Truly a bizarre disappearance indeed (but, I guess they all are, in reality).
Some thoughts that having been fully explained so far.
They say that Corrie left camp at 11.00pm/11.15pm (he had spoken to his brother and he reported that he was in good spirits).
He arrived in BSE and parked up, no doubt with the intention of collecting his car sometime later the next day (but where ? That may be relevant).
Corrie then goes off to meet his mates in a nightclub....and then at 1.20am he is seen by CCTV cameras. The footage which has been released.
My thoughts on hearing the "timeline" to this point is, he sure has had a few drinks in such as short space of time. Lets say he was in BSE at 11.30pm and in the club. It is under two hours later that he is outside that club....and "crashes out" in a doorway.
I would accept that on leaving the camp, by car, he had not had a drink. I can't imaging the Guard Room allowing him to pass through in a car, in anyway under the influence of alcohol. So what happened to Corrie between 11.30pm and 1.20am ?
And does that indeed have anything to do with his disappearance.
Corrie was picked up by CCTV at 1.20am. From a quick search of the web, it appears that BSE has 61 cameras in the "city centre". A possibility is that Corrie would not be picked up by any other cameras if he walked toward his base from where he was.
For example, Short Brackland, Cannon Street, across the round-a-bout there and then up past the railway station (which does have camera, but not on the main road).
That puts you on the A1101. From there you can travel directly to Barton Mills OR turn off on to the B1106, which will eventually (and with some twists and turns) lead you to the RAF Honington.
Basically, there is no CCTV in all that area, that would have picked him up. However, I don't know if "traffic cameras" come under "CCTV", nor do I know if there are any on that route which are constantly on (or indeed, if they would be pointing in his direction). At this point, I suspect not.
The phone "pings". They suggest at least Corrie's mobile phone was in the Barton Mills or Mildenhall area. Triangulating "pings" is an exact science. It produces a "within this large geographic area" type answer. Still, it is enough to suggest that, at least the mobile phone was transported by a motor vehicle.
If at 4.00am, mobile phone "ping" data suggest Corrie and his phone were in the BSE, and by 4.30am the same "ping" data suggests his mobile phone at least were a "twenty minute drive" up the road.... then "whatever happened" appears to have happened between "Corrie leaving the doorway of Hughes and at least Half an Hour into his walk home". Basically "pretty earlier on" into his journey.
Which brings me back to his car. At 3.24am Corrie is facing "at least" a "2hr 40min" walk, through some very quiet and unlit roads. RAF Regiment or not, it isn't a "pleasant end" to a Friday night. Especially after spending 2hrs in a doorway.
Maybe he felt better after his doorway kip. Maybe he didn't have any cash on him, only cards. Maybe he was use to walking back to base in the wee small hours of the morning.
Maybe he was heading to his car for a kip. It all depends where it was parked. If it was in the "opposite direction" to his travel, then it's safe to say "he had no intention of him sleeping in it". If it's not, then it could be "50/50" whether or not he was going to sleep in it...depending how "bad" he was feeling (and no CCTV has been released pertaining to his condition at 3024am).
The "logical" place to get a taxi at that time in the morning, is the railway station. There are cash machines there, there are toilets and I think trains run to and from London from 5.00am (not sure on a Saturday). But it's on Corrie's way home.
It is also about "a ten minute" walk away (a slightly longer stagger, perhaps).
Note...there is CCTV at the station. But he wasn't seen there.
The "other thing" worthy of note is, he bought "fast food". And that "aint cheep". I would suspect he did have cash on him....or "at least enough" to get home by taxi.
So lets say the other option was "walk it". And it's his only option.
About 20 minutes from Hughes doorway (and I don't now what condition he is in at this time) Corrie would have reached the A1101 / B1106 divide. As I mentioned above, from here you would get to Barton Mills in about "20 mins" by car or you would "turn right" and head towards RAF Honington.
That area "maybe" crucial, in finding out what happened to Corrie.
On the mobile phone ceasing to transmit a "ping".
Was the battery removed ? Did the battery run out of juice ? Was it placed somewhere it would no longer be able to transmit. All three options are "possibilities".
What can be said is, "it did reach the Barton Mills / Mildenhall area. And it reached it faster than a person walking".
Given the three possibilities above, I would tend to rule out "the battery being removed".
And I think that, if that was the case, coupled with the fact that there has been no "claim or event by a terror group", a "terrorist abduction" can be ruled out.
The "elephant in the room" is, has Corrie been murdered.
The fact that a body has not been found, I would image it is not a simple "hit and run" case. The fact that Corrie's phone was "pinging" at around 4.00am in the larger geographic location of BSE and then "pinging" in a complete different larger geographic location of Barton Mills at 4.30am suggests that "possibly" he and his mobile was transported up there....and the fact that his phone "remained" in that area, not moving, till 8.00am, suggests "at least the phone" is still in that area....but remains hidden, rather than discarded.
A very disturbing element in this disappearance is, Corrie is a 23 year old, serving member of the RAF Regiment. And possibly "fuelled up" (or "semi fuelled up"). If he was going to walk home that morning, then he must have felt at least capable of getting the job done. Any "one" person picking him up in a car, would mean hat person was driving.
Trying to tackle a combat soldier....whilst driving a car.....in a direction he did not wish to go in.... would be quite a task. Assuming it could have been a "random abduction", then they pretty much chose the wrong guy.
So after all that (and thanks for reading it, if you did !) what is the most "stick out" thing.
Other than a "massively prepared" abduction, that isn't terrorist linked....
....maybe the "8.00am phone signal ceasing" is the biggest thing.
1. Why "8.00am".
Say Corrie became the victim of a "hit and run" driver. And that driver decided to "hide the body".
Well, lets say someone was heading home at that time. But after the incident, they didn't want to appear to be "heading home" at that time.
They could transport Corrie and his phone....and then arrive home "as normal". There would be "no questions" as to where they have been.
Someone with "good" local knowledge as to "where to hide a body" and that lived in that area...but may not have come from there.
After thinking about all this. And the geographical location (even though it would be large), and the timings. And what is in that area. I think I would be searching the water and enquiring as to the arrivals at a local base, for 8.00am and after.
Just a thought.
