Police have confirmed that the body found in the River Wyre on Sunday was that of Nicola Bulley, who went missing three weeks ago after walking her dog along the riverbank.
Bulley, 45, was last seen on the morning of Jan. 27 as she walked her cocker spaniel, Willow, beside the River Wyre in Lancashire.
She had just dropped her two young daughters off at a primary school in the village of St Michael’s on Wyre.
Lancashire Police always said they suspected that Bulley had “gone in the river,” but police divers and a specialist team led by Peter Faulding—a forensic search specialist—scoured the riverbed and failed to find her body….