USVI - Sarm Joan Lillian Heslop - Missing From Siren Song Moored Off Coast of St. John, Mar 2021 #2

[Rebel23]

Thanks for the link! This is infuriating but no real surprise; many here saw “something” wrong in the way the investigation was handled. Or should I say mishandled.

And people can criticize the Daily Mail but they’ve been nearly the only msm publication that has stayed with this case.

From the link:
They said: ‘Since 2022 all involved #JusticeForSarm have been requesting the release of the CCTV footage showing Sarm and her boyfriend Ryan Bane walking back to their dinghy hours before her disappearance but requests go ignored leading all to think that the footage has been destroyed.
…
In March Bane was seen working out at a gym in a Michigan town near where his parents live.

He was chased out after being recognised.

MailOnline has contacted the USVI police department for comment.

This case has been handled so badly by USVI police.

Sarm is a friend of a friend of mine and they are still desperate for answers,

I don't understand why we see, on TV dramas, that if there is a person of interest, then they are interrogated by the FBI without being able to refuse!!

Ryan Bane seems to literally have gotten away with murder.

She can't be alive now. It would be astonishing if she was.

The family and friends need closure.

 

[StillDiggin]

New three-part BBC documentary investigates the case of missing British woman Sarm Heslop who disappeared from a Caribbean charter yacht

Missing in Paradise: Searching for Sarm investigates the circumstances around Sarm Heslop's disappearance

www.bbc.co.uk

Worth a watch

 

[MsMarple]

New three-part BBC documentary investigates the case of missing British woman Sarm Heslop who disappeared from a Caribbean charter yacht

Missing in Paradise: Searching for Sarm investigates the circumstances around Sarm Heslop's disappearance

www.bbc.co.uk

Worth a watch

I hope that we here in the US will be able to watch the documentary. Part one will air on September 17.

JMO based on the little we’ve been able to learn about Sarm’s disappearance it seems highly likely that a murder occurred that night after she and Bane quarreled. My speculation only. Bane refused to allow a forensic search of the boat. Why?

I’ve always wished that whoever bought the Siren Song would let an investigator conduct a search even though certain items were removed and replaced. As far as I know no one ever approached the new owner, not even the Daily Mail.

 

[tesni]

Mystery of British woman who disappeared from a luxury Caribbean yacht​

Mystery of British woman who disappeared from a luxury Caribbean yacht

CCTV footage from 2021, released exclusively to the BBC, contains the last-recorded sighting of Sarm Heslop.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[ginnyw]

So finally the last piece of CCTV of Sarm alive has been made public - I have no idea why it has taken so long. The footage itself is concerning, as she seems to sort of pass out/keel over towards the end of it. Really, really glad that the BBC have made a documentary about this case.

 

[RobinCAL]

Mystery of British woman who disappeared from a luxury Caribbean yacht​

Mystery of British woman who disappeared from a luxury Caribbean yacht

CCTV footage from 2021, released exclusively to the BBC, contains the last-recorded sighting of Sarm Heslop.

www.bbc.co.uk

From the link -

But I did notice an inconsistency with the timestamp on the CCTV.

In reports released by the US Coast Guard, Mr Bane stated the couple had returned to the yacht at 22:00 local time.

But the timestamp - which police say they have confirmed is correct - shows them motoring away from the Cruz Bay dinghy dock at 20:45 local time.

Having also travelled this route, I know it should take five to 10 minutes in a dinghy to get to the next bay, so they would have got back by 21:00.

This means there is a missing hour that Mr Bane has never accounted for.

 

[lonetraveler]

This case IMO, is so clear. It is clear that her boyfriend killed her and disposed of her. Very, very clear. No mystery here. JMO

 

[Professor Moriarty]

This case IMO, is so clear. It is clear that her boyfriend killed her and disposed of her. Very, very clear. No mystery here. JMO

It's amazing that the police didn't arrest Bane, as they would be interviewing him as a suspect. Of course, he could then have given a "no comment" interview. But that in itself would increase suspicion.

It's also amazing that the police couldn't get a warrant to search the boat, especially given Bane's resistance to providing any help. Why would that be?

Amateur hour stuff.

Bane's lawyer keeps saying that there is "no evidence" (against his client). The circumstantial evidence is very strong. In the unlikely event that Sarm woke up and decided to go for a night time swim, or fell off the boat, and drowned, her body would have washed up on the shore according to locals familiar with local tides etc. And why didn't Bane raise the alarm immediately? Why didn't he contact the other nearby boat captains, call Sarm's name and use lights and his dinghy to look for her with the assistance of other boat crews?

 

[sapphire blue]

From the link -

But I did notice an inconsistency with the timestamp on the CCTV.

In reports released by the US Coast Guard, Mr Bane stated the couple had returned to the yacht at 22:00 local time.

But the timestamp - which police say they have confirmed is correct - shows them motoring away from the Cruz Bay dinghy dock at 20:45 local time.

Having also travelled this route, I know it should take five to 10 minutes in a dinghy to get to the next bay, so they would have got back by 21:00.

This means there is a missing hour that Mr Bane has never accounted for.

From the article

‘Mr Bane, who has never been formally questioned by police, has said she likely fell overboard or drowned while swimming while he was asleep.’

