But wouldn't a lost child find help before they collapsed? I cannot imagine one walking until they were exhausted
We don't know, there may have been reasons. 1988 was a different time.
That's a good point. As I have mentioned before, when I used to drive to/from work in my nurse uniform and I'd see a friend walking the same way I would stop the car, jump out and grab them, yelling 'Mrs Jones! You MUST have your bath!' and pretend to bundle them, protesting, into the car.Also, there are times when an uncooperative toddler/child can create a scene that could make the adult look like they're doing something awful when in fact they are just trying to get said child into the car in time to pick up a sibling from school, or similar. It's probably an incident that only gained its significance in hindsight.
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...most-likely-dead-nsw-police-commissioner-says
This is an odd case I wasn't aware of.
Here's a good rundown of the case
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/me...ing-woman-exposed/NIA7O3A2VIAHDNIJSL5XH6LPVA/
Sarm Heslop, 41, from Southampton, had been staying with her boyfriend, US citizen Ryan Bane, on the boat moored off St John in the US Virgin Islands.
Miss Heslop is known to have gone for dinner with Mr Bane on Sunday, 7 March in St John.
It was understood she had returned to the yacht and gone to bed.
Her possessions, including her bank cards and mobile phone, were still onboard when she vanished.
Virgin Islands Police Department said: "Investigators cannot confirm with certainty, if and when Ms Heslop boarded the Siren Song on March 7."
VIPD said the investigation into Ms Heslop's disappearance was being assisted by the FBI and police in the UK, who were "finding and interviewing witnesses".
I think i read the delay was not in the reporting of the person but the seach and rescue operation being launched.Woman disappeared from yacht in Caribbean
There was an apparent 9 hour delay in her being reported missing.
Police have said they are unsure if a British woman reported missing from a yacht in the Caribbean was onboard.
I think i read the delay was not in the reporting of the person but the seach and rescue operation being launched
"Police said US citizen Mr Bane reported her missing at 02:30 local time.
Friends said they could not fathom why the coastguard was only informed at about noon the same day."
Yes that is suspicious and apparently hes disappeared now aswellYou're right - Ryan Bane reported her missing 02.30 local time [to the police?] but the coastguard was only informed at noon the same day. He's apparently refused police requests to search the boat.
And I hope they get them. This was one of my 'pet' cases, so many inconsistencies and strangenesses in the story, yet such a tragic end.Family of cyclist Anthony Parsons ‘still need answers’ as they lay him to rest
https://www.clydebankpost.co.uk/new...-anthony-parsons-still-need-answers-lay-rest/
This is the last, previous information released.I haven't read any details as to where he was found - by a roadside, covered up, buried?.. Or whether he'd been hit by a vehicle..
Latest news on cyclist Tony Parsons.
Tony Parsons: 'Devastated' family's plea for information over cyclist's death
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-56111881
Likewise, it’s a case I’ve taken a keen interest in.
My recollection is that he was somehow found because of the bike, or was that speculation?I believe I read somewhere that the remains were buried but as far as I know the police have not publicly indicated whether or not his bike has ever been found. Likewise, it’s a case I’ve taken a keen interest in.
I was under the impression that his bike is still missingMy recollection is that he was somehow found because of the bike, or was that speculation?
Perhaps the bike was like what the dog did in the night: the dog did nothing. It was dead giveaway.I was under the impression that his bike is still missing
I think that was the idea yesPerhaps the bike was like what the dog did in the night: the dog did nothing. It was dead giveaway.
Maybe the bike wasn't mentioned by the police because there was hope it would turn up somewhere and give a clue to the missing man's whereabouts.
To be fair, this might have come out of my very own head.I think that was the idea yes
This is what some believed happened to little Ben Needham when he went missing on Kos. Searches were mainly done in the direction he was expected to have known best, which was downhill towards town, rather than uphill to an undeveloped area.People underestimate the walking power of children. Even small children can cover quite a distance.
In these modern times we tend to have our opinion coloured by the fact that a lot of children don't walk very far and are usually carted around in cars or buggies and will, in fact, complain, moan, whine, whinge and tantrum about being asked to walk 300 yards down the road to the nearest park.
But they can, physically, go a really long way. Ask any mother trying to manage a toddler in a busy shopping centre (lockdown permitting, obviously).
Yes, I just don't understand why search parties for small children tend to do the 'oh, he/she wouldn't/couldn't have gone very far, he/she never liked being away from home'. Show even a small child something they want to get to (a pony, a dog, a tractor) and they can get much further than anyone would think.This is what some believed happened to little Ben Needham when he went missing on Kos. Searches were mainly done in the direction he was expected to have known best, which was downhill towards town, rather than uphill to an undeveloped area.
Seemed reasonable to me because as you say, little kids on a mission can cover quite a distance.
Sadly it seems Ben only wandered a few hundred yards across to a nearby building site where he was accidentally run over and then buried by panicking builders.
Oh lawdy, yeah, been there, done that.Yes, I just don't understand why search parties for small children tend to do the 'oh, he/she wouldn't/couldn't have gone very far, he/she never liked being away from home'. Show even a small child something they want to get to (a pony, a dog, a tractor) and they can get much further than anyone would think.
I lost Daughter One at the beach once. It was October half term and a friend with one child and me with my five, had gone to Scarborough North Bay to give them a run on the sand. We'd just got out of the car at the top of the cliff and done a head count, and my eldest daughter wasn't there. After a moment's panic (and trying to remember whether she'd come with us in the first place) one of the children said she had run on down to the beach. By the time we got down to the beach, she was in the water, swimming. She will have been about eight. It was OCTOBER! But the draw to water for her was such that she couldn't wait and once on the beach she 'needed' to be swimming.
If (heaven forbid) she had drowned and been carried out to sea, her disappearance may well have remained a mystery.
A kid at a playgroup I helped run used to hide. A couple of times people were there long after the place had closed, still looking for him, and the police were about to be called before he was found.And also there's the psychology of children. They run and hide because they think it will be funny. Mum searches, in increasing desperation, and sounds angry, so child stays hidden. The search widens, everyone sounds really worried and cross, so child thinks 'I'm going to be in trouble. I'll just go home and wait there until it's all over'. Tries to make their own way home, sometimes from several miles away and something bad happens.
Children very much live in the moment. They literally cannot think ahead and think 'that might be a silly thing to do'. They do it first and then find out it was a silly thing to do. Saying 'Be Careful' to a child never ever worked...
They would if I turned up.I imagine kids these days have no idea what "a good hiding" means...