I’m 90% convinced she’s in the water. I’ve followed enough missing person cases where the person has been found weeks and months later. It seems simple, a person drowns and you know the rough entry point and you’re there pretty quickly so should be easy to find, right? But it’s really not. She could have been a mile or more down the river by the time anyone got there. You could search an area with a fine tooth comb all morning, break for half an hour lunch or take a rest from the water (it’s tiring work!) and the body moves in to the area you’ve just cleared. It’s also very dark down there, murky, full of reeds, rocks and debris. She’s wearing dark clothing and hair is dark when wet and she will be discoloured by now and her skin may look darker, muddy, bloodied depending on what’s happened so it won’t be obvious it’s her unless you’re very, very close. The best chance of finding her will be from now as she will be decomposing and after 2 weeks the body produces gases which make it float, but this may be slowed down because of the temperatures as cold obviously slows things down, unless she is trapped.
There’s a small part of me, that 10% that is keeping an open mind to an alternative but I just find so many reasons why it can’t be an abduction/random murder/suicide/going off of her own free will/accident in the area but not the river. But stranger things have happened and until her body appears there are so many questions.
There’s a small part of me, that 10% that is keeping an open mind to an alternative but I just find so many reasons why it can’t be an abduction/random murder/suicide/going off of her own free will/accident in the area but not the river. But stranger things have happened and until her body appears there are so many questions.