UK Eliza & Henrietta Huszti, sisters both 32, CCTV captures them near a river at 2am, Aberdeen, 7 Jan 2025 #2

[davidt]

You can giggle, it was absolutely intended that way.

I don't necessarily think the family is hiding anything. I think it's very easy to hide things FROM family when you're living overseas, you've only been back twice in ten years, and your only contact us over the phone or Skype. You can tell them things like you're going to buy property, which I have always found extremely unlikely. The sisters were working as a cleaner and a barista and living in an urban centre, they were probably lucky to pay their bills on time and have enough left to feed themselves. I can't see them having enough of a buildup of savings to put a deposit on anything.

MOO

Yes, agree with you. Obviously we don't know much about their employments other than they almost certainly would have been minimum wage or thereabouts. They are also jobs where it is common to be employed on zero hours or part time contracts. If they did have full time hours then it's possible they could have been saving up. We don't know why they came to Scotland or what they expected.

Talk of Eliza losing a lot of weight may also have something to do with this tragedy. Quite likely it will never be possible to know if this was a mutually agreed course of action or whether one persuaded the other.

One thing I find really sad is the CCTV image of them walking. You see them dressed properly to protect themselves against the cold whilst knowing they were on the way to leave this life in freezing cold water. Its really moved me tbh.

 

[HoneyBunOne]

As sad as it is, it feels right that they were found so close together, both in time and distance. Horrifically painful for their family to loose hope for both women so close together, but I'm so very thankful they at least have the answer as to what happened to them.

 

[TMich6811]

So grateful they were both found

 

[TheMom77]

Sincere condolences to their family and all the people who worked to find them. I know how sad this story has been just simply as someone invested in it from a distance. Those closer to it I’m sure are having a lot to process right now.

 

[tree1]

Yes, agree with you. Obviously we don't know much about their employments other than they almost certainly would have been minimum wage or thereabouts. They are also jobs where it is common to be employed on zero hours or part time contracts. If they did have full time hours then it's possible they could have been saving up. We don't know why they came to Scotland or what they expected.

Talk of Eliza losing a lot of weight may also have something to do with this tragedy. Quite likely it will never be possible to know if this was a mutually agreed course of action or whether one persuaded the other.

One thing I find really sad is the CCTV image of them walking. You see them dressed properly to protect themselves against the cold whilst knowing they were on the way to leave this life in freezing cold water. Its really moved me tbh.

I agree, I can’t stop reflecting on that last walk together all wrapped up against the cold. Truly heartbreaking how their lives were , for whatever reason, not worth living. I know speculating on the cause is both disrespectful and pointless but I am sure the family will need to understand.

 

[Cartie]

Curiosity, autism, ADHD, too much television, too much reading, and a brain that retains trivia rather than useful information, like what happened to that thing I put down somewhere in my house, never to be seen again.

I thought you was talking about me at first

 

[tree1]

I agree, I can’t stop reflecting on that last walk together all wrapped up against the cold. Truly heartbreaking how their lives were , for whatever reason, not worth living. I know speculating on the cause is both disrespectful and pointless but I am sure the family will need to understand.

I do though think the picture painted to the family was very different to their reality.

 

[ShastaDaisy]

A bag wouldn't be enough for ID. How would you know that one sister hadn't handed it to the other before going into the river? A tattoo is possible - the third sister has a tattoo with her name, so maybe all three of them did.

I think that Henrietta and Eliza probably both had tattoos like Edit's with their name, which seems like a strange thing to do but maybe it helped to identify Henrietta immediately.
JMO

 

[L'Eau_d'Hiver]

One thing I find really sad is the CCTV image of them walking. You see them dressed properly to protect themselves against the cold whilst knowing they were on the way to leave this life in freezing cold water. Its really moved me tbh.

I felt exactly the same.

 

[ShastaDaisy]

I am surprised that they did not find the body when they were searching, considering where it was found. It is so sad. Why would it not have been washed out to sea, could it have been snagged on something? Really surprised they didn’t find it during the searches. Why would they not have found it with all the searching they did? If the two of them entered the water together and for whatever reason they wanted to end their lives and wanted to die with each other, they could have handcuffed themselves and they would have been found together.

I don't think that LE was searching upriver from where they disappeared. I may be wrong but that's the impression I am getting.
JMO

 

[iamshadow21]

I don't think that LE was searching upriver from where they disappeared. I may be wrong but that's the impression I am getting.
JMO

In a tidal river mouth? I think they would be looking wherever the bodies could have conceivably drifted.

MOO

 

[imstilla.grandma]

A woman’s body was recovered from the river near Queen Elizabeth Bridge just before 8am on Friday and while formal identification has yet to take place, the sisters’ family has been informed.

