Nicola Bulley’s final text before missing mum ‘vanished into thin air’
Missing mum-of-two Nicola Bulley texted a pal to arrange a playdate minutes before she “vanished into thin air”, it has been revealed.
The 45-year-old mum of two was walking her dog in St Michael’s on Wyre, Lancashire on the morning of Friday, January 27, when she vanished. Despite an intensive police search no clues as to her whereabouts have been discovered.
It is known that she was still logged into a Microsoft Teams call which had ended at 9.30am when her phone was recovered.
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Now it transpires that just 30 minutes before she had text messaged a friend to arrange a meetup.
The Independent reported that locals at a village meeting were told that she sent the message at 8.57am, just before logging into the Teams call.
The last known sighting of Ms Bulley was at 9.10am, just 13 minutes later. Her phone and the dog’s harness were found on a bench by the river just 25 minutes later.
A professional underwater search team headed up by Peter Faulding were confident of finding Nicola "within minutes," but after a search on Monday morning (February 6) with top-of-the-range sonar equipment returned nothing, leaving the experts "baffled".
Former police officer Colin Tennant believes Nicola’s dog could provide the vital clue: “A dog can help you find the last location of its owner through its sense of smell."
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Colin, who is the director of the Cambridge Institute of Dog Behaviour and Training, and chairman of the Canine and Feline Behaviour Association, writes in The Times that a dog’s powerful sense of smell – some 10,000 times more sensitive than a human’s – enables it to identify important locations with uncanny detail.
“So it will smell the bank and keep going back to that scent. It will often migrate back to the last spot where it was with the owner because they’re its pack leader,” Colin says.
He adds that if a dog gets separated from its owner on a walk near their home the animal will go into “panic mode” and head back home because that’s where the scent of its owner is strongest.
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