Missing Blogger Esther Dingley

[Portiapoo]

I personally reckon the police are reeling him in somewhat.. but they’re playing the long game knowing he’ll come unstuck

 

[Lau123]

I know the Dan stands are going to shout at me for this but anyone else getting red flags that he found her? Why is this reminding me of Ian Huntley so much?

I just came on to say the same thing. Very odd and it doesn't add up at all to me.

 

[Lovely]

Well, that's awfully convenient of him...

 

[petitspois]

Even if he had nothing to do with it, he’s a real pseudo-intellectual isn’t he?

 

[Tiffany_]

Inaccessible can also mean fell to a place that is inaccessible?

 

[Bettyboo2475]

After reading through this thread I did a bit of research and found they had a YouTube channel. This video is quite chilling considering what has happened. I hope she’s ok.

Oh my god. The way he dominated everything. She couldn't get a word in. I hope she has escaped. Poor girl.

 

[OnlyHereForTheLolz]

I think there could be footage of her being attacked and eaten by a bear and some people would still say “it was the bf”

 

[DCICassieStuart]

Two of my teachers in school (I'll call them Miss A and Mrs B) were best friends for years. Mrs B became ill and passed away. About a year later Miss A married Mrs B's husband.
This was over twenty years ago, and as far as I know they're still together.

An even worse one was a friend of a friend who I met a few times. She and her sister were very close. Only about a year apart in age. Her sister passed away after a short illness and six months later she left her husband for her now widowed brother in law.
You can only imagine the confusion and upset that caused. Both families had kids and now Auntie was Daddy's girlfriend six months after Mummy had died.
Her ex husband (really lovely guy, a real gentleman) was devastated.
Of course when they both woke up and realised what they'd done, it all ended. She wanted to get back with her husband then, but he said no. The kids were all quite young at the time (pre teens) Her two oldest kids (late teens now) don't talk to her anymore and don't want anything to do with her.

 

[Pinkblush]

Police forces work closely with refuges and halfway houses so whilst her location would not be exposed to the media there's no way that a reputable refuge would stand by and watch a huge search being undertaken at great cost and also a waste of police time. A cousin of a friend fled to a refuge and the first thing they do is encourage to inform the police so their time is not wasted if you're reported missing. Refuges rely on police support to help protect women and children so there's just no way this is the case. The police as part of their investigation always check this line of enquiry with missing women. I even saw it on a detective programme the other night where they said' okay, make sure you check refuges and hostels' when they were looking for a missing girl. Her having fled to a refuge would have been ruled out at the very beginning of her being reported missing and I don't think she'd put her parents thru this heartache. She would have told them of her plans.

 

[Bettyboo2475]

Everyone can comment, if you dont like what's written then keep scrolling. Its a fascinating situation and the analysis on here is what keeps me following it.

 

[openbook1]

The more time goes on, the less likely she is alive.

What's crazy is a person is more likely to be killed by someone they know, than by a stranger.

 

[Tots]

New poster on this thread, I have been curious as to what happened to this lady, nearly 3 months on and no sign.
I have found this thread and all the different theories very interesting. Don’t really have anything to add other than to say for someone so “experienced” she didn’t seem to carry sufficient supplies/keep enough battery power/make sure she had enough daylight to reach her destination.

 

[AlanB]

When did Mr. Colegate hire the PR Company ? I find this absolutely bonkers - if I had a loved one lost on a mountain the LAST thing I would do is spend my time looking for a PR Company to hire !

Somebody mentioned Ian Huntley and they are right, it does have similarities, Huntley imposed himself on every part of the investigation just like this.

I want to see any evidence that the Police have said Mr. Colegate is in the clear - because otherwise I don’t see how he is not a ‘person of interest’.

 

[Bettyboo2475]

That’s because she’s at a woman’s refuge in Spain. The refuge is not allowed to divulge the names of women who seek their safety. That’s why it’s gone quite. They family have been informed though, hence no need to keep it in the public domain.

Please let this be the case

 

[flopsymopsy]

is there a possibility he knew he needed to 'find her' so that if forensics placed his DNA at the scene, he could reasonably explain why it was there?

 

[AlanB]

It has been claimed from another site that allegedly a skull with long red hair has been found, it is suggested that this was picked up by vultures and the body may be some distance away. I don't know if this is true but the long red hair would make it more likely to be Esther Dingley - it also makes it more understandable if vultures were involved (apparently it is not uncommon behavior) because otherwise one would have expected these "bones" to have been found with the rest of her body and kit. Apparently these vultures have been known to strip a body down to bones in 45 minutes flat !

 

[Queen Vic]

Hi I'm new to the form, I've joined because right from the start I had serious misgivings about the true nature of these events. Today I've read the 23 page dossier that DC has so diligently put together....It absolutely reeks of someone trying to get their story straight and seems like a handy reference guide so he remembers what he's said before about communication and routes etc. Criminology is one of my hobbies and I'm afraid to say we've seen it all before too many times. The bit that jumped out at me was ED saying ' maybe I can see you' when conversing with DC. I think it means that he went up that mountain to surprise her. I don't know about red flags but you could clothe an army with the amount of material you'd need to make all the flags

 

[Bettyboo2475]

Sounds convincing, but then it's easy to sound convincing on an internet forum. The truth is, anyone can log on here and say anything. I do find it a bit strange that someone with inside information would rock up on Tattle - but I guess stranger things have happened.

British media stopped reporting on this case (to my knowledge) around two weeks ago. I haven't seen anything since. You'd think a statement of some sort (however vague) would be released if Esther was safe? In any case, I would think the refuge would have informed the police who are investigating her disappearance.

Maybe this is true. Perhaps the poster is based in Spain/has local knowledge of the case. Who knows!

It sound like a fact. I know one of Esthers friends and she is distraught like all her friends and family are. Some people are really enjoying this situation and this was my concern with a previous poster who has strangely disappeared.

No, just an idea, thanks

Thanks. Are you enjoying the attention

 

[SummerSky]

I find it especially suspicious that he’s ‘found’ her shortly after that bone turned up. I’d guess at this stage he wasn’t expecting that to happen so now he’s had to either tamper with her more, or he thinks ‘finding’ her will stop people being suspicious of him.

I think he moved the bone. It would be way too unrealistic & dramatic for hikers to stumble over her when he'd hidden her so well initially.

He moved the bone as a teaser.

So that he could seize glory a week or two later.

He wants a bestseller via more BBC interviews. And to be seen as a hero.

 

[thegirlscout]

It was BBC Breakfast 2 December. Here's the clip.


He said "I loved her for that...... " then switched to "I love her for that".
And there were some other things he said about her in the past tense.

Several men commented on this on Twitter. And women, but more so men.

He also said something odd at the end:

"I'm convinced she isn't up there".

How can one be convinced of that on December 2nd - day of this interview? Such early days.

Ooof that was it! Totally got it the wrong way round in my post, my apologies. Was half watching it in my defence. Thank you so much for posting the link! Glad other people picked up on that too.

Just seen this on FB

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On a very superficial note I wish the Lucie Blackman trust hadn’t changed its name to LB Trust Global. It honestly sounds like a business company dealing with business to business issues and offering solutions instead of a missing person’s charity trying to help find British people lost abroad.