Similar speculations on social media. Maybe there is something in our psyche that WANTS mystery and intrigue. I was surprised actually that they didn't cordon off and do forensics on the area - if only to shut off that particular line of speculation. Maybe it would have been pointless if the whole world has been tramping through.
PF has his supporters and critics but he did a thorough sweep of the areas he was tasked to search and that was the water, deep holes and the river bed, not the banks, vegetation or the reeds which were the remit of the police divers and searchers. And if PF says she was not in the water, deep holes or the river bed of the stretches he searched at that time, IMO he should be believed.
Link?
He "Wouldn't want to speculate"
not that unusual if you live beside a river and go walking there daily... especially if you're actively on the lookout for bodies and know that people have gone in the river or may have gone in the river nearby.
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podcasts.apple.com
This guy is a liability. I respect him volunteering his time and expensive equipment to search but I have close friends who work with several mountain rescue teams and it's *never* your job to interfere with police investigations like this, PF has interfered and caused mayhem from the start and the more it happens the more it feels like a calculated effort to bring more hysteria and social panic over the situation at the expense of NB's family, despite them being extremely clear that it has harmed them. He completely discredits himself and his profession.
Diving expert says Nicola Bulley found on 'perfect deposition site'
The boss of a private search team who searched the river bed said he wouldn't want to speculate as to whether the body was deposited at the site.www.express.co.uk
he is still doing this - he just said 'Police divers/search teams searched the area who has the same equipment as his own sonar!, and his search will clearly identity a body in the water but wouldn't include the reeds/side.
A quote from PF in the news article..Diving expert says Nicola Bulley found on 'perfect deposition site'
The boss of a private search team who searched the river bed said he wouldn't want to speculate as to whether the body was deposited at the site.
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Does anyone know if the media pay for these types of interviews? Ex-cop with no knowledge of case prepared to give five to ten minutes of his or her time to national news channel — does money change hands? It seems like some of them just say whatever is most likely to attract attention rather than giving a responsible and experienced opinion.
there will be a fee, it won't be huge.
Another police officer who wasn't involved in the case's media interview on media intrusion.BBC Newscast podcast which includes an interview with a former detective superintendent and their take on the media intrusion.
Newscast - Nicola Bulley: "We Can Let You Rest Now" - BBC Sounds
After over three weeks of searching, her body has been identified.
Nicola Bulley: "We Can Let You Rest Now"
Podcast Episode · Newscast · 20/02/2023 · 32m
www.bbc.co.uk
nice one, but PF statements are clear as mud!! often contradicting himself.Nicola Bulley: Why can it take so long to find bodies?
By Dominic Casciani
A question many have been asking is - could she have been found sooner?
Without getting into scientific detail that some may find distressing, bodies do not stay in one position at the bottom of water, near where they were last seen.
Over time they will resurface, unless they have become completely lodged in an unreachable underwater location.
There has been a lot of focus on Peter Faulding, the private search contractor who works with police forces around the UK.
Crucially, Mr Faulding says sonar would never be used to search reeds by the side of a river because it would not penetrate them.
Such a search would have to be manual riverbank and wading search.
"My previous comments saying that if Nicola was in the river, I would find her, still stand," the forensic search expert said.
We do not know if the police or any other team carried out that manual search of the critical area or had been tasked to.
And it is not clear whether Lancashire Police considered other technologies.
Nicola Bulley: Why can it take so long to find bodies?
The science, skills and practice of finding bodies in water shows it is one of the toughest challenges in policing.
With such a big case like this you're going to get ex cops and ex detectives alongside people who are respected in various fields linked with something like this, giving their opinion. I don't understand why everyone is up in arms about it.