The body of a second woman was found in an area of the river near to the Victoria Bridge at around 9.05pm on Friday and recovered, Police Scotland said.

Second woman’s body found in search for missing sisters

The family of Eliza and Henrietta Huszti has been informed.

www.shropshirestar.com

 

[touch]

I don't think that LE was searching upriver from where they disappeared. I may be wrong but that's the impression I am getting.
JMO

There was a link posted in thread #1 which detailed the search area. It included as far upstream as Duthie park (a bit over a mile upstream)

On Saturday, officers confirmed they were extending their search area towards the Port of Aberdeen's South Harbour and Duthie Park

Source

 

[L'Eau_d'Hiver]

I do though think the picture painted to the family was very different to their reality.

Right. It's possible the reality of their everyday life and situation in Scotland was not matching what they were hoping/aiming for when they left their home country.
Unmet expectations can take a toll on mental health for all of us, but according to studies they can be even more challenging for expatriates.
Anyway, I feel very sorry and sad they struggled so much, whatever the reasons.

 

[ShastaDaisy]

There was a link posted in thread #1 which detailed the search area. It included as far upstream as Duthie park (a bit over a mile upstream)


Source

Thank you for the link and the clarification.

 

[davidt]

I hope the police are able to find something to explain the circumstances. From their point of view I guess they want to make sure there was no third party involvement. By that I don't mean anyone else being with them that night. It's pretty clear that's not the case here. However there may have been something going on in the background that put pressure on the sisters or they felt threatened or even had become involved in something else. Perhaps some sort of religion/cult. Probably far fetched but I imagine the police have to consider all these things.

So far publicly at least there's little to go on and the police have said as much.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

In a tidal river mouth? I think they would be looking wherever the bodies could have conceivably drifted.

MOO

But I do think they had really concentrated more on the ocean side...
I just felt that there was probably more evidence from the "water experts" that they would more likely have gone downstream.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

Second body found in river in search for missing sisters in Aberdeen

Henrietta and Eliza Huszti were last seen near the River Dee in Aberdeen on 7 January.

www.bbc.com

Officers found the second body in an area of the river near to the Victoria Bridge at about 21:05 on Friday. The first body had been found near Queen Elizabeth Bridge at about 07:55.

Now, I am curious why searches earlier netted nothing... I am sure we will hear something to try to explain this, as we move forward.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

Wondering if the sisters were aware of the ''Silent Twins" doc.? speculation, imo.

June and Jennifer Gibbons - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

''According to Wallace, the girls had a longstanding agreement that if one died, the other must begin to speak and live a normal life. During their stay in the hospital, they began to believe that it was necessary for one of them to die, and after much discussion, Jennifer agreed to make the sacrifice of her life''.

welllll............ This was one interesting rabbit hole to delve into..
Such an interesting case. I read much of the source material on the Wiki page.

The Scotland twins of thetriplets were bound to stay together, unlike the Gibbons twins, but, as often the case, the psychology of twins cqn be fascinating. I wonder if there will be Press hounding of the third triplet now that we have found the others.

I have two sets of twins in my family... two aunts, and two cousins. Nothing so interesting as what we have been learning here!

A relatively recent interview with the surviving twin, June.

‘Silent Twin’ tells her story for the first time in a new BBC Sounds podcast

In 1982, June and Jennifer Gibbons were the youngest women to be sent to Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital after a crime spree that saw them cause hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage in arson, vandalism and theft over a period of five days.

podnews.net

 

[nhmemorymaker]

You can giggle, it was absolutely intended that way.

I don't necessarily think the family is hiding anything. I think it's very easy to hide things FROM family when you're living overseas, you've only been back twice in ten years, and your only contact us over the phone or Skype. You can tell them things like you're going to buy property, which I have always found extremely unlikely. The sisters were working as a cleaner and a barista and living in an urban centre, they were probably lucky to pay their bills on time and have enough left to feed themselves. I can't see them having enough of a buildup of savings to put a deposit on anything.

MOO

This is sortof what I was getting at. My guess is that family was either worried about them taking care of themselves, financially. Or, was thinking that the move to Scotland should have seen them in much better shape financially. The "saving up" to buy property would be a good thing to say, to stop any questioning.

I think there might be a lot more to learn about the two, from phones, writings, computers etc....... but there is no reason for us to know any of this. The family might learn more if these items are returned to them, but, I would think there is a strong likelihood that there is no reason to share.

IF, as we have been speculating, Eliza did have some devastating illness, might the family share?
IF, as some of us wondered early on, there was some nefarious or difficult details going on in the background, might the family share?

dunno.