I also agree that the details are the key here especially as there are so little details to work with. I also think that both the location services being switched off the day before for an hour 15 minutes and the fact this was on Valentine’s Day/ the day after are both significant. More so with the very fact stipulated that there is a “Mr. X” involved here, and not just speculation due to it being valentines. Not to mention this Mr. X has never come forward and confirmed this romantic relationship.
@Frivolous @ChiCubs2016
Also does anyone know if there was ever a location associated with where Leah’s phone was switched off on the day before on the 14th when she went off somewhere for an hour an 15 minutes?? I don’t remember ever seeing anything about where the location was actually switched off? We know that it was switched off near the hotel end of Furtzon lake on the day of her disappearance at 8:34. Could this be a possible meeting spot? As
@ChiCubs2016 @HollyHunter9 suggested. Or perhaps she went and got contraception? Hence turning off her location. Then again she is 19, there would be no need to conceal that sort of thing.
I’m sorry if I’m just going over in circles here but I have just spent some time on google earth going back and forth over this route.
What we know for certain is that Leah lived at Quantock crescent and we know she left that address on 15th Feb at around 8 am on her way to work. We also know that she is known to take the Leigh hill route on to buzzacott lane, and was spotted at 8:07 am on Leigh hill “just metres away” source:
'We find it hard to believe nobody saw Leah Croucher,' say police as the missing girl's 21st birthday approaches
We then know for certain that she arrived and was seen walking through buzzacott lane at 8:16 am, walking towards Dulverton drive/ Telly tubbie hill/ Chaffron way.
We then know for sure that Leah’s phone was switched off at 8:34, just 18 minutes away from where she was last confirmed seen on cctv. It was later revealed that this phone was switched off around the northern end of furtzon lake, near the hotel. Source :
Police narrow down Leah Croucher's disappearance to a single square mile in Milton Keynes
We also know that Leah was known to use the Rutherford Gate foot path as seen on this cctv- THIS WAS NOT FROM THE DAY SHE WENT MISSING, but 2 weeks previous to specify her route. Source:
https://mobile.twitter.com/heartmknews/status/1101528411409924097?lang=en
This means she would’ve been picked up on cctv on faraday drive, when she come out of this footpath on Rutherford gate, and old cctv suggested that the she usually makes it to faraday drive however on the 15th Leah is never picked up on faraday drive which narrows this down quite a bit. Source :
Leah Croucher: Clothes appeal in missing teen case
We also know Leah worked at DFC on Davy avenue in knowlhill.
So with the facts in hand, and using google earth, I started from her place of work. The route inclusive of Rutherford gate that Leah took is actually available and suggested on google maps ( walk)
Due to where DFC is, which is at the back of the industrial estate from Leah’s perspective/ Emerson valley/furztons perspective, she probably used the red way/ foot path that runs along Kelvin Drive- on to the underpass/ red way under Watling street that leads on to Silicon Court.
It is possible however that she may have decided to use the underpass/ red way under the H7/ Chaffron way road, which goes all the way under watling street and comes out on the footpath right next to the hotel/
restaurant where her phone location was switched off at 8:34 day of her disappearance. If that’s the case, it also leads me to Chaffron way underpass
@HollyHunter9 and as it is quite a busy/popular by pass- she must’ve got a lift/ met up with someone willingly as an abduction here, i would like to think, would catch someone’s attention.
From furtzon lake, depending on which way around the lake she decided to go, although clockwise around being the longest on to lynmouth crescent, I believe to work she would’ve took the quicker route to save her legs, and gone anti clockwise on to Bilbrook lane.
I’m not sure if I believe in the sightings although I keep an open mind as it’s odd nobody has come forward. As many others have probably suggested, if you was in that state at the secluded end of a lake in the middle of a cold feb morning you would remember if that was you or not.
From bilbrook lane again I presume she went down loxebeare drive as it best fits in with the “walking towards the direction of dulverton drive/ tellietubbie hill” sighting on buzzacott lane, for non locals, or anyone unfamiliar, loxebeare drive is just off dulverton drive.
But that thing about her not being caught on the cctv on faraday drive is bugging me. Does this imply something happened between buzzacott lane and faraday drive surely? And that regardless of not being picked up by other cctv or witnesses, she was sure to be picked up on faraday, so we know Leah never reached there.
said
Police said her usual route to work would be via Buzzacott Lane and then onto Faraday Drive, but "extensive CCTV work has shown that she did not arrive in Faraday Drive on the morning she went missing". From
The article above.
Again sorry if this is just circulation of what we already know. I really hope there is both closure and justice soon for Leah’s friends and family, and for everyone that helps to get to the bottom of this.
