UK serviceman still missing after disappearing in village three months ago

a reply to: LABTECH767

The main mystery is that he wandered into that alcove at 0325 surrounded by CCTV and the cameras did not see him come out or again. After many months of police work and other investigations no clue has appeared, all the doors and premises have been checked, the bin lorry and driver has been checked and discounted . From 0325 until 4pm all vehicles have been logged and checked. The six people of interest are now down to 2 an old guy and the Guy on the Bike they were just on some CCTV around the time and may have seen something ? The police now have some names and are investigating.



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Edit..Only one left to name is the old guy..

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The people who should'nt have been in the building with the white gate is bugging me. I have a theory.

Corrie saw some guys standing in the horseshoe and went over, or was called over and went to them and went with them into the building for whatever reason, does'nt matter what reason, he's a friendly guy and drunk remember. Then...

1) He was then mugged, with a struggle that ended badly.

OR

2) Fell asleep, possibly after taking a spiked drink (eg GHB) and died after a bad reaction or heart attack.

His body was then removed from the area in a vehicle the NEXT night, under cover of the dark, and is now dumped/hidden/buried at an unknown location. His phone WAS in the bin, with the people from the building knowing the binmen would be there in the morning, the phone has now left the area on the wagon.

And after all that, it could be that he never went in to the building, but bought or was given a jacket by someone from the building to use as a blanket, or just to keep warm, talked for a bit, went to sleep again, then left the area later with the jacket on, therefore hiding the pink shirt.

Sorry for my morbid theories, i really do hope he is still alive, people do leave the country all the time and go to Spain or wherever to start a new life or to hide from authorities.

Reddit has a few Corrie discussion running that are interesting reading. Not painting quite the clean picture..

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Wow I'm surprised I haven't heard of this yet. Kind of reminds me of all those people that go missing in the national parks. Time to do some research

The police have stated that they will now search the local landfill at Milton near to where the phone last pinged I presume ? it will take a team ten weeks to complete the search.. I am sure the workers at this site would have smelled a decaying human body if in fact he ended up being dumped ?

Detectives looking for missing airman Corrie Mckeague are to search a landfill site. The RAF serviceman vanished after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on 24 September. A bin lorry made a collection in the area a short time after the last sighting of the 23-year-old. Det Supt Katie Elliott said searching the site in Milton, Cambridgeshire, was "the next logical step." LIVE: Updates on this and other Suffolk news Police will begin the search of more than 920 square metres of waste on 22 February. It is expected to take a team of specialist officers up to 10 weeks to complete.

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a reply to: skywatcher44

I am sure the workers at this site would have smelled a decaying human body if in fact he ended up being dumped ?

Not at a tip like that , I've been to them in my work and you wouldn't smell anything other than the smell.

This is a sad development but the arrows seem to be pointing in that direction , perhaps he decided to kip in one of the bins.

a reply to: gortex

He did not seem drunk enough to consider repose within a garbage container a wise move, if his movements just prior to entering the yard were anything to go by. Normally, and I speak with some significant experience of drunkeness here, that stage sets in right around the "Oh, I have fallen over, and damn me for a fool, I cannot seem to get up. Oh well, best kip here then" phase of drunkenness. That phase is usually preceded immediately by the "This walking malarkey is really hard this evening. All these side steps keep stopping my forward progress!" phase. It usually shows up very well on camera.

originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: skywatcher44

I am sure the workers at this site would have smelled a decaying human body if in fact he ended up being dumped ?

Not at a tip like that , I've been to them in my work and you wouldn't smell anything other than the smell.

This is a sad development but the arrows seem to be pointing in that direction , perhaps he decided to kip in one of the bins.

I've woke in some strange places in my time after a heavy night on the lash but at no point would i even consider sleeping in a bin.

a reply to: TrueBrit

If his body is found at the tip that would mean he had to have been in the bin , as I'm aware there is CCTV coverage of the area he went into and it's a dead end so if he's been mugged surely the mugger or muggers would have been filmed leaving the way he came in.

a reply to: Soloprotocol

I've woke in some strange places in my time after a heavy night on the lash but at no point would i even consider sleeping in a bin.

