Yep as I suspected they knew the police would release that information and mostly had to consent to it.
The onslaught from armchair detectives and the media has been relentless to the point it’s actually impacting the investigation.
Some people need to get a grip and touch grass
The amount of speculation around this, just because people love a conspiracy and a gossip is appalling. This is a real person, with a family, during an active missing person investigation.
People need to learn some respect.
I thought the theory people were pushing, was foul play. Not self harm.
The more out of hand this case gets, the more glad I am that social media wasn’t big when Maddie McCann went missing. That would have been insane
I opened the comments section on a Facebook article about this poor lady a while ago and my god, the things people were saying about her family and her husband. Speculation that her husband was responsible etc, what is wrong with the people posting this shit and using it as entertainment? Imagine her loved ones reading it
Hardly surprising, there are a lot of people treating this as an episode of Midsomer Murders or The Bill, with a sprinkling of mistrust of the police to add insult to injury, including the media (yes that includes the BBC who are a bit too excited with this).
There are too many people interested in this with an empathy deficit who are clearly bored little individuals either hampering search efforts on one side or making crass remarks which are neither helpful nor needed on the other.
The police know what they are doing. It’s very much a standard missing persons procedure.
The media will move on eventually once their sadistic excitement simmers down, hopefully the public will shut up soon as they’re worse.
Facilitated and fuelled entirely by the press, including the BBC. Daily push notifications about the absolute minutiae of the case have not helped, instead making it feel like it’s everyone’s business and that “you too can help solve this case”.
Ongoing investigations should not be reported on like this, it’s completely destructive.
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The part that tickles me is where yesterday the media were spreading personal stuff about her, and today the police were being bollocked by the media for revealing it.
Like OK, the police shouldn’t have revealed it, but the reason the whole country now knows has less to do with the police and more to do with the fucking media.
I would be embarrassed af if my drinking habits and personal issues were on the front page of the newspaper.
But oh no, don’t blame them, blame the police. After all, every single word is *inevitably* going to get broadcast in bold type; that’s not even *remotely* a decision made by journalists and their editors, oh no.
You literally pushed us all a notification yesterday about a problem with alcohol. Check yourselves out.
The water recovery expert mouthing off to the press and contradicting his police colleagues has not exactly helped.
Wouldn’t be surprised if some in the media were going to run the story about her personal problems in the next few days forcing the police and family to release the information in advance.
The press are the pits. Then social media regurgitates it
Why have the media latched on to this missing woman so much?
I’m starting to believe that the invention of the internet was detrimental for the human race.
I big into my true crime and didn’t really know too much about the case so when a video came up in my YouTube recommendations about it yesterday I gave it a watch. I then proceeded to check out the guys channel and it was full of videos about it. Putting almost two videos out a day since she went missing covering all his crazy theories and ‘mistakes’ by police. It was really sad.
Blame the public but not the press.
There will always be some public speculation, but this should have never received more reporting than “shes missing” – “they searched the lake” – “shes not in the lake please come forward if you have any information”
That simple.
Social media influencers and arm chair detectives are a problem, but this case was publicised and made so big everywhere in the UK to the point where its not surprise this happened.
Blame the press.
Social media thinking it cares more than the Police does, and is making more of an effort.
When in reality they just make it much worse to the point were Police have to put out personal info just to stop Social Media speculation and Media stories.
Felt sick when I read the statement about her vulnerabilities. But of course nobody on social media will see it as their fault this had to be realised. Just another thing to hate the Police about.
Nick Ferrari and his ilk this morning calling the Cops “Idiots” and “keystone cops”.
If you present a mystery to the public, and do it repeatedly with it appearing in the news for days, then the public are going to speculate. Why act surprised? You can choose not to read that speculation. You can’t expect the public to be both engaged and interested but not to speculate.
I don’t really understand why this case is so interesting…
Like, don’t people go missing every week??
Sometimes they ran off with a lover… Sometimes they went into the woods never to be seen again… Sometimes they went abroad with no plan to ever return… Sometimes they were just starting a new life with a new identity in a new city…
Maybe the media could start by dropping the daily+ updates from their news cycle….
if they could stop doing insane push notifications for the smallest things that would help. This is fueled by the media. BBC included
The media circus around this has been crazy. It needs to stop
Too many people (armchair detectives) think watching CSI, Crimnal minds etc. makes them experts on investigation of criminal cases. It just doesn’t work like on the TV in real life.
Media speculation much more than public speculation.
Good luck with that. People will see this and now begin to speculate that the reason for the family saying this is that they did and do not want to risk being caught themselves.
Every day this “don’t speculate” news story reappears it just creates bunch of social media threads containing speculation.
Face it, we’re bought into it now. We want to know what happened as much as the family do.
It’s like Uma Thurman says in Pulp Fiction “That’s an impossibility. Trying to forget anything as intriguing as this would be an exercise in futility.”
Unfortunately this is the word we live in now!
People shouldn’t care what its said on the Internet anyway you’re always gonna get Douchebags!
It’s boring. She’s gone. Why not the media coverage for all the other adults and kids thst go missing.