‘Mr Bane has invoked the Fifth Amendment, a right not to give evidence that could self-incriminate, to avoid questioning by cops.

He left the US Virgin Islands five weeks after Sarm’s disappearance and has never returned.’


well isn’t that a little too convenient, especially with the one hour discrepancy. Why the need to invoke the fifth amendment to not self incriminate if he is innocent?

That says volumes.

 

[KING Charles]

BBC 2 @ 10pm on Weds, Thurs & Friday this week.
Missing in Paradise: Searching for Sarm.
This will be on for 30mins each evening re: above.

 

[tarabull]

Missing Woman Who Vanished 4 Years Ago from Boyfriend's Yacht Seen in Last Sighting Before Disappearance in New Footage

Sarm Heslop, a 41-year-old flight attendant from Hertfordshire, England, was last seen in the Virgin Islands in March 2021

ca.news.yahoo.com

 

[Professor Moriarty]

Missing Woman Who Vanished 4 Years Ago from Boyfriend's Yacht Seen in Last Sighting Before Disappearance in New Footage

Sarm Heslop, a 41-year-old flight attendant from Hertfordshire, England, was last seen in the Virgin Islands in March 2021

ca.news.yahoo.com

I watched all three episodes on BBC iPlayer. I don't know how Bane's lawyer kept a straight face.

 

[KING Charles]

I just watched all three parts of ‘Missing in Paradise’ but didn’t find out much info from what we have all already gone through in the past four years or so.
One thing that got me thinking was near the end of the last episode. When the Captain who had his boat moored nearby said he heard a couple in a Dinghy. They were arguing and getting louder, this was around 12:30-1AM. He also mentioned that they were drifting near reefs.

 

[MsMarple]

I just watched all three parts of ‘Missing in Paradise’ but didn’t find out much info from what we have all already gone through in the past four years or so.
One thing that got me thinking was near the end of the last episode. When the Captain who had his boat moored nearby said he heard a couple in a Dinghy. They were arguing and getting louder, this was around 12:30-1AM. He also mentioned that they were drifting near reefs.

Yes, I’m willing to bet anything that Bane’s temper kicked in after a quarrel. IMO his ex was lucky to have escaped his threats and physical violence with her life.

Leopards DON’T change their spots.

And get this:

The boyfriend of Sarm Heslop last seen alive on his yacht has allegedly told friends “he can’t do the boating thing anymore” and has taken to the skies to be a pilot, his ex-wife has said.

Boyfriend of woman who vanished from yacht is now a pilot, says his ex-wife

Ryan Bane’s ex-wife says ‘he was like a dream, but it was all a lie’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[lonetraveler]

The replacement of the freezer is a huge piece of the puzzle.

Missing woman Sarm Heslop’s boyfriend replaced his ship’s freezer after she mysteriously vanished from luxe yacht: PI

Sarm Heslop was last seen alive three years ago Thursday, leaving a restaurant in the U.S. Virgin Islands with boyfriend Ryan Bane. Searches of land and sea came up empty.

nypost.com

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1969487902565364102

 

[StillDiggin]

Boyfriend of missing Brit speaks out for first time in four years

The boyfriend of a missing British yachtswoman Sam Hesop - who disappeared in 2021 - has broken his silence.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[MsMarple]

Boyfriend of missing Brit speaks out for first time in four years

The boyfriend of a missing British yachtswoman Sam Hesop - who disappeared in 2021 - has broken his silence.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Pfft. His public statement echoes the self-serving fluff that convicted killer Erin Patterson released in her public statement: it’s all about him, blames his lawyer for his refusal to speak to and cooperate with investigators. Nothing he said explains the utter lack of empathy towards the woman he claims to have loved.

Bane can whine about his distress over the documentary all he wants but nothing he says will erase his past behavior. His focus is clearly on convincing the public that he’s not the villain we all know he is. Boohoo Bane.
JMO

 

[rvlvr]

Watched the BBC series and while it was fine I’m not sure it’ll move things forward, unfortunately. If anything, the release of the CCTV footage slightly helps Bane in that Sarm appears, to me anyway, quite drunk and unsteady. Also, she’s wearing the clothes that Bane said she was wearing that night - of course, this doesn’t come close to exonerating him, but previously it had been suggested he was lying about her outfit, and that if he was lying about that then what else was he lying about? So at least we can put that one to bed.

Regarding the fridge and freezer, it was said in an old article these were replaced “among other things”. I’d be highly suspicious if only the freezer had been replaced, but we don’t know what these ‘other things’ were? How common is it to replace the freezer on a yacht, particularly before a sale? How recently had the old freezer been installed?

Regarding Bane’s silence, if you have an inkling that police suspect you of committing a crime then - regardless of whether you’re guilty or not - you should absolutely seek legal advice. That advice will almost certainly be, ‘say nothing’. If you’re sensible, you’ll heed it.

The ‘missing hour in the timeline’ thing is interesting but the problem is the guy who claimed to have heard a couple arguing in a dinghy said it occurred after midnight, way after the ‘missing hour’ between 9 and 10pm.

With no witnesses and no body I think the only hope is a search of the yacht but after all this time I’d be surprised if police were to discover anything of evidentiary value, sadly.

 

[Professor Moriarty]

The police should have traced the boys sitting on the quay and interviewed them in case they heard anything as the couple walked past.