Found Deceased UK - Nicola Bulley, 45, last seen walking her dog on footpath by the river, Inskip, Lancashire, 27 Jan 2023

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The water depth indication may only be at one point of the river, or an average. I'm sure at certain sections it is deeper. It's also a very murky river because of the suspended sediment likely due to the erosion along the banks. My guess is she fell in very close to that bench which her phone was left on, and within the next few hours her body quickly moved downstream due to the air pockets in her jacket. Once the search area is expanded I suspect they will find her.
 
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Missing Nicola Bulley - all we know from muted phone call to abandoned dog lead

The mortgage advisor was last seen walking the family dog Willow at the footpath of a river at 9.15am on Friday off Garstang Road in St Michael’s on Wyre in Lancashire
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''She was on a work call at the time she disappeared, but she appeared to have her camera off and was muted at the time.

Ben Pociecha, the director of Exclusively Mortgages, told The Daily Telegraph that she had logged onto a team meeting at 9.01am on Friday.

“It seems as if she was muted and didn’t have her camera on. She was listening in whilst walking her dog,” he said.

“There were numerous parties involved in this. A lot of people attended the call. The police are investigating the call.”
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''A neighbour who did not want to be named, said: "The family is extremely close knit, they are very loving and they will be in absolute pieces, it's a mystery they just have no idea where she is, we went out on the search on Sunday and she has taken the dog there loads of times but the banks of the river can be very slippy.

"You just don't know do you but I do know that she would have never ever left those children voluntarily. The whole family is doting. I would imagine Nicola was a doting mum. They are the loveliest people you could ever wish to meet. I think everyone is devastated because she seemed the kind of girl who didn't have a bad bone in her body, she was extremely pleasant and homey, she lived for her daughters and Paul.''

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These are my two cents.

It is important to ascertain who dropped the children off at school. If it was NB, the investigation continues where it is going at present.

If NB did not drop the children off at school:

We need some evidence that NB was walking her dog at all. A witness saying they saw her or a woman and a dog is not good enough. Hence the need for dashcam footage etc

NB signed onto her zoom call meeting or whatever it was, but was muted and microphone off. Maybe NB was already missing at this point and if she did not sign on to that meeting at the very least, chances are her employers would have raised the alarm. That's at least one trail of thought I am having.

Maybe NB never went on the walk at all.

Who took the kids to school?
 
Themac101 said:
I’ve posted about this earlier so my apologies, you’re right, it’s not deep, I’ve been in it right up to the top of my waders in conditions similar to this in summer, if anything the river is lower now than at points during the warmer months. It’s not overly fast either. That being said as children we were always warned that you can drown in water only a few inches deep. I’m not a scientist so take this with a pinch of salt, but I don’t think the river is deep enough for a body to float very far before becoming visible from the bank.

Obviously being close to a river causes your % chance of ending up in a river to go way up. The % chance that someone would fall in, not be able to get out, drown, become snagged in a hole permanently out of view and not be found 3 days later in that particular river is pretty much 0% IMO. I think people might be visualising big, deep rivers like the Severn, Ouse, Thames etc.

I also saw a post here stating that the dog wasn’t wet either. That means one of two possible causes for her ending up in the river is ruled out. Leaving only that she fell in without the involvement of the dog. What are the chances?
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Yes exactly. I know it's possible to drown in shallow water (and there could be deeper bits near the weir as has been posted) but as you say the chances of not being found in this scenario now seem pretty low.
 
WhoDaFookIsThatGuy said:
These are my two cents.

It is important to ascertain who dropped the children off at school. If it was NB, the investigation continues where it is going at present.

If NB did not drop the children off at school:

We need some evidence that NB was walking her dog at all. A witness saying they saw her or a woman and a dog is not good enough. Hence the need for dashcam footage etc

NB signed onto her zoom call meeting or whatever it was, but was muted and microphone off. Maybe NB was already missing at this point and if she did not sign on to that meeting at the very least, chances are her employers would have raised the alarm. That's at least one trail of thought I am having.

