"Eyewitnesses said 36-year-old Alexander was carrying a rucksack
when he left The Bull Inn pub in Sonning, Berks, a quarter of a mile from Hollywood star Clooney's mill house,
around 7.30pm on Saturday January 11th."
Police searching for millionaire's missing son Alexander Stern find body in the Thames | Daily Mail Online
Kinda zooming into this point.
What we do know:
- Alexander is last seen at the Bull Inn in Sonning on the evening of 11 January
at around 19:30.
Now, there's 'eyewitnesses', so more than one, claiming to have seen him carrying a rucksack when he leaves the pub.
However, there is no time stamp given on the time 'Alexander' is seen on camera wheeling a suitcase suspected to be going towards Sonning Bridge.
"Mr Stern, who according to reports is the son of stationery businessman and Ferrari collector Ronald Stern, was last seen at the pub
at about 19:30 GMT."
Police search continues for man last seen in pub
He was seen
at about 19:30 GMT at the pub. He's seen by a few others carrying a
rucksack when he leaves the pub again
at around 7:30pm.
Do the times add up? The last time he was seen was at around 7:30pm in the pub. Seems to me, he left in the 7:30pm time frame.
The eyewitnesses who claim to have seen 'Alexander' carrying a rucksack towards Sonning bridge, I believe is incorrect. I do not think that person was Alexander.
Regardless, this has completely nothing to do with the CCTV that captured 'him' leaving with the suitcase as there is no time stamp given. If that information is released, then that makes it easier to come to a conclusion. With that said, it could be the other way round, maybe the person the eyewitnesses claim to be Alexander carrying the rucksack could very well be him, but then again, the person wheeling the suitcase as shown on the camera may not be him.
Or, it could be him in both cases. The person the eyewitnesses claim to have seen with the rucksack, (no mentions of the suitcase) could be him. Makes sense, the sighting is around 7:30, roughly the time he was seen at the pub last.
What about the cctv camera that captured him with the suitcase? Well, it could very well just be him going back and forth, this time with the suitcase only as there is no signs of the rucksack.
Did he go to Sonning Bridge first with the rucksack to give it to someone there? Explain how it was found by a, "postman later found a rucksack on the bridge above the Thames"
Police searching for millionaire's missing son Alexander Stern find body in the Thames | Daily Mail Online
If that's the case, then there are a two scenarios in line to that:
1- He is killed when he first goes with the rucksack, in this case the eyewitnesses who claimed to have seen him would be correct. If this is the case, then the person seen on the cctv camera wheeling the suitcase
cannot be Alexander. Someone impersonating him to cover up tracks?
2- Alexander himself goes back and forth. First time round he goes with the rucksack, then comes back and take the suitcase. If this is the case, then the cctv camera and the eyewitnesses statements are both correct. This is now a question of why however, why not go at once with both items? Was he killed after taking the suitcase to whoever it may of been? The rucksacks contents dumped/taken by the possible perpetrator/s and then left on the Bridge to make it appear that it wasn't a mugging gone wrong?
Other scenarios:
3- Entirely off grid - suicide? Doesn't equate to the suitcase and rucksack however, but best to keep an open mind.
4- Meeting someone on the boathouse to exchange 'items'? First time round with the rucksack perhaps? Goes wrong, said items are not in the rucksack? Fight happens? He's killed then and there?
5- Renting/owes a boathouse? Unexpected visitor/ expected visitor? Struggle then he's thrown overboard? Must be more than one person though. Or perhaps was expecting visitors?
6- He was initially running away from someone. Suitcase and rucksack would come in line and make sense in regards to this. Stops off at the pub for a quick drink, the time he's seen in the pub, and the time he's seen en route to Sonning bridge would make this a plausible theory.
7- He was planning to lay low. Staying over at a hotel or a boathouse, the suitcase would make this plausible again. Laying low because he's dumped the rucksack on the bridge for whoever he had a need to go missing from. He then goes back to the pub this time with the suitcase after dumping the rucksack and goes on his way.
An altercation happens on his way to hotel or boathouse? He's not done what was said in regards to the rucksack being placed on the bridge? Don't want to reinstate points again, but this comes in line with point (4)
One question resurfaces again, where is the suitcase?
