LE should not be putting themselves in a corner and setting themselves up to fail by being too reliant upon the river and a drowning, particularly after a very extensive search.
Are the keys likely to be in a coat pocket which has remained with the victim?
My dog hates water but at the local lake, she will go in up to her knees at the shoreline and drink the water.
We had a lad that went missing locally. Police searched the rivers, coastline, woodlands and fields. His body was located many weeks later in an area close to where he was last seen. An area that had been searched at least twice by police and search teams.
Would the keys not be with NB along with her other possesions?
Unfortunately much of the area surrounding NB's walk that day appears to have been heavily compromised with the amount of people who have been permitted to trample around what could be a potential crime scene. One would hope the police did do some initial searches, any results of which have not been revealed. Whilst the proximity of the river cannot and should not be ruled out, if that were 'hypothetically' taken out of the equation what possible scenarios remain? A medical event or accident during her walk (clearly not), left the area of her own accord, or abduction. So one of those things has to be true and without evidence (assuming there is none but we don't know that) nothing can be totally eliminated until something is found to enable a positive lead to her whereabouts
It seems counterintuitive that a human body wouldn’t stick out like a sore thumb. Maybe because we are prone to underestimating the vastness of nature, and its power.
I'm not sure why two fishermen seen near a river would look suspicious. I guess since they were seen the day before, the assumption is that they must have returned to that location the next day to kidnap Nicola?
Hoods up because it was cold- not trying to hide. I can't see anything sinister in this.
No hat
Also of note. It’s got a coded padlock on it it’s not just a free for all.
Her customary bobble hat that she is seen wearing in many other photos has not been mentioned by LE as an item to look out for, so presumably she wasn't wearing it that day? But then LE didn't mention or describe the bunch of keys either, that info has been confirmed by PA. Her hat may still be in the car or at home, to my knowledge it hasn't been confirmed either way that she had it with her
I am sure LE are looking into red van and "fishermen". Police were quick to release CCTV of red coat woman and yellow coat woman asking them to come forward. Even if police don't have CCTV of the 2 "fishermen" they could put out an appeal for the two men to come forward. Maybe they have already been eliminated. Maybe red van has too. Its frustrating but we don't get to hear everything that happens.
But in the croucher case w don't know if she had been moved there more recently. There are cases where a body is moved back nearer to original place of disappearance. LC was not hidden in plain sight, she was in the attic of a house that the owners had eft unoccupied whilst they lived in Kuwait.
It tells us nothing for certain. We don't know that every single Springer would go into this stretch of water in every circumstance. And if NB did go into the water, we don't know that Willow saw it happen anyway - she may have been wandering around confused as to where NB was. And the widely-accepted view that Willow was dry so couldn't have gone into the water is based on the evidence of one witness, so we can't even be sure that it's accurate. That's a lot of uncertainty.
She didn't have her hat on in the photo when loading the car but may have put it on when walking the dog
The man responsible for killing Leah Croucher killed himself not long after he killed her so her body never moved. She was in that unoccupied house all those 3 years but yes I agree a body can be moved. Maybe stored locally and dumped in the river in the middle of the night at a later date especially if more extensive land searches are about to start.
An awful case. All that speculation on her anorexia & whether she'd killed herself when she'd been murdered by an ex con ( who'd previously murdered his wife in Latvia)