Maybe NB never went on the walk at all.

Who took the kids to school?
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I agree with this, particularly about the witness sighting but surely the daughters would have confirmed that NB dropped them at school.
 
Firstsnow4 said:
Is this an odd way of wording it? ‘He has been located and is being spoken to’ rather than ‘he has come forward and is assisting police’. I don’t know maybe I’m losing the plot!!
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My initial thoughts too, maybe I read into things too much but we are all aware of how police normally word these things.
 
SpursGyal said:
My initial thoughts too, maybe I read into things too much but we are all aware of how police normally word these things.
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Yes it’s usually ‘helping us with our enquiries’ or of the likes.
 
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Well even at that I would imagine CCTV would capture her car going to school and/or a teacher seen her and/or other parents.

The older daughter may run into school alone but the 6 year old would (I assume) be escorted by a parent/adult. Jmo
 
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<modsnip - disparaging comment about an approved source> they published an article today where the map visual confirms that Nicola took the girls to school and left her car on the school car park.

It is the first I've heard/seen it - re the car.

The Daily Mail - Missing Mother Nicola Bulley Boss Reveals Muted Work Call
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Thanks - Yeah I think this was discussed earlier - if that’s the case it would be good to know if the car remains in situ and if her partner shared the car with her. There is an awful lot we are not being told.
 
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I suppose if there are mental health issues they wouldn’t be allowed to say as it’s private medical information.

If she’d slipped wouldn’t there be skid marks down the bank and would her dog have just left her?

Her fb shows pictures of her dog swimming minus the harness but walking with it. I’m guessing she took it off to allow him to swim?

I think that must be the last place her dog saw her otherwise why would he be waiting there?

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WhoDaFookIsThatGuy said:
These are my two cents.

It is important to ascertain who dropped the children off at school. If it was NB, the investigation continues where it is going at present.

If NB did not drop the children off at school:

We need some evidence that NB was walking her dog at all. A witness saying they saw her or a woman and a dog is not good enough. Hence the need for dashcam footage etc

NB signed onto her zoom call meeting or whatever it was, but was muted and microphone off. Maybe NB was already missing at this point and if she did not sign on to that meeting at the very least, chances are her employers would have raised the alarm. That's at least one trail of thought I am having.

Maybe NB never went on the walk at all.

Who took the kids to school?
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BBM - that's a good point. Her boss didn't seem too sure - according to the DM article (again BBM) 'It seems as if she was muted and didn't have her camera on. She was listening in whilst walking her dog,' he told MailOnline. "

Whether he was on that call or not I would expect him to know by now if she contributed or not, and sounds to me from that like she probably didn't. So there's a chance it could have been someone else who signed in or that NB signed in and abandoned the phone.

Hopefully more witnesses will come forward.
 
The lack of cctv in and around small villages is terrifying. I live in a capital city so you wouldn’t get far here without being spotted but in these remote spots it a whole different ball game..
 
would be incredibly helpful to know NB’s regular pattern when dialling into these work calls. Or indeed what the company expected of her.
 
WhoDaFookIsThatGuy said:
These are my two cents.

It is important to ascertain who dropped the children off at school. If it was NB, the investigation continues where it is going at present.

If NB did not drop the children off at school:

We need some evidence that NB was walking her dog at all. A witness saying they saw her or a woman and a dog is not good enough. Hence the need for dashcam footage etc

NB signed onto her zoom call meeting or whatever it was, but was muted and microphone off. Maybe NB was already missing at this point and if she did not sign on to that meeting at the very least, chances are her employers would have raised the alarm. That's at least one trail of thought I am having.

Maybe NB never went on the walk at all.

Who took the kids to school?
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So how did the dog get to the river of she was not walking it? How did her phone and the dog stuff get on the bench?
 
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