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

[Sarahlou]

Did it say how long they have lived in the country?

7 years

 

[Lalalacasbah]

Any reason they'd head to the boat club at that hour? Did they know anyone who lived on a boat and went to visit?

Was one of them chatting online with anyone socially or for work/business and asked to meet so the other sister came for safety?

When I think of the boat club, I am oddly reminded of that case years ago where the journalist in Denmark invited to that inventor's submarine for an "interview"... No idea if boat club was even a destination, brainstorming out loud. MOO

*ETA: my bad, after some looking I realize the boat club isn't a moorage for "living boats" but a ROWERS club. Please ignore my idea!

 

[19thcenturynovel]

I'm local and the answer to the above is no. They were walking away from the railway station heading over the bridge. Nothing would be open apart from maybe a petrol station. It would be very dark where they were walking along the side of the river.
There is a small Hungarian community in Aberdeen, I believe. Maybe the women became isolated and depressed or were possibly duped/coerced into going there. They appeared cheerful in family calls but it is possible to mask depression.The police will have additional film of them because they know they were headed in the direction of the Boat Club.

Divers scour River Dee in search for missing sisters

Helicopter, boat and land searches were under way to trace Eliza and Henrietta Huszti.

www.pressandjournal.co.uk

 

[19thcenturynovel]

The Boat Club, as far as I am aware, is for rowing. They can often be seen training. I have never seen a houseboat on the River Dee.

 

[Lalalacasbah]

The Boat Club, as far as I am aware, is for rowing. They can often be seen training. I have never seen a houseboat on the River Dee.

Yes thank you! I edited my comment as I went Googling and realized I was thinking a different type of boat club. Oops! Thank you for clarifying too

 

[Lalalacasbah]

I'm local and the answer to the above is no. They were walking away from the railway station heading over the bridge. Nothing would be open apart from maybe a petrol station. It would be very dark where they were walking along the side of the river.
There is a small Hungarian community in Aberdeen, I believe. Maybe the women became isolated and depressed or were possibly duped/coerced into going there. They appeared cheerful in family calls but it is possible to mask depression.The police will have additional film of them because they know they were headed in the direction of the Boat Club.

Divers scour River Dee in search for missing sisters

Helicopter, boat and land searches were under way to trace Eliza and Henrietta Huszti.

www.pressandjournal.co.uk

Nice to hear a local perspective, thanks! Look forward to your ideas and input on this.

So everything was closed, weird. Did the gas station have a convenience store (ie: snacks, food, tylenol, etc)?

Was it the only open close to their home? Did either of them smoke, maybe need to buy cigarettes and gas station was only place open? Or maybe the place to get snacks, medicine if someone had a headache, or an urgent product?

 

[19thcenturynovel]

They lived in the town centre, we are told. Yes, the petrol station would have all of the above but we would know if they had stopped along the way. They would have no reason to walk along that river path if that was their intention.
The cost of living is high and we know one of them worked in Costa. Maybe they had money worries. Yes, I live locally but I'm as puzzled as anyone else. However, I fear their actions were driven by despair.

 

[TonnnnUK]

Nice to hear a local perspective, thanks! Look forward to your ideas and input on this.

So everything was closed, weird. Did the gas station have a convenience store (ie: snacks, food, tylenol, etc)?

Was it the only open close to their home? Did either of them smoke, maybe need to buy cigarettes and gas station was only place open? Or maybe the place to get snacks, medicine if someone had a headache, or an urgent product?

They turned from the bridge onto a dirt path that runs alongside the river. This path is behind a section of industrial units which look to have surrounding fence, next to the path. It would have been dark, and no access to those industrial units. From Google Maps it looks like that path leads behind and into the boat clubs grounds and back to the main road the boat club and those industrial units face onto. It seems a very odd choice to go along that path when they could have just carried on along to that road a few yards further along.

A BBC article states that they live in the "city center". Their direction is heading out, away from the centre.

 

[19thcenturynovel]

They were heading away from the centre of town. There is housing behind the side of the river they were following. They weren't heading into the middle of nowhere but it keeps returning to the question of why were they walking along that river path? In the middle of the night?
Friday evening here, folks. I'm signing off now.

 

[Sjöberg]

So many possibilities, but none of them too good.
I must say I am actually leaning towards some sort of foul play at the moment.
It is not that I think suicide is unlikely. But more that a double-suicide in water in the winter with neither of the bodies nor any items being found is unlikely. Far from impossible, yes, but not too likely. Where I live, by far the most common method of suicide is hanging, followed by (don't remember the order) jumping from height, jumping in front of a veichle, poisoning yourself (usually with medicine) or firearms (for middle-aged men). Drowning is not in the top 5 methods imo. (EDIT: but @iamshadow21 if you have more data on suicides via drowning in winter in the UK, let us know - not least because examples can always produce copycats!)
Shady people organizing shady things in a dark part of the city with no open businesses and no CCTV on the other hand seems quite probable.

 

[truthfinder2019]

The sisters didn’t have any known financial difficulties or mental health issues.

Missing twin sisters 'seemed normal' before disappearance, says friend

Eliza and Henrietta Huszti have been missing from Aberdeen since early on Tuesday morning.

news.stv.tv

 

[ChatteringBirds]

I am trying to think what is Occam's Razor in this case (the simplest explanation) and having difficulty.

