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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 hope there is.

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

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

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 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.

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.

How does armchair sleuthing stop them doing their job.

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.

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].

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?

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

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

Zipped.

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.

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.

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

I’m sure those misguided people who broke into empty derelict buildings looking for the missing mum had every good intention, but it beggars belief that they thought the police wouldn’t have already checked them.

We ought not to speculate.
Just hope.
Totally agree.

This:

“At a press conference last night Supt Sally Riley, of Lancashire Constabulary, said Mr Faulding was not included in “all the investigation detail” and knew nothing more than an ordinary member of the public.

She said: “It’s kind of SGI to offer their services, genuinely, but we already have our own experts who are discounting anything else we have not already done.”

A team of 40 detectives is working on approximately 500 lines of inquiry, Supt Riley added. Detectives have also analysed data from Ms Bulley’s Fitbit smart watch, she said.

More than 700 drivers who travelled through the village around the time she went missing are also being traced.

Supt Riley said: “This is normal in a missing person inquiry and does not indicate that there is any suspicious element to this story.

“The inquiry team remains fully open-minded to any information that may indicate where Nicola is or what happened to her.”

However, it is still the Force’s theory that Ms Bulley fell into the Wyre, Supt Riley said. She also warned amateur investigators against breaking into derelict buildings and barns along the river to look for Ms Bulley and causing “distress” to her family.”

I agree, tickingbird.

A couple of days ago I looked at some of the stuff on Facebook, and the number of people who seem to be treating it as a reality TV show, and demanding that the police give them every piece of information, and condemning the police as imbeciles.

I think it’s awful that there’s now disagreement between the police and the man from the private search team. Also that members of the public are breaking into empty properties and conducting their own investigations, even abusing witnesses on social media. The amount of press in the area plus the ghouls who have travelled into the town to be nosy is just adding to the confusion and misinformation.