<modsnip - rude> She could doggy paddle the bench area easily..
ETA: there's posts saying things that suggest Willow is either submissive or a bit dim, I don't buy either personally
Again no proof that Nicola tripped, slid, tumbled - no imprint down there...no surfaced Fitbit, necklace, welly...3 hours later the river is searched
People are posting making scenarios based on the presser where police state drowning is their main working theory, but there's no evidence of any theory being substantial, yet
This is Websleuths - a million ideas about why Nikki could be at the bank edge or how she may have tumbled, how Willow fits in, are accepting something that is unsubstantiated and admittedly a forerunner so far...just repetitive and not critical, imho jmo etc
I'm with you on the dog because I know dogs.
Something must have drawn Nicole to the edge but I doubt it was the dog as the dog didn't enter the water as far as we know.
I have seen patients die suddenly and dramatically. It's possible.
Not unheard of.
I can see why a dramatic fall wouldn't leave a mark on the bank and I don't know whether the bank material would have provided a footprint or not.
The facts as presented are that she entered the park but she did not leave it.
It has been searched multiple times and police have also completed the 1km search which included everything in it's wake, buildings gardens etc etc .
They came up empty.
I think it's possible if not likely that they will extend to a 2 km search.
Even experienced searchers can miss very easily no matter how careful and thorough they are. It happens.
Dogs miss. SAR dogs and cadaver dogs need to be very very good to make the grade.
They can still miss.
If she's not in the park and nobody missed anything and the dogs didn't miss either and LE have combed and recombed and re combed again all CCTV footage of all exits except the one and if the chances of it being the one are between zero and almost zero, where can she possibly be except in the water?
It's a finite space. She's either out of the water or in the water.
And I'm certainly considering murder but murder doesn't disappear a body. And I'm considering all types of murder for all reasons and none.
It would be sheer idiocy not to.
What are the possibilities based on that alone, bare bones and streamlined to zero?