The dashcam footage from another driver showed the car was at the layby an hour after she left home - maybe a 25 to 30 min drive from her home so it does suggest she went straight there maybe. IMO
I meant to say mine entrances rather than mines, but yes that's a good point.
I am assuming the searchers would know the locations of any mine entrances and that these would have been searched? Although, assume there may be some they don’t know about too..
This makes a search look so overwhelming
If there was snow were there any tracks or footprints found?On the new article on the BBC website the photo shows the police and a search and rescue van in the area. There are plentiful skitterings of snow on the ground.
It also looks like desolate moorland with nothing around for miles.
It doesn't seem a safe place for a lone woman to go for a run there. Or even a lone man. Anyone.
It could be a known area for well trained cross-country runners or fell runners in the summer, but surely not in February when there is snow/ice on the ground?!
She left her home in Tow Law at 15.00hrs. Her car was found between Stanhope and Egginstone, and Stanhope (the closest of the two ) is a 17 minute drive. So, it took her approximately 20 minutes to drive to where her car was found.
Sunset is at 17.20hrs.
So that have her a maximum of 2 hours before it got dark.
It sounds like going for a run (if that's what she was doing) may have a last minute rushed idea, and she may not have had a torch, a red LED flashing light to attach to her clothing, nor a hi-vis vest on her.
Bu then just because she was a runner, it doesn't mean that's what she was doing when she went missing.
Hmmm.
Tow Law: Moorland search for missing Jenny Hall enters second day
Durham Police has renewed the appeal for information as teams continue to search for Jenny Hall.www.bbc.co.uk
There could be, although the snow was only scattered on higher areas.
I think by the following morning after she was reported missing, it was raining and would have washed any light snow away. There is none showing on that driver's dashcam footage from the night before either. Although maybe scattered patches on the moors.
there is so much we do not know about her-
Trails are visible on this map
I knew this area back in the day. For runners, there are well known routes and I assume they have all been searched and searched again. Off those routes, I can't see anyone running would deviate off other footpaths and they would have already been searched. Beyond that, it's rough moorland or dense plantation and not suitable for easy walking let alone running. In terms of Mountain Rescue search areas, it's not as vast an area as has been reported.
It has occurred to me that she is in a completely different area & the car, with the phone and smart watch were all planted at the lay-by.
That those items have revealed nothing, suggests they may not have been switched on during the crucial time. Why leave them behind if you're going running? Most people routinely carry mobile devices with them when they're out in the wilds. A fully charged mobile is the first on my list for a long walk. Unless there are mental health issues we're not being made aware of, this doesn't look like a lost runner to me but something more sinister and unrelated to the search area. By which I mean, if you disposed of a body in that area, you wouldn't leave a car as a massive attention-drawing flag.
Same. I’m a runner and everyone I know wears leggings (women and even men under shorts). Joggers, even for short distances -hard no. Maybe it’s different in the UK?
It's a very strange time of day to go out for a run (sometime after 3.20pm) at that time of year, in a location like that, especially given the low temperatures. A local farm girl would have more sense, surely. That's what I don't believe about this story. Nor where her car was parked. Much easier parking/routes from other locations than there.On the new article on the BBC website the photo shows the police and a search and rescue van in the area. There are plentiful skitterings of snow on the ground.
It also looks like desolate moorland with nothing around for miles.
It doesn't seem a safe place for a lone woman to go for a run there. Or even a lone man. Anyone.
It could be a known area for well trained cross-country runners or fell runners in the summer, but surely not in February when there is snow/ice on the ground?!
She left her home in Tow Law at 15.00hrs. Her car was found between Stanhope and Egginstone, and Stanhope (the closest of the two ) is a 17 minute drive. So, it took her approximately 20 minutes to drive to where her car was found.
Sunset is at 17.20hrs.
So that have her a maximum of 2 hours before it got dark.
It sounds like going for a run (if that's what she was doing) may have a last minute rushed idea, and she may not have had a torch, a red LED flashing light to attach to her clothing, nor a hi-vis vest on her.
Bu then just because she was a runner, it doesn't mean that's what she was doing when she went missing.
Hmmm.
Tow Law: Moorland search for missing Jenny Hall enters second day
Durham Police has renewed the appeal for information as teams continue to search for Jenny Hall.
They're extensively searching Hamsterley Forest (conifer plantation) but she wouldn't have parked her car where she did to run there as the Forest has ample car parks. But then if she didn't want to engage with anyone would it be a bad choice? The Police are also saying they're not looking at third party involvement which suggests they're looking at either accident or, more worryingly, self harm.
