Missing Blogger Esther Dingley

[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.

 

[Showmethemoonie]

It would be way too unrealistic & dramatic for hikers to stumble over her

I’m personally not wedded to any particular theory re: accident/suicide/foul play but there are lots of reasons why the skull fragment might have only just been found. Snow melt, percolation through rocks, moved by animals, dropped by vultures, trails only just been reopened for the summer.

If you spend any significant amount of time in mountains you know how easily accidents can happen and how hard it might be to locate/recover a body. I just hope this latest discovery helps the police get to the bottom of what really happened.

 

[SummerSky]

Esther posted twice "I think I can see you" in the days leading up to her phone signal suddenly dying

She had never stated that before in years of hiking.

Dan is a "mountain runner". He put that in the blog.

It takes 4hrs to get up the mountain from Luchon.

 

[Superdude]

Esther posted twice "I think I can see you" in the days leading up to her phone signal suddenly dying

She had never stated that before in years of hiking.

Dan is a "mountain runner". He put that in the blog.

It takes 4hrs to get up the mountain from Luchon.

How do you know she never stated that before? Did Dan say so?

 

[PineappleQueen19]

Also remember that the messages released are a *selection* to show timings, routes and ‘her happiness at the time’ (!)
And the dossier was compiled & released by LBT Global

 

[SummerSky]

How do you know she never stated that before? Did Dan say so?

I read all her Facebook posts in 2020.

 

[Superdude]

Yes but wasn't the "maybe I can see you" a text message to Dan?

 

[SummerSky]

"they were found "in a very rugged area", at the level of the Pic de la Gléré, a few hundred metres higher than the eponymous Port."

translated from

https://actu.fr/occitanie/bagneres-...riel-d-esther-dingley-retrouves_44044812.html

So...

Esther summits Pic de Sauvegarde & her phone goes dead after a call with DC.

Then we are supposed to believe with darkness falling soon that she then summits another Pic (peak) and accidentally gets into an "inaccessible" place.

"On Monday afternoon, Dan Colegate spotted the body below the Pic de la Gléré, in an area that was "very difficult to access", and reported it to the gendarmes, who intervened on site."

But even more miraculous... Dan the superhero has eagle eyes.

He manages "to spo

"they were found "in a very rugged area", at the level of the Pic de la Gléré, a few hundred metres higher than the eponymous Port."

translated from

https://actu.fr/occitanie/bagneres-...riel-d-esther-dingley-retrouves_44044812.html

So...

Esther summits Pic de Sauvegarde & her phone goes dead after a call with DC.

Then we are supposed to believe with darkness falling soon that she then summits another Pic (peak) and accidentally gets into an "inaccessible" place.

"On Monday afternoon, Dan Colegate spotted the body below the Pic de la Gléré, in an area that was "very difficult to access", and reported it to the gendarmes, who intervened on site."

But even more miraculous... Dan the superhero has eagle eyes and magical intuition.

He manages "to spot her" in such an "inaccessible" place

* Sorry for the awful duplicates above. My phone editing is bumpy.

 

[Tots]

I read the “I think I can see you” message as meaning the general area he was in, from a long distance?

 

[SummerSky]

I read the “I think I can see you” message as meaning the general area he was in, from a long distance?

It could be so.

But it could indicate he'd joked he was coming to see her. There was debate about it on Tattle.

I now think it was the latter & thus she was evasive about her locations.

After all... He is the stalkery controlling type who wrote about loathing her.

And she as someone noted a few pages ago ... spent nights in trailer parks near their housesit rather than with him.

 

[Lovely]

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

 

[Showmethemoonie]

Esther summits Pic de Sauvegarde & her phone goes dead after a call with DC.

Then we are supposed to believe with darkness falling soon that she then summits another Pic (peak) and accidentally gets into an "inaccessible" place.

Exactly how accidents happen - even experienced hikers can overestimate their ability when tired (she had minimal food), in fading light, with temperature dropping, potentially icy conditions. If she’d fallen and had an accident with those conditions she’d be severely impaired.

The recently found piece of skull would have narrowed down the search area, entirely possible that where the rest of her remains were found has been covered in snow until now

 

[SummerSky]

Yes but wasn't the "maybe I can see you" a text message to Dan?

It was Facebook posts. Twice.

She posted it publicly.

 

[Superdude]

I don't think Dan sounds like a great guy to be in a relationship with, but I also know (sadly from personal experience) how often people die in accidents while hill walking / mountain climbing. And the body not being found immediately isn't a great mystery, given the time of year. However, who knows? I hope the police are able to gather enough evidence to confirm how she died, and whether anyone else was involved.

 

[SummerSky]

Exactly how accidents happen - even experienced hikers can overestimate their ability when tired (she had minimal food), in fading light, with temperature dropping, potentially icy conditions. If she’d fallen and had an accident with those conditions she’d be severely impaired.

The recently found piece of skull would have narrowed down the search area, entirely possible that where the rest of her remains were found has been covered in snow until now

I think you have a very kind mind. And what you state is definitely plausible.

I like some others, view his past & present behaviour as seamless.

He is predictable because of his inner rage. IMO.

 

[Showmethemoonie]

I think you have a very kind mind. And what you state is definitely plausible.

I like some others, view his past & present behaviour as seamless.

He is predictable because of his inner rage. IMO.

I’m inclined to agree with @Superdude - he might not have been a great partner but there are far more indicators that it was an accident (she hardly had any food, she was using a phone rather than map to navigate, she didn’t have a personal locator beacon, didn’t have a clear idea of the route she was taking, was in the Pyrenees at a very dodgy time of year where it would be sub zero temps at night with no winter tent). I think unless you’ve spent a lot of time in the mountains it’s perhaps difficult to grasp just how dangerous it can be, and how quickly you can get into trouble if you’re alone.

 

[Damita]

Even if he truly had nothing to do with it, his way of going about things with media companies, the generally arrogant behaviour, and now making pronouncements on what happened rather than let the appropriate investigation and law enforcement agencies do it, is extremely unlikeable

It really rubs me the wrong way when people who are in the news because of tragedy hire PR companies and act like celebrities.

The first time I saw this happen was with the McCann case, and what I think of them is probably something I should not print.

I know we all respond to grief and attention in different ways but I find it downright bizarre and it instantly makes me lose sympathy for people. Just seems so narcissists.

 

[SummerSky]

I’m inclined to agree with @Superdude - he might not have been a great partner but there are far more indicators that it was an accident (she hardly had any food, she was using a phone rather than map to navigate, she didn’t have a personal locator beacon, didn’t have a clear idea of the route she was taking, was in the Pyrenees at a very dodgy time of year where it would be sub zero temps at night with no winter tent). I think unless you’ve spent a lot of time in the mountains it’s perhaps difficult to grasp just how dangerous it can be, and how quickly you can get into trouble if you’re alone.

The location she was found in is described as "inaccessible".

That alone tells us it is most likely murder.

I noticed the French police or the journalist used the word murder for the 1st time in today's article.

"Inaccessible" kind of cancels out accidental.

Inaccessible = hard to enter naturally.

 

[Tiffany_]

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

 

[Superdude]

The location she was found in is described as "inaccessible".

That alone tells us it is most likely murder.

I noticed the French police or the journalist used the word murder for the 1st time in today's article.

"Inaccessible" kind of cancels out accidental.

No - if someone falls, accidentally, into a crevasse, then the place they land could well be inaccessible. And if it's inaccessible, how would a murderer have taken the body there?
Anyway, I truly don't know, but an accident seems a lot more likely to me.