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

[RobinCAL]

They entered where the blue dot is.

Police is asking for CCTV from the streets marked red

Yes, so its agreed they came off the bridge then and away from the city centre?

Just a bit strange to desire CCTV on the streets after the path if the police are saying no evidence they left the immediate area (unless the police are classing that as immediate and not just the path itself).

Which would argue against their working theory of the sisters being in the river.

 

[JennieM]

It makes sense they would walk together at 2am if one of them or both of them had a cleaning job or another job they had to do.

 

[Moonchild90]

Would any businesses from those streets be open around 2am?

Google says Morgan Fuels is open 24/7. Can anyone local confirm?

 

[JennieM]

If they are in one of the buildings, that would also account for them not being seen exiting the area.

 

[JennieM]

Google says Morgan Fuels is open 24/7. Can anyone local confirm?

This is a Google review but from 4 years ago:

4 years ago
Always open

 

[Sjöberg]

I wonder if they had needed to make ends meet

As they both had more of a low-income jobs, it did cross my mind if the reason they were out with a bag on a weekday night was connected to any less legal ways of making money or any trouble they could end up in due to lack of money.
But considering the (overall) safe region, I had no real theories towards any such ideas.

 

[Moonchild90]

Yes, so its agreed they came off the bridge then and away from the city centre?

Just a bit strange to desire CCTV on the streets after the path if the police are saying no evidence they left the immediate area (unless the police are classing that as immediate and not just the path itself).

Which would argue against their working theory of the sisters being in the river.

I think you could exit the river path by crossing in between the industrial buildings or around the playground etc.

 

[Skigh]

If they are in one of the buildings, that would also account for them not being seen exiting the area.

I imagine that the police would have checked the buildings .

 

[Binx26]

That is what I keep going back to. If they were wanting to get to somewhere in Torry, it would have been mad to take a dark unlit icy path - which is not a shortcut.

Whilst I do think intentionally entering the river is the most likely explanation. I can’t shake the idea they were meeting someone. My husbands first thought (knowing the area) was that it is where you would meet for something ‘dodgy’. Perhaps they got unintentionally caught up in a situation or were being forced or exploited in some way? That is not a nice thought and I suppose would mean they have potentially come to some harm. Although, I would assume that CCTV would have identified people or vehicles in the area. The Esplanade would be quiet at that time of night and any vehicles would be fairly obvious.

 

[Binx26]

I think you could exit the river path by crossing in between the industrial buildings or around the playground etc.

Yes. On Google maps it shows several industrial buildings before the boat club. These are no longer there, if you look at the pic I posted from today it is just wasteland running alongside the path. There are some temporary fences but these have gaps and could easily be blown or pushed over.

 

[TonnnnUK]

That is what I keep going back to. If they were wanting to get to somewhere in Torry, it would have been mad to take a dark unlit icy path - which is not a shortcut.

Whilst I do think intentionally entering the river is the most likely explanation. I can’t shake the idea they were meeting someone. My husbands first thought (knowing the area) was that it is where you would meet for something ‘dodgy’. Perhaps they got unintentionally caught up in a situation or were being forced or exploited in some way? That is not a nice thought and I suppose would mean they have potentially come to some harm. Although, I would assume that CCTV would have identified people or vehicles in the area. The Esplanade would be quiet at that time of night and any vehicles would be fairly obvious.

This all makes logical sense. It's also been mentioned in the media that detectives have previously said they didn't believe "anything suspicious" happened to them.

In my mind, this possibly means that anyone else seen on CCTV going down that path has been accounted for on other CCTV footage in the area and so the women were the only people on that path at the time.

I can't imagine many, if anyone actually uses that path once it's gone dark so it would probably be one of the quicker tasks to do reviewing CCTV cameras freely available to investigators and accounting for people going into and near that path / the Esplanade

 

[TMich6811]

Does the boat house or whatever have cameras? How are they confident they didn’t make it to the boathouse at any point?

 

[Skigh]

Does the boat house or whatever have cameras? How are they confident they didn’t make it to the boathouse at any point?

I would be very surprised if the boat house did not have security cameras.

 

[JennieM]

If we exclude suicide, they would only go there at 2am for either a job or to meet someone. Did one of them maybe have a boyfriend who was working in the area?

Many cleaners work in the early hours, it could have been a job.

Are these all the possibilities or are there more?
- job
- meeting someone, either a stranger or a known person
- accident
- suicide
- being followed by someone

 

[Sillybilly]

ADMIN NOTE:

The sisters are two of triplets, so they have a remaining sister, a brother, mother, and all indications are that they were close.

Suicide while possible, doesn't seem probable. There are no known facts to support ongoing speculation in that regard so please move on from that speculation.

Thanks.

 

[JennieM]

ADMIN NOTE:

The sisters are two of triplets, so they have a remaining sister, a brother, mother, and all indications are that they were close.

Suicide while possible, doesn't seem probable. There are no known facts to support ongoing speculation in that regard so please move on from that speculation.

Thanks.

I agree, doesn’t seem probable.

 

[TMich6811]

I would be very surprised if the boat house did not have security cameras.

Agreed. I’m looking back but don’t see where it mentions cameras or that they didn’t reach the boathouse. Only that they were going in the direction of the boathouse. So if we take it as that - because why else would they be going that direction - - -

Who would have had access of the boathouse at this hour?

Perhaps this explains 2am on the path. Whether they made it or not

 

[Kittypoo]

If we exclude suicide, they would only go there at 2am for either a job or to meet someone. Did one of them maybe have a boyfriend who was working in the area?

Many cleaners work in the early hours, it could have been a job.

Are these all the possibilities or are there more?
- job
- meeting someone, either a stranger or a known person
- accident
- suicide
- being followed by someone

Walk to clear head couldn’t sleep
Dropped something precious earlier so retracing steps
Lost a pet
Had bad news
A friend called with an emergency
Nefarious reasons drug taking/dealing
Romantic liason
I’m sure there could be other reasons but the facts appear to show that they entered the path and did not reemerge anywhere do not look good.
Fingers crossed positive outcome

 

[Coach]

There are a number of points where someone could exit the path before the boat club and the next bridge. I did wonder if they were heading somewhere else in Tory and I tried to think of a reason why they would leave the bridge and go down to the path. The only reason I could think of was that one of them could have needed the toilet. I do wonder if one of them possibly slipped and fell and the other tried to help.

 

[JennieM]

if there was anyone else there (already waiting for them or arriving after they were already there), that person would have been caught on cctv, wouldn’t they? or is that not 100% certain?

for now i’m leaning towards no one else being involved, but you never know

Not if that person was waiting for them inside a building and was inside that building for several hours?