Nicola Bulley, what does everybody think?

[Aethelwulf]

It was to be expected that a body would turn up somewhere, assuming this is Nicola Bulley.
How thorough was this 'thorough' police river search after all, that it was two walkers who actually came across the body?

There is a water level gauge on the weir. There was a small peak yesterday (rise and fall of 80 cm) in response to a bit of rain. Might explain why she was found today.

[Dickere]

Didn't the river search expert say she's not there or else we'd have found her, I'll stake my reputation on it.

[spyglass]

Sadly drowning in the river was the only plausible conclusion as far as I was concerned.
The Police have been given alot unnecessary criticism these last fee weeks as far as I'm concerned.

[Abby Normal]

It was to be expected that a body would turn up somewhere, assuming this is Nicola Bulley.
How thorough was this 'thorough' police river search after all, that it was two walkers who actually came across the body?

hi wick
well i think drowned bodies can sink and then resurface later, and a mile away isnt in tje immediate area either.

[Abby Normal]

ugg.so sad. although it looks like suicide after all, hopefully there will be closure in terms of suicide or accident. but i guess foul play cant be ruled out either at this point.

[Wickerman]

It was to be expected that a body would turn up somewhere, assuming this is Nicola Bulley.
How thorough was this 'thorough' police river search after all, that it was two walkers who actually came across the body?

[Herlock Sholmes]

Sad news. I definitely leaned toward a non river related outcome.

[erobitha]

I take no pleasure in being right about her being in the river. It’s a sad end to a young mother’s life whichever way she ended up in the water.

[Joshua Rogan]

Sadly confirmed that a body has been found.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-64697300

[Joshua Rogan]

Police search underway downstream of the site she disappeared,, apparently after tip off from dog walkers. Looks like this may be coming to an unhappy resolution soon.

[Ms Diddles]

There wouldn't have been a woman leading, or probably even on, the team in the 1970s. There may have been a decent looking one doing the reconstruction though. That doesn't seem to happen anymore though, in general, does it ?

More's the pity, Dickere.

And I don't mean the lack of good looking actresses participating in reconstructions!!

I'm confident that some of those testosterone-filled incident rooms would have benefitted immeasurably from the input of a few smart women.

[String]

It’s turning into a zoo

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nicola-bulley-disappearance-tiktok-detective-b2285189.html

[Dickere]

I’m hardly the worlds most pc man but how can anyone even consider making a comment like that? And as you say, from a woman! Where do they get these people? I’m guessing…the 1970’s.

There wouldn't have been a woman leading, or probably even on, the team in the 1970s. There may have been a decent looking one doing the reconstruction though. That doesn't seem to happen anymore though, in general, does it ?

[rjpalmer]

When you say 'later', you mean like a decade later?
He died in the mid 1950's.

Yes, I mean a decade later. I wasn't implying there was any connection to his codebreaking. Later, merely as in later.

Wasn't Turing harassed due to his sexual preferences?

Whether the unwanted police attention explains his death is a matter of conjecture. Many believe it did, while one sympathetic biographer claims that he remained cheerful, and it was like water off a duck's back.

I read that his own mother doubted the suicide theory. She refused to believe it.

Anyway, my only point is that there are often odd details that are never resolved. And in the current case, we don't even know if Ms. Bulley is dead.

[Wickerman]

Hi Wick.

You should feel very fortunate if you've never worked for a company that required you to log-on to their tedious remote conferences. Some employers expect it.

Hi RJ
Funny as you mention it my company did require it's employees to log-on from home to complete monthly training - question & answer sessions, but I can't imagine me logging-on for a final session just minutes before I commit suicide.

The drill is simple enough. You log-on but keep the camera and the microphone off so you can gargle, comb your hair, cook breakfast, walk the dog, do the dishes, etc., while a Chief Financial Officer that you've never met and who lives on the far coast drones on about matters that don't even remotely concern you. You just have to pay enough attention to appropriately "log off" again when the meeting is over, and thus you get credit for having "attended" this required meeting. I suspect it was something along those lines.

Setting down the phone during these calls isn't unusual--it's almost guaranteed!

But what you really must be asking is 'why bother'? If someone decided to shuffle off this mortal coil or disappear, why do such a thing?

Yes, that is precisely what I meant - it wasn't the putting down the phone that was unusual, it was what was going to happen next - if she intended to end her life within the next hour - why bother logging on in the first place?

I am by no means suggesting this applies to the current case, but the chap who broke the 'Enigma' code during World War II was later found dead from cyanide poisoning in his home.

When you say 'later', you mean like a decade later?
He died in the mid 1950's.

Some were convinced it was suicide, others pointed out that he liked to conduct experiments in his home laboratory and were just as convinced that it was an accident. Others felt that he had deliberately staged the death so it would be ambiguous, and thus the people who loved him could give it their own interpretation. Those that wanted to expect the best could do so--and those that didn't, didn't have to.

There's an unintended cruelty to it, perhaps, like buying a round trip ticket to Hammersmith and then ending up at the bottom of the Thames.

I hasten to repeat that this need not apply to the current case.

Wasn't Turing harassed due to his sexual preferences?

Anyway, on reflection I wonder why the police dismissed Paul so quickly, I know they say he was sending emails. I don't think they should rest on their laurels on that score. My email has a 'send from different email address' feature.
But wouldn't we expect police to know all about this?