Missing Blogger Esther Dingley #2

[colouredlines]

THANKYOU for your posts. I have been on this thread since January and it’s become more and more obvious that this has just been a tragic accident. In my opinion, these batshit theories about her other half murdering her are actually just disrespectful to her memory at this point.
Yes it would make for great reading if Dan had murdered her, but it just isn’t feasible. Let’s just leave her to rest and let her loved ones grieve.

That's it exactly. I also find it really distasteful to see this baseless speculation that Dan was an abusive, controlling monster, which some people seem to take as fact just because other posters have repeated it often enough. No evidence. Zero. None. And you can bet your bottom dollar that the UK tabloids would have done all they can to dig up dirt on the relationship...

I've followed this case from the start - as I said, I live near the Pyrenees and I'm a hiker. The speculation just keeps getting more and more outlandish, and it feels increasingly ghoulish and disrespectful to both Esther's memory and the loved ones she left behind.

 

[AlanB]

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In contrast to Laura Adomaityte's statement, we have the words of Esther's aunt, speaking on behalf of her father, who said Esther had phoned her dad to tell him she would soon be going home to Dan; we have the words of Esther's long-term close friend Phil Ash, who said she told him the same;
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This is very interesting, can you link to the source for these statements please.

 

[colouredlines]

This is very interesting, can you link to the source for these statements please.

Esther's aunt, saying that she had told her father that she would soon be returning to Dan: https://www.archive.is/oldest/https...Dingleys-disappearance-Pyrenees-revealed.html

Esther's friend Phil Ash saying the same: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/esther-dingley-missing-hiker-boyfriend-search-q7dfx3l95

 

[SummerSky]

Phew. Some wild DC defenders on here suddenly.

Plenty fire. Little research.

 

[colouredlines]

Phew. Some wild DC defenders on here suddenly.

Plenty fire. Little research.

Little research? I've laid facts out clearly.

If you have a problem with my posts, feel free to report them.

Edited to add: this poster has diagnosed Dan Colegate as a narcissist, a "100% women hater", and much more besides; they have claimed that a poem with the word "stains" in it written months BEFORE Esther went missing indicates that her body was wrapped in a tent and carted off the mountain; and they accuse other people of posting without doing research. Hilarious.

 

[AlanB]

Esther's aunt, saying that she had told her father that she would soon be returning to Dan: https://www.archive.is/oldest/https...Dingleys-disappearance-Pyrenees-revealed.html

Esther's friend Phil Ash saying the same: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/esther-dingley-missing-hiker-boyfriend-search-q7dfx3l95

The second link for Phil Ash is behind a paywall, can you cut and paste it here, thanks.

 

[colouredlines]

The second link for Phil Ash is behind a paywall, can you cut and paste it here, thanks.

Archive here: https://archive.ph/saBLq

 

[flopsymopsy]

I don’t think the “I think is can see you” is just a joking, looking towards the area of France he was, sort of text.
because if it was a joke, why would she say “I think”

Wouldn’t she just say, I can see you from where I am!

dunno. Gives me strange vibes

 

[SummerSky]

Little research? I've laid facts out clearly.

If you have a problem with my posts, feel free to report them.

Edited to add: this poster has diagnosed Dan Colegate as a narcissist, a "100% women hater", and much more besides; they have claimed that a poem with the word "stains" in it written months BEFORE Esther went missing indicates that her body was wrapped in a tent and carted off the mountain; and they accuse other people of posting without doing research. Hilarious.

You are very confused.

I wrote no post about the "poem with the word "stains" in it..."

 

[AlanB]

Thanks for the archive colouredlines .

I have to say I find those links unconvincing, we know Ms. Dingley and Mr. Colegate put out a rose-tinted view of their lives generally (as most people do) and the Police confirmed. I think it highly unlikely that she would be candid to an Aunt and a male friend of theirs.

I think the discussion with Laura Adomaityte in an unguarded moment on the trip is far stronger and fits in with her curious actions i.e. leaving the house-sit so quickly and then sleeping just an hour away from the house-sit(!) - which she then followed up by CONTINUALLY delaying the ending of her trip.
We also know that she was unhappy about Mr. Colegate's plans to end their travelling - she seemed to be at a critical point as this was the very last trip before she would have to go home.