Depends what's in there , if it was full of nice warm comfy cardboard it wouldn't be so bad.

Thoughts to his family and the police officers who have to conduct the search.

So they are going to start the search after 5 months and it will take nearly 3 months to complete? Should have been done when they got a triangulation of the last signal from his phone.

I'm not sure they'll be looking for a body, probably looking more for his phone, clothing/shoes, or items like his car keys or other personal possessions.

There are just so many things that dont add up about this case its ridiculous.

I still think the people that should'nt have been in that building with the white gate know something, but will they be requestioned? I think now might be a good time to catch up with them wherever they are now, they must have taken names of them etc.

a reply to: Moohide

The trouble with a cadaver search after this amount of time, is that unless the body has literally been buried in something like Earth, carrion animals will have had at it, rain will have been at it, and the chances are that it would have skeletonised by now to some significant degree, especially sitting atop a pile of rotting garbage. The proximity to external sources of bacteria would have sped up the breakdown process, despite the colder temperatures.

The facebook page has an update from his Mother worth a read..

Nicola Urquhart 4 hrs UPDATE 10th Feb Please take time to read this full update. Carrying out this search is a massive task. And our gratitude to each individual police officer carrying out this task is immeasurable. This could take up to 8 weeks to conclude, it will be an incredibly difficult time waiting for news each day. Please do not start discussing publicly on this page any theories about anyone being responsible for any possible wrong doing. At this time Corrie is missing, this is one major lead that the police are looking at but as they have told us today. All other possibilities are still being looked into. For all your continued support myself, Makeyan, Darroch and our family cannot ever thank you enough x x x Police will be carrying out a search at a landfill site in Milton in Cambridgeshire as part of ongoing enquiries to try to discover what has happened to missing Corrie McKeague. Since the start of the investigation police have been working through all possibilities in an ongoing bid to discover where Corrie is. The work has been prioritised with the most likely scenarios being examined in detail and other possibilities also being explored. One of these lines of enquiry has been in respect of waste collections from the area, known as the horseshoe, around the time of the last sighting of Corrie. It was known, and CCTV shows, that a waste lorry made a collection in the area a short time after the last confirmed sighting of Corrie and the lorry was seized in the early stages of the enquiry for forensic examination. This did not reveal any traces of him, however the waste collection has been one line of enquiry police have persisted with and kept under constant review. Throughout the investigation a search of the site has been a consideration as police have worked through the possible options as to what may have happened to Corrie, with officers looking at the feasibility and logistics of carrying out this search. The area of the landfill site where waste collected from Bury St Edmunds that morning was deposited has not had further items put onto it since police alerted the site, early in the investigation, to the possibility that this may need to be searched. The search will be a considerable task. The area identified is more than 920 square metres of waste down to a maximum depth of eight metres and it is estimated that it is likely take a team of specialist search trained police officers six to ten weeks to complete the work required. The safety and welfare of the officers who will undertake the search and the noise and odour implications for local residents have all been factors that police have to take into consideration. On-site preparatory work is already underway and the full scale search likely to commence around Wednesday 22 February once this initial work has been completed. The preparation will include building access ways to the area to be searched, carrying out scoping work, and putting appropriate facilities on the site to allow this search to be carried out in a thorough and comprehensive way. Detectives investigating the case have kept an open mind from the start as to what may have occurred to Corrie and have been working to confirm why and how he went missing. This has involved a systematic examination of the possible options including using CCTV, phone and social media analysis, searches, media appeals, talking to those who had contact with Corrie, investigating his background and social life and tracing those who were out in Bury St Edmunds at the time of the last sighting – 3.25am on Saturday 24 September. Corrie was reported as missing to Suffolk Police at around 3.40pm on Monday 26 September by RAF Honington, having not reported for duty. At that stage the last time he had been seen was 2am on Saturday 24. Work immediately began to try and find him. Police formally publicised him as missing in the early hours of Tuesday 27 September, after basic checks had been carried out. Since then thousands of hours of police time have been spent on carrying out hundreds of enquiries to try and find him. The work carried out by Suffolk Police has been reviewed by other constabularies and a variety of other organisations have helped in the searches and investigation, including the RAF and Suffolk Lowland Search and Rescue. Detective Superintendent Katie Elliott said; “This is the next logical step in the investigation. Behind the scenes we have been working systematically through the options and we have examined a very broad range of evidence. This has involved an extensive examination of CCTV, phone and social media analysis, searches, media appeals, talking to those who had contact with Corrie, investigating his background and social life and tracing those who were out in Bury St Edmunds at the time of the last sighting – 3.25am on Saturday 24 September. “Preparation work is already underway for the search and this will be progressed as quickly as possible. There are some measures that we need to put in place before the full search work starts as, in addition to the pressing need to find Corrie, we also have to consider local residents, site workers and the officers who will be carrying out the job of going through the waste. “We know that physically searching the site has the potential to cause an increase in odour and we hope residents will understand that we and the site owners have taken this into consideration when making a decision to go ahead with the search. However we also hope they will understand why we are doing this as part of our continuing investigation to find Corrie. “We need to find him and discover what happened to him. While the search may not provide the answers as to what happened it is something we need to do as our investigation continues.” Police are liaising with Corrie’s family to keep them informed about what is planned, and will also be working to let residents in the area know why the work is being carried out. Anyone with information about his disappearance is asked to call the incident room at Suffolk Police on 01473 782019.