Missing white woman syndrome.
I watched the press conference and it all went well except where the SIO made a complete FU. The minute she said she was high risk because of specific vulnerabilities i thought she had blown it. If she hadn’t said that then the press wouldn’t have done their thing and made it an issue.
That bit of the statement added nothing to the investigation and just showed how the team isn’t media savvy in any way. If she hadn’t said that then the family wouldn’t have needed to agree to releasing a statement on what the vulnerabilities were and avoided all this.
The Police did mess up big time but only because they let someone do the talking who got it 95% right but that one statement made everything much worse.
The police need a press secretary or something similar to ensure the right information is presented without adding in things like this.
Wonder if there’s any Alex Jones types who will say the family is in on it.
As if people’s interest in the “true crime” fad wasn’t cringeworthy enough, now this shite.
What I don’t understand is, thousands of people go missing across the UK every year, including children. But this one has been reported on massively.
I mean, people are like sheep honestly. Twitter and Facebook comment sections are seriously something that I think ultimately would lead an alien species to decide to exterminate us rather than coexist lol
You see some random article from some source no one bothers to check, and people just read the title and then make up their minds that their conclusion to what they just read is 100% the one and only right conclusion and will go as far as wishing death on others for not agreeing with them. It’s a fucking miricle that we as a species have weapons of mass destruction and are still alive lol
Of course they would say that, the husband did it and the sister was involved. Why else would she be living with him, or helping him. I even saw a slight mouth movement from them that if you paused on that exact moment it kinda looks like a smile. /s
People are fucking insane, social media is just full of people desperately trying to be right with the most outlandish explanations.
The Police Force is under public scrutiny for good reasons.
A lot of people seem to have such uninteresting lives they’ve taken to coming up with wild conspiracies about what happened to her. This is both insulting and stupid at the same time. It’s better to reserve comment and simply read what’s happening.
But people will just react to what’s being reported, as it’s being reported.
I think people saying “why is she getting this much attention, why does nobody care about other missing people, million of people are missing” don’t fully understand what comes under the umbrella of missing.
The vast, vast majority of missing people are children abducted by parents in custody disputes, teenage runaways, elderly people and people with severe mental health or substance issues – and the majority are found within hours or days.
This is a woman who seemingly disappeared into thing air on a walk. She was a 45-year-old mother on a work call, so people feel as though they can relate to her or can see her in someone they know. If she was a working-class woman and it had been publicised from the beginning she had severe mental health or drug problems, this wouldn’t have received 90% of the attention it did. That’s why people are so invested in this case in particular.
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Yep as I suspected they knew the police would release that information and mostly had to consent to it.
The onslaught from armchair detectives and the media has been relentless to the point it’s actually impacting the investigation.
Some people need to get a grip and touch grass
The amount of speculation around this, just because people love a conspiracy and a gossip is appalling. This is a real person, with a family, during an active missing person investigation.
People need to learn some respect.
I thought the theory people were pushing, was foul play. Not self harm.
The more out of hand this case gets, the more glad I am that social media wasn’t big when Maddie McCann went missing. That would have been insane
I opened the comments section on a Facebook article about this poor lady a while ago and my god, the things people were saying about her family and her husband. Speculation that her husband was responsible etc, what is wrong with the people posting this shit and using it as entertainment? Imagine her loved ones reading it
Hardly surprising, there are a lot of people treating this as an episode of Midsomer Murders or The Bill, with a sprinkling of mistrust of the police to add insult to injury, including the media (yes that includes the BBC who are a bit too excited with this).
There are too many people interested in this with an empathy deficit who are clearly bored little individuals either hampering search efforts on one side or making crass remarks which are neither helpful nor needed on the other.
The police know what they are doing. It’s very much a standard missing persons procedure.
The media will move on eventually once their sadistic excitement simmers down, hopefully the public will shut up soon as they’re worse.
Facilitated and fuelled entirely by the press, including the BBC. Daily push notifications about the absolute minutiae of the case have not helped, instead making it feel like it’s everyone’s business and that “you too can help solve this case”.
Ongoing investigations should not be reported on like this, it’s completely destructive.
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The part that tickles me is where yesterday the media were spreading personal stuff about her, and today the police were being bollocked by the media for revealing it.
Like OK, the police shouldn’t have revealed it, but the reason the whole country now knows has less to do with the police and more to do with the fucking media.
I would be embarrassed af if my drinking habits and personal issues were on the front page of the newspaper.
But oh no, don’t blame them, blame the police. After all, every single word is *inevitably* going to get broadcast in bold type; that’s not even *remotely* a decision made by journalists and their editors, oh no.
You literally pushed us all a notification yesterday about a problem with alcohol. Check yourselves out.
The water recovery expert mouthing off to the press and contradicting his police colleagues has not exactly helped.
Wouldn’t be surprised if some in the media were going to run the story about her personal problems in the next few days forcing the police and family to release the information in advance.
The press are the pits. Then social media regurgitates it
Why have the media latched on to this missing woman so much?
I’m starting to believe that the invention of the internet was detrimental for the human race.