All in all I think the evidence points to the relationship being in serious trouble.

 

[SummerSky]

The French police told us that Esther and Dan's relationship was troubled.

It's a whackload of gaslighting for some rather frenzied commenters to claim we made it all up.

If those commenters wish to debate it, by all means debate it with the police.

 

[colouredlines]

Oh FFS, I give up.

The posters here have clearly made up their minds, regardless of little things like evidence and facts.

I just hope that Tattle does not become a refuge for Websleuths ghouls.

 

[AlanB]

Oh FFS, I give up.

The posters here have clearly made up their minds, regardless of little things like evidence and facts.

I just hope that Tattle does not become a refuge for Websleuths ghouls.

Whilst I may agree with you on some matters when it comes to the state of the relationship I think perhaps you should give up, the evidence you have presented on that is not strong - and that's being generous...

 

[Superdude]

Many relationships are troubled. Very very very few end in murder. I came to dislike my ex-husband, and we separated. He has since died, of entirely natural causes - does our history make me a suspect in his death?! I do believe both Dan and Esther were troubled; after all, she wanted to continue their nomadic life rather than return to a more settled existence, and perhaps even some regular employment? I think she had difficulties not necessarily related to Dan, and on her last hike she did not behave or prepare like a reasonable adult. I have read comments that she mistook her fitness for experience - I'll try to find a link for these!

The gaslighting is coming from people who seriously think forensic investigators would be fooled by a body killed (inside a tent, according to some posters) and taken elsewhere for months, then the remains taken to a mountainous area and distributed in an inaccessible spot, with most of Esther's belongings scattered nearby. Like, what?!

 

[SummerSky]

Many relationships are troubled. Very very very few end in murder. I came to dislike my ex-husband, and we separated. He has since died, of entirely natural causes - does our history make me a suspect in his death?! I do believe both Dan and Esther were troubled; after all, she wanted to continue their nomadic life rather than return to a more settled existence, and perhaps even some regular employment? I think she had difficulties not necessarily related to Dan, and on her last hike she did not behave or prepare like a reasonable adult. I have read comments that she mistook her fitness for experience - I'll try to find a link for these!

The gaslighting is coming from people who seriously think forensic investigators would be fooled by a body killed (inside a tent, according to some posters) and taken elsewhere for months, then the remains taken to a mountainous area and distributed in an inaccessible spot, with most of Esther's belongings scattered nearby. Like, what?!

Lol we need the Cold Case Foundation to pay you a visit about your dead ex.

PS. But before you start packing for the airport this is just a joke.

Once again, try not to assume you know more than the police. They said it was troubled.

 

[colouredlines]

Whilst I may agree with you on some matters when it comes to the state of the relationship I think perhaps you should give up, the evidence you have presented on that is not strong - and that's being generous...

Yep, definitely on the verge of breaking up.

 

[Superdude]

Once again, try not to assume you know more than the police.

That's ... hilarious, given the claims and assumptions made on here recently!

 

[AlanB]

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Yep, definitely on the verge of breaking up.

Ah, so you're back again.

We know from Mr. Colegate that the claims of a bad signal were often not true because he was surprised when he got up there that there was in fact no problem most of the time.
He was a controlling character, she was doing her best to fob him off - and we have no idea what was said in that last video call.

 

[SummerSky]

That's ... hilarious, given the claims and assumptions made on here recently!

How exactly did the ex you disliked so much die?

 

[Superdude]

How exactly did the ex you disliked so much die?

It was an accidental fall while hiking ...

that's not true, he had a cerebral haemorrhage at the age of 50.

ETA - my point remains; I disliked him, I didn't want to live with him or be married to him any longer, but that was enough - as adults, we could live our own lives and there was no need to kill him. That really is rare; yes, it happens, but I feel Dan could have murdered Esther under much easier circumstances, if he was really so inclined. Staging an accident while hiking could have many other outcomes.