf Uchaf said:
it's interesting for sure.

I wasn't too impressed with the thoroughness of the police divers in that video.

My guess is that she won't have gone far from her phone ( who does) so likely she went into the river within site of the phone, possibly to rescue the dog, and as it was about an hour later it was found, plenty of time for that dog to dry off. Being on the phone and still logged in would suggest something sudden, but she's done what most home workers do when there is an 'all hands' employee teams meeting, and listen to it whilst doing something else.

However the river isn't that deep ( although there are pockets that are) and it's very meandering at that point, so to drown she'd have to hit her head, or have some kind of cold shock to the body that rendered her unable to get out of the river. However I don't think she could have floated that far, it meanders far too much to be swept away a decent distance. Likely she is somewhere between where she fell in (assuming near the bench), and the bridge over the river maybe 200m away.

you can get a good look of the river at that point here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhitDc7SJO0

For the tin foil hatters, the area is beside a campsite and some sort of holiday home complex, so plenty of itinerant travellers with access to empty properties who could easily see people walking that area.
Isn’t the river there still tidal? Remember going on a geography field trip many years ago and remember the river being tidal at the point, not sure how much flow would have been coming down the river when she went missing though.

The height of the river also changes quite drastically slightly down the river before it gets to great eccleston there’s whites bridge, looking on google it looks like a stream, but I’ve seen it several feet higher there/flooding the road at times.

Anyone know what the river conditions were like when she went missing?
Looks calm on the news in the days after

If you look on Google maps/ street view standing on the road bridge, looking downstream away from the footbridge….
Then compare to this extreme, same place https://www.newsflare.com/video/405293/the-river-w...

When someone drowns isn’t there a tendency for the body to sink initially, then to float as changes happen in the body? I’ve watched a few bits on YouTube when people have gone missing in the past and unfortunately the bodies aren’t always found straight away




Edited by Yabu on Wednesday 1st February 16:13

Yabu

2,067 posts

208 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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BoRED S2upid said:
Slipped, pushed?
Either are possible but then it’s also possible something else happened to her, DM mentions abandoned house and the owner “happening to be there” also seen other places mention 70 year old well built white man seen walking a dog at the time mentioned etc,
however the simple solution to me at the Moment is that she slipped and fell in, something like she got tanged in the dogs lead whilst going to put it back on whilst too close to the water or was on the conference call and the dog got a little to far away or near the edge of the riverbank, she leaves her phone on the bench thinking she’ll be a few seconds….

Earthdweller

14,406 posts

133 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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Yabu said:
Dynion Araf Uchaf said:
it's interesting for sure.

I wasn't too impressed with the thoroughness of the police divers in that video.

My guess is that she won't have gone far from her phone ( who does) so likely she went into the river within site of the phone, possibly to rescue the dog, and as it was about an hour later it was found, plenty of time for that dog to dry off. Being on the phone and still logged in would suggest something sudden, but she's done what most home workers do when there is an 'all hands' employee teams meeting, and listen to it whilst doing something else.

However the river isn't that deep ( although there are pockets that are) and it's very meandering at that point, so to drown she'd have to hit her head, or have some kind of cold shock to the body that rendered her unable to get out of the river. However I don't think she could have floated that far, it meanders far too much to be swept away a decent distance. Likely she is somewhere between where she fell in (assuming near the bench), and the bridge over the river maybe 200m away.

you can get a good look of the river at that point here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhitDc7SJO0

For the tin foil hatters, the area is beside a campsite and some sort of holiday home complex, so plenty of itinerant travellers with access to empty properties who could easily see people walking that area.
Isn’t the river there still tidal? Remember going on a geography field trip many years ago and remember the river being tidal at the point, not sure how much flow would have been coming down the river when she went missing though.

The height of the river also changes quite drastically slightly down the river before it gets to great eccleston there’s whites bridge, looking on google it looks like a stream, but I’ve seen it several feet higher there/flooding the road at times.

Anyone know what the river conditions were like when she went missing?
Looks calm on the news in the days after

If you look on Google maps/ street view standing on the road bridge, looking downstream away from the footbridge….
Then compare to this extreme, same place https://www.newsflare.com/video/405293/the-river-w...

When someone drowns isn’t there a tendency for the body to sink initially, then to float as changes happen in the body? I’ve watched a few bits on YouTube when people have gone missing in the past and unfortunately the bodies aren’t always found straight away




Edited by Yabu on Wednesday 1st February 16:13
The river there is still tidal and is prone to flooding, there are flood gates there as well iirc

The banks can be deadly and if the river is high quite a fast flow

Obv we don’t know what the river conditions were at the time

This is what it looks like in flood


https://youtu.be/8ZZ7L4ZNBB4


Reports are that the dog was found dry only a few minutes after she disappeared so seems unlikely she went in after the dog


Its Just Adz

15,035 posts

216 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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It's a strange one.

The phone still connected suggests something sudden, as another poster said. But the police are saying no indication that a crime has been committed.

So that leaves the mind thinking she has slipped in and been washed away or trapped under something.

Earthdweller

14,406 posts

133 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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Dynion Araf Uchaf said:
it's interesting for sure.

For the tin foil hatters, the area is beside a campsite and some sort of holiday home complex, so plenty of itinerant travellers with access to empty properties who could easily see people walking that area.
St Michael’s is quite an upmarket little village, the campsites there are the “caravan club” type places with a mix of static and touring sites not really what I’d describe as “itinerants” tbf

Doubt the sites will open at this time of year anyway

Squadrone Rosso

2,920 posts

154 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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My betting was on a stty work call & thought fk it, I’m done.

Probably been building up for a long timefrown

Vasco

17,371 posts

112 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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Squadrone Rosso said:
My betting was on a stty work call & thought fk it, I’m done.

Probably been building up for a long timefrown
A woman, with 2 young children ??? - very unlikely.

m3jappa

6,587 posts

225 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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I have been following this because the lady concerned used to live in my town, i remember her from school, she's about 3yrs older than me but i have loads of friends who know her, i was speaking to one of my neighbours earlier who's class she was in.

I cant stop thinking about it tbh, it must be horrendous for the family frown

Its a really odd situation, i just dont see how she's just done a runner or done anything to herself, by all accounts she's a brilliant mum and brilliant mums don't just leave their kids.


soad

33,460 posts

183 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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She looks/looked beautiful in those photos, happy too. Whatever has happened, it’s a tragedy.

Its Just Adz

15,035 posts

216 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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The local Facebook pages are bringing out the nutters.

Calls for people to be searching that house (not the police searching it, the locals) and the owner must know something.

p4cks

7,016 posts

206 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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It's a warehouse isn't it? And it's already been searched by the Police.

TopTrump

3,313 posts

181 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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Really intrigued by this and praying that they find her alive.

Otispunkmeyer

13,052 posts

162 months

Wednesday 1st February 2023
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Was going to post this as I'd not seen it on here and thought it would have been.

It is odd. They found her phone on a bench still connected to a conference call. And the dog, just wandering free between the river and the bench. On a popular dog walking route.

You'd think if she'd gone in the dog might have gone in after her or if she'd tried to run off, you'd at least tie the dog up so it couldn't follow you.

I do hope she's found but I'm not hopeful frown