If the worry is self-harm, and for some reason they chose the river, wouldn't they have jumped from the bridge itself, rather than cross over it and go to water level? That idea doesn't add up to me.

Could it have been an accident for the same reason men sometimes fall into rivers, one needed a hidden place for a bathroom emergency and accidentally fell into the water and other sister tried to help? Still doesn't explain why they were taking a walk out there, though.

 

[MrsWatson]

Sisters vanish in Scots city as CCTV captures them near river at 2am

Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, both 32, have gone missing from their home in Aberdeen city centre.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

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Reposting this shot from the CCTV so we can all try to figure out what each of the ladies has in their hands.

One the left, looks like she is carrying something light colored and round-ish. On the right, crossbody bag and some other sort of bag?? in the other hand.

 

[Grouse]

So many possibilities, but none of them too good.
I must say I am actually leaning towards some sort of foul play at the moment.
It is not that I think suicide is unlikely. But more that a double-suicide in water in the winter with neither of the bodies nor any items being found is unlikely. Far from impossible, yes, but not too likely. Where I live, by far the most common method of suicide is hanging, followed by (don't remember the order) jumping from height, jumping in front of a veichle, poisoning yourself (usually with medicine) or firearms (for middle-aged men). Drowning is not in the top 5 methods imo. (EDIT: but @iamshadow21 if you have more data on suicides via drowning in winter in the UK, let us know - not least because examples can always produce copycats!)
Shady people organizing shady things in a dark part of the city with no open businesses and no CCTV on the other hand seems quite probable.

I don't have the data, but in the UK in the last year there have been a couple of cases in the news of women drowning in rivers in urban areas, both with threads on WS - Victoria Taylor in Malton, and Gaynor Lord in Norwich.

I hope these women are found safe, but the choice to walk on that path by the river at that time does not bode well I fear.

 

[Bigditch]

Do we know what the other sister did for work?

In the CCTV footage they look hurried, one sister had the strap of her handbag over her opposite shoulder, protecting it, as if she knew they were in an unsafe location.

 

[TonnnnUK]

I doubt whether this is significant, but the CCTV image shown in the appeal appears to have been taken some 600 metres away from Market Street. The juxtaposition of the image and the text may lead you believe that this is the last image taken of Eliza and Henrietta, but clearly it isn't.

Location of CCTV image (link points to Google Maps). The stitching together of Google's images makes the right hand side of the entrance look slightly different to what you see in the CCTV image, but that anomaly disappears when you move around slightly on Google Maps.

The police haven't said what time the CCTV image was captured. Was it earlier in the evening, and have the sisters spent time in town before heading towards the river, or was it taken in the early hours of the morning capturing them directly en route?

Everything about this disappearance is very worrying.

This could actually be significant depending on the time the CCTV captures them. Good work on pinpointing the CCTV location.

IF this capture is of them en-route to when they were last sighted, it actually makes no sense for them to walk the route they did if they intended to come out of the other end of that dirt path and continue along to the A596. It would have been more direct to have walk past the west side of the train station as I alluded to in an earlier post quoted below.

Looking on Google maps, that path has very easy access to the water, unfortunately. Easy access as in where you could walk directly into the river. It's not a steep bank or anything where an accident (fall) could happen.

From the articles it states they were mostly homebodies who don't drink and keep themselves to themselves. To venture down that particular gravel/dirt path that has open/clear access to a river in the middle of the night seems extremely out of sorts. It's also heading away from the city center which is where the BBC article states that they live.

If say they were on their way to somewhere/to meet with someone their direction from the bridge is leading towards the A596. Which, logically on the map would have been quicker/easier to get to from the West side of the train station from the city center than east Side and across the bridge they were last seen on.

All this said, to simply walk into a river in freezing weather seems a very unlikely method to take if that was the intention. But there's some odd movements to explain.

Given their is a safe (safer) road route to get to the same location as the dirt path 50 meters along from the bridge, why take that path to save maybe a few minutes of the journey? And again, back to their chosen path to the destination from the CCTV location (IF that was en-route to their last seen location). It's an illogical route to take in my opinion.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Do we know what the other sister did for work?

This article says she is a cleaner.

Missing twin sisters 'seemed normal' before disappearance, says friend

Eliza and Henrietta Huszti have been missing from Aberdeen since early on Tuesday morning.

news.stv.tv

 

[azure]

This article says she is a cleaner.

Missing twin sisters 'seemed normal' before disappearance, says friend

Eliza and Henrietta Huszti have been missing from Aberdeen since early on Tuesday morning.

news.stv.tv

Also from the article, I think this may be conflicting info with other articles:
"Eliza, a cleaner, and Henrietta, who works in Costa in the Bon Accord shopping centre, moved from their native Hungary to Scotland in 2014."

 

[Sarahlou]

I don't have the data, but in the UK in the last year there have been a couple of cases in the news of women drowning in rivers in urban areas, both with threads on WS - Victoria Taylor in Malton, and Gaynor Lord in Norwich.

I hope these women are found safe, but the choice to walk on that path by the river at that time does not bode well I fear.

I looked up some stats and around 200 people in the UK take their own lives in the water each year.

 

[TonnnnUK]

Do we know what the other sister did for work?

In the CCTV footage they look hurried, one sister had the strap of her handbag over her opposite shoulder, protecting it, as if she knew they were in an unsafe location.

The CCTV location is a mile away from the last seen location.