The detective leading the search for Nicola Bulley—who has been missing for 20 days after vanishing while walking her dog beside a river in the north of England—has said “false information, accusations, and rumours” from the public have “distracted” the police.
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 originally said they were working on the assumption Bulley had “gone in the river” but police divers and a specialist team led by Peter Faulding, a forensic search specialist, have scoured the riverbed and failed to find her body….