Found Deceased UK - Leah Croucher, 19, Emerson Valley, Milton Keynes, 14 Feb 2019 #2

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astheworldfallsdown said:
New pictures released of missing Milton Keynes girl Leah Croucher after 100 days of torture for family
There has still been no confirmed sighting of Leah since she mysteriously vanished on her way to work on February 15.

“ What or who is stopping her from coming home or even letting us know she is safe? This is not Leah - she’s not the girl that would willingly put her family though this.”
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"This week Leah’s aunt Teresa Nicholls said the family was “in turmoil” every day as they wait for news.
She said: “Everyone is asking how her mum and dad are. All I can say is they are broken but incredibly brave.

“How do we begin to explain how lost, numb and empty they are, how they are not living they are just existing?”

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A new picture of Leah Croucher has been released
 
"We are still committed to finding Leah Croucher," say police in Milton Keynes

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The pinned tweet about Leah Croucher was removed from the Thames Valley police Twitter page for the first time this week.
But police say they are still committed to finding the missing teenager and still investigating “a number of lines of enquiry”.

They would not say whether the original search team of 50 officers and specialists had now been scaled down.

Last week police supported Leah’s parents with an interview as part of the Missing People’s charity ‘Find Every Child’ campaign, which was published in a national newspaper.

"We are currently evaluating the response from this appeal to identify further investigative opportunities," said DCI Howard.
 
I watched a documentary about Huntley last night. It was interesting to hear the view point of the senior officer who took over the Soham investigation. He said an error was made in going national with the press, because they received 1000 calls a day which took too much time. He said he felt they had not "cleared the ground at their feet first" so they went back and did that, obviously solving things locally. I wonder if that's what we have with Leah's case. It hasnt been pushed nationally because LE do not feel local ground has been cleared yet. Just my opinion but it explains the low key feel to the investigation.
 
HongKongPhooey said:
I watched a documentary about Huntley last night. It was interesting to hear the view point of the senior officer who took over the Soham investigation. He said an error was made in going national with the press, because they received 1000 calls a day which took too much time. He said he felt they had not "cleared the ground at their feet first" so they went back and did that, obviously solving things locally. I wonder if that's what we have with Leah's case. It hasnt been pushed nationally because LE do not feel local ground has been cleared yet. Just my opinion but it explains the low key feel to the investigation.
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I watched that too, really interesting!!

The "going national" thing was also addressed by police in Corrie's case as they were facing criticism for not pushing the story outside of Suffolk. They explained that they had to follow up every potential sighting, and at that stage they didn't have the resources to follow up on hundreds of tips, until they'd done all the work needed locally.

I liked the bit about the chalk road - that chalk has tiny fossils in which meant they could match up the road near where the girl were found, with sediment found under his car (even though he had changed the tyres) which proved he had been there. Forensic ecology / geology really appeals to me!
 
HongKongPhooey said:
I watched a documentary about Huntley last night. It was interesting to hear the view point of the senior officer who took over the Soham investigation. He said an error was made in going national with the press, because they received 1000 calls a day which took too much time. He said he felt they had not "cleared the ground at their feet first" so they went back and did that, obviously solving things locally. I wonder if that's what we have with Leah's case. It hasnt been pushed nationally because LE do not feel local ground has been cleared yet. Just my opinion but it explains the low key feel to the investigation.
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Is it available on you tube? Anyone got a link?

It too sounds to me like TVP may have some local info to work with, just because they seem to be keeping it low profile. MOO.
 
tresir2012 said:
Is it available on you tube? Anyone got a link?

It too sounds to me like TVP may have some local info to work with, just because they seem to be keeping it low profile. MOO.
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There was a local missing case where the police, via family SM, told people to stop putting up posters outside the immediate area and to stop trying to make the news national because they were certain that the answer was local. Trying to spread the news would only result in false sightings and would ultimately take away LE's time from where they actually felt they'd find the answer. They said if he wasn't found by a certain point there would come a stage where it would be appropriate to go national.