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I read earlier in this thread that these were pay bins. As I understood it, there were no deposits made at that timeframe for the mass and weight of a normal human body.
Still, dismemberment might be involved. ( I realize the UK doesn"t have the scope of demented everyday killers that we here in the US enjoy, ) It could be your own citizen x or just an enthusiastic amature.

A real downer.

VF

a reply to: VenatiusFortunatus

The one bin emptied in the early morning of the disappearance was a pay bin containing cans and plastic bottles, that particular bin was forensically searched along with the lorry that collected it, that bin went to a re-cycling center and not to Landfill. There are other bins in the area that were not emptied on the day of disappearance although I hope they were cursory searched
I presume some of these bins may have ended up in the landfill site ?

A little bit of an update as Police are preparing the landfill site for a search a person ( Man ) has been arrested for an attempt to pervert the course of justice. This is not the bin Lorry driver or any member of corries family so it will be interesting to find out who and why he has been now arrested ?

Police looking for airman Corrie Mckeague have arrested a man on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice. The 23-year-old, from Dunfermline, Fife, went missing on a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, last year. A 26-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday. The man is not the driver of the bin lorry which collected refuse from the area where Mr Mckeague was last seen, Suffolk Police said. He is not related to the missing gunner, who was based at RAF Honington, the force confirmed.

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Never seen that coming...Thanks for the update.

The arrested guy has now been bailed.. No end to this disappearance for now..

A 26-year-old man arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice has now been bailed to return to police in April. The 26-year-old was arrested earlier today, Wednesday 1 March, and was taken into custody where he was interviewed on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice relating to information provided to the continuing Corrie McKeague missing person investigation. The man is not the driver of the bin lorry which collected refuse from the area where Corrie was last seen and is not related to Corrie. Following the interview, he has now been bailed to return to police on April 13, while further enquiries are made.

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The arrested Guy ?

THE man arrested in the hunt for missing RAF gunner Corrie McKeague served as a part-time cop — and works for the waste firm at the centre of the investigation, it can be revealed. Haydn Stephens, commended for his role as a Special Constable, was quizzed on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

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Case get's more bizarre by the day.

The 26-year-old is a traffic dispatcher for waste management company Biffa

a reply to: Soloprotocol

How bizarre.

So, what do we think led to this mans arrest? Did he fail to alert authorities to something going on with one of the trucks he directed? Did the lads on the lorry find a body, and he covered it up somehow? How, precisely, is he supposed to have perverted the course of justice from his dispatch office? And furthermore, why would he have done that, given that he is apparently a special constable? Surely he should have known better than that?