Nicola Bulley 45y Old mum of 2 little girls missing from River Wyre area since last Friday morning at 9:15am walking her dog, Willow.

Peter Fauldling is not a police officer, it is easy to think he is when he's on the news.. he was confident his company would find her if she was in the water sohe is as he says, baffled.......He doesn't know all that the police may know though.

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Forensic expert Peter Faulding, founder of Specialist Group International, who help the police with searches.

I think Supt Riley is pushing the theory that she fell into the Wyre because even after the new search by Mr Faulding who has 20 years experience and high spec sonic equipment no body has been found so far is to hide her forces failures in this case ie not securing the crime scene etc and just focusing on searching the river.

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I feel for super Riley and believe it’s incorrect to state the police are ‘just focussing on searching the river’

It seems she is not in the river. I still suspect a third party is involved.

At first they concentrated on searching the river believing she had fallen in and in my opinion did not cordon off the bench and surrounding area as a potential crime scene, I saw for myself on TV next day 2 ladies with dogs there and one of them sitting on the bench. Yes now they are concentrating on other enquiries but at first they were just searching the river. Supt Riley even after extensive searching of the river is still sticking to the idea that she had fallen into the river, why?

Supt Riley said
"Because there is no criminal element yet identified, and we don't expect there to be in this inquiry, then we're not starting to go into houses because that's not where the inquiry is leading us,' she added."

I question why as well.
She is coming across as stubborn to me[I looked up the definition of stubborn to make sure I had the right word].

It’s the right word but the wrong sentiment.The police are working flat out on this case, more than usual for a missing person where there’s no evidence of a crime.
People should let them do their job and stop the criticism and armchair sleuthing.

How does armchair sleuthing stop them doing their job.

Just read about a young man in Scotland who went for a walk last March and disappeared. Never heard a peep about that on the news. It really is the most mystifying and distressing thing for a person to disappear without trace with no clues and no answers.

I just read that, too. So many people go missing. I never understand why the police go for maximum publicity for some but others are ignored.

I still think the dog running backwards and forwards to the gate must mean something
T!he gate is self locking so the dog 🐕couldn't get through it.and is not a normal gate .
There It is suggestion now of a tatty looking red van around at that time police want to trace
I am surprised they haven't checked the caravan camp.

I didn’t realise that. I thought the dog was running from the river to the bench. This is worrying.

Veejay. How do you know they haven't searched the caravan camp? It strikes me that there are too many arm chair detectives on here who seem to think that the police are just pretending to search. There will be a lot going on that we do not know about.

I think most of the posts here show that the dog is the element that makes this case mystifying and unfathomable. Also the phone.

I hope there is.

It is not the police who give cases maximum publicity, it is in this case family and friends who are keeping their friend in the public domain. otherwise it would go down the page and disappear as happens in other cases of peoples loved ones who disappear such as Finn in the news yesterday who disappeared a year ago You have to keep it in the news yourselves

I think the friends and family are on TV tonight in a programme made with Dan Walker as the interviewer. Whilst I am not sure whether this is helpful, Dan Walker is at least a sensitive person, I think he has daughters of a similar age.

The obvious thing to do when they found the dog was to tell him to 'seek' her and then follow him. The dog would most likely have followed her path while the trail was fresh. Or otherwise use sniffer dogs. To me that was always the first and most obvious thing to do. It would have told them whether she went in the water or along the river bank.

Not all dogs act to commands such as ‘seek’ .

Exactly! It’s a pet spaniel, not Rin Tin Tin!

Clearly the dog has the answer but only trained sniffer dogs would be any use and I guess they’ve already gone down that route.

Others on this thread have said that spaniels are good sniffer dogs and surely he would want to follow his mistress.

I was once sat in a car in a car park in Cornwall. The rest of the family took her for a walk along the beach but when they let her off lead ( quite a way from the car) she ran straight back to me. It scared me at the time because she ran across a car park to get to me. Also she was running back to the place she had left. Had the family stayed in the car and I’d gone for a walk would she have followed me? I agree: it’s the behaviour of the dog that complicates everything. Spaniels are very food orientated so if someone threw food to distract her it would have worked.

Anniebach

Not all dogs act to commands such as ‘seek’ .

They would use whatever term they like, 'find mummy' or 'where's mummy' or whatever. I simply used the work 'seek' to cover all these expressions.

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Others on this thread have said that spaniels are good sniffer dogs and surely he would want to follow his mistress.

Yes, I said it myself. I’m interested to know if the police did a re-enactment involving the dog. Maybe tonight’s programme will reveal a bit more.