This person was missing for several months under pretty strange circumstances and everyone was confused by LE's message. In the end, they accidentally died a couple of minutes from where they were last seen. I think they knew something happened close by because there was no real reason for them to leave and their phone was last used where they were last seen.

I'm not saying this is the case with Leah's investigation, just giving another example where LE have intentionally kept a case quiet.
 
tresir2012 said:
Is it available on you tube? Anyone got a link?

It too sounds to me like TVP may have some local info to work with, just because they seem to be keeping it low profile. MOO.
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It's still on catch up tv I think it was called 5 mistakes that caught a killer.

It was on channel 5.

There was nothing new really but interesting to have a recap.
 
Joolz1975 said:
Guess this is out there for open discussion now.

Brother of missing Leah Croucher is accused of threatening a man the 23-year-old was dating | Daily Mail Online
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I find it very sad, the impact a person being missing has on their family and friends who don't know what to think.

Taking the law into your own hands isn't the right thing to do, but at the same time I think this exemplifies how families are not just looking for their missing loved one but also wondering who, if anyone, might know something and not be speaking up. The not-knowing is as painful in its own way as knowing one way or another :(
 
Amonet said:
I find it very sad, the impact a person being missing has on their family and friends who don't know what to think.

Taking the law into your own hands isn't the right thing to do, but at the same time I think this exemplifies how families are not just looking for their missing loved one but also wondering who, if anyone, might know something and not be speaking up. The not-knowing is as painful in its own way as knowing one way or another :(
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Yeh I agree with you.

It's a traumatic enough time without being suspicious of anyone and everyone.

He hasn't handled it well but who is to watch is any of us would deal with it
 
Amonet said:
They might just be 'rounding up' dates, I don't think it means they're the exact dates the messages started and stopped, only that the messages at some point within that time frame.
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If that was correct, with a case like this why suggest that messages have been sent 2 weeks prior to her going missing. Reading between the lines, I’d suggest that there were in fact issues prior to Leah going missing, and the texts between brother and ex boyfriend were exchanged prior to her going missing
 
bringmeacupoft said:
If that was correct, with a case like this why suggest that messages have been sent 2 weeks prior to her going missing. Reading between the lines, I’d suggest that there were in fact issues prior to Leah going missing, and the texts between brother and ex boyfriend were exchanged prior to her going missing
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I wonder what the judge means when he says there's "no basis" for her brother to have suspicions. Does this mean that the police simply haven't found anything that links him to the investigation or that they don't really agree with her brother's accusations of AC grooming and mistreating her and so there's no reason to be suspicious in the first place?
 
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cherrytree9 said:
I wonder what the judge means when he says there's "no basis" for her brother to have suspicions. Does this mean that the police simply haven't found anything that links him to the investigation or that they don't really agree with her brother's accusations of Adnan grooming and mistreating her and so there's no reason to be suspicious in the first place?
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They could simply be 2 different ‘issues’, and the 2 are not linked. I remain undecided on the boyfriend and whether he has been involved in the disappearance directly or whether Leah felt she couldn’t stand the the dispute over a potentially unaccepted relationship via either families.....there simply isn’t enough solid information available.
 
cherrytree9 said:
I wonder what the judge means when he says there's "no basis" for her brother to have suspicions. Does this mean that the police simply haven't found anything that links him to the investigation or that they don't really agree with her brother's accusations of Adnan grooming and mistreating her and so there's no reason to be suspicious in the first place?
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Probably means nothing found as at that point in time. Also, I would imagine the boyfriends phone records have been requested by police at the very least. Perhaps they are awaiting them still.

They let her brother off, as long as he accepted the order, which he did. I think that was indicative of what they (police) really thought. I would imagine now MSM will dig into this a bit more now. Very worrying. MOO.
 
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