I big into my true crime and didn’t really know too much about the case so when a video came up in my YouTube recommendations about it yesterday I gave it a watch. I then proceeded to check out the guys channel and it was full of videos about it. Putting almost two videos out a day since she went missing covering all his crazy theories and ‘mistakes’ by police. It was really sad.
Blame the public but not the press.
There will always be some public speculation, but this should have never received more reporting than “shes missing” – “they searched the lake” – “shes not in the lake please come forward if you have any information”
That simple.
Social media influencers and arm chair detectives are a problem, but this case was publicised and made so big everywhere in the UK to the point where its not surprise this happened.
Blame the press.
Social media thinking it cares more than the Police does, and is making more of an effort.
When in reality they just make it much worse to the point were Police have to put out personal info just to stop Social Media speculation and Media stories.
Felt sick when I read the statement about her vulnerabilities. But of course nobody on social media will see it as their fault this had to be realised. Just another thing to hate the Police about.
Nick Ferrari and his ilk this morning calling the Cops “Idiots” and “keystone cops”.
If you present a mystery to the public, and do it repeatedly with it appearing in the news for days, then the public are going to speculate. Why act surprised? You can choose not to read that speculation. You can’t expect the public to be both engaged and interested but not to speculate.
I don’t really understand why this case is so interesting…
Like, don’t people go missing every week??
Sometimes they ran off with a lover… Sometimes they went into the woods never to be seen again… Sometimes they went abroad with no plan to ever return… Sometimes they were just starting a new life with a new identity in a new city…
Maybe the media could start by dropping the daily+ updates from their news cycle….
if they could stop doing insane push notifications for the smallest things that would help. This is fueled by the media. BBC included
The media circus around this has been crazy. It needs to stop
Too many people (armchair detectives) think watching CSI, Crimnal minds etc. makes them experts on investigation of criminal cases. It just doesn’t work like on the TV in real life.
Media speculation much more than public speculation.
Good luck with that. People will see this and now begin to speculate that the reason for the family saying this is that they did and do not want to risk being caught themselves.
Every day this “don’t speculate” news story reappears it just creates bunch of social media threads containing speculation.
Face it, we’re bought into it now. We want to know what happened as much as the family do.
It’s like Uma Thurman says in Pulp Fiction “That’s an impossibility. Trying to forget anything as intriguing as this would be an exercise in futility.”
Unfortunately this is the word we live in now!
People shouldn’t care what its said on the Internet anyway you’re always gonna get Douchebags!
It’s boring. She’s gone. Why not the media coverage for all the other adults and kids thst go missing.
Missing white woman syndrome.
I watched the press conference and it all went well except where the SIO made a complete FU. The minute she said she was high risk because of specific vulnerabilities i thought she had blown it. If she hadn’t said that then the press wouldn’t have done their thing and made it an issue.
That bit of the statement added nothing to the investigation and just showed how the team isn’t media savvy in any way. If she hadn’t said that then the family wouldn’t have needed to agree to releasing a statement on what the vulnerabilities were and avoided all this.
The Police did mess up big time but only because they let someone do the talking who got it 95% right but that one statement made everything much worse.
The police need a press secretary or something similar to ensure the right information is presented without adding in things like this.
Wonder if there’s any Alex Jones types who will say the family is in on it.
As if people’s interest in the “true crime” fad wasn’t cringeworthy enough, now this shite.
What I don’t understand is, thousands of people go missing across the UK every year, including children. But this one has been reported on massively.
I mean, people are like sheep honestly. Twitter and Facebook comment sections are seriously something that I think ultimately would lead an alien species to decide to exterminate us rather than coexist lol
You see some random article from some source no one bothers to check, and people just read the title and then make up their minds that their conclusion to what they just read is 100% the one and only right conclusion and will go as far as wishing death on others for not agreeing with them. It’s a fucking miricle that we as a species have weapons of mass destruction and are still alive lol
Of course they would say that, the husband did it and the sister was involved. Why else would she be living with him, or helping him. I even saw a slight mouth movement from them that if you paused on that exact moment it kinda looks like a smile. /s
People are fucking insane, social media is just full of people desperately trying to be right with the most outlandish explanations.
The Police Force is under public scrutiny for good reasons.
A lot of people seem to have such uninteresting lives they’ve taken to coming up with wild conspiracies about what happened to her. This is both insulting and stupid at the same time. It’s better to reserve comment and simply read what’s happening.
But people will just react to what’s being reported, as it’s being reported.
I think people saying “why is she getting this much attention, why does nobody care about other missing people, million of people are missing” don’t fully understand what comes under the umbrella of missing.
The vast, vast majority of missing people are children abducted by parents in custody disputes, teenage runaways, elderly people and people with severe mental health or substance issues – and the majority are found within hours or days.
This is a woman who seemingly disappeared into thing air on a walk. She was a 45-year-old mother on a work call, so people feel as though they can relate to her or can see her in someone they know. If she was a working-class woman and it had been publicised from the beginning she had severe mental health or drug problems, this wouldn’t have received 90% of the attention it did. That’s why people are so invested in this case in particular.