Fucking hell..If someone bangs there head,there may well be a bruise or a mark but not to the extent of blunt force trauma-where someone stoves your head in with a bat or other implement.
Has been posted but a ways back. Some similarities for sure. (Barring the smiley face part). I grew up near La Crosse, WI where most of this has taken place, so this is all eerily familiar and interesting to me.
My brother, Michael Turner, was found dead in the river Irk on July 28 2012. He was last seen on cctv on July 20 2012. He had a drug problem in the past. He had been clean for 18 months. He was actually on a methadone programme. He started at 80ml and he was down to 34ml, he was almost ready to be weaned off the methadone. He was on his way up. His post mortem was inconclusive to a cause of death, like 98% of the men found in rivers in the past 7 years. There were NO drugs in his blood and alcohol found his blood was well below the drink drive limit. There has been NO appeal for witnesses as apparently there is NO specific dates!!!!!! July 20 & July 28 are obviously not specific dates!!!! He also had a bike which was 4-6 weeks old, never to be seen again, even though he is seen leaving his flat with it on cctv. He had left his mobile & cigarettes in his flat, and a half eaten sandwich. Though he was found with £5 in his pocket. If he intended to kill himself, why take £5? Bus fare to Heaven? Plus, Mike had picked up his perscription for his Methodone for the weekend on the day he was last seen. If he wanted to kill himself would it not of been easier to drink all of that, it would of been enough to kill him, rather than go to the lowest part of the river Irk!!!!! Mike was 43, but there are too many inconsistencies around his death, like the numerous other poor souls found in Manchesters rivers & canals. I will not rest until I find out what happened to him!!!
That quote makes some very interesting points. Where is the bike? How did he end up in the canal - he wasn't on drugs and was under the drink drive limit. Why pick up the prescription if he was going to chuck himself into the river?
Below is a map of the areas where bodies were found within the city centre. What stood out for me was 11 and 12 - 26Y/O M and a 20 - 30Y/O F - discovered within the space of 6 days in virtually the same location.
Also, if it is those making their way home from a night out, the majority of them have made it some distance from the centre.
City centre areas -
1) Nathan Tomlinson – Male – 21Y/O – Disappeared 17 December, 2010 – Discovered February 10, 2011 – River Irwell, near the Adelphi Bridge.
2) NOT PLACED -CAN SOMEONE LOCATE. Gurdeep Hayer – Male – 20Y/O – Disappeared 2 January, 2012 – Discovered 10 January, 2012 – River Medlock, near York Street
3) Chris Brahney – Male – 22Y/O – Disappeared 29 June, 2012 – Discovered 9 July, 2012 – Manchester Ship Canal, close to MediaCityUK.
4) Michael Turner – Male – 43Y/O – Disappeared 20 July, 2012 – Discovered 28 July, 2012 – River Irk, Batty Street, Cheetham Hill.
The Lass O Gowrie pub is on Charles Street and the River Medlock on York Street is quite close by, near Oxford Road, so No2 is that curly blue bit on your map. (Conclusion)
From that map there's no danger from the Ashton Canal, so we're all safe to stagger home drunk if we live on this side of town.
Most canals are 3 -4 feet deep. The vast majority have also been cleaned out,dredged in rejuvenation schemes etc. Its quite surprising how shallow they are. I reckon if you fell in,you'd easily walk out,pissed or not. Definitely no need for swimming.
Some of the rivers though,especially at ceratin times of the year,would be swollen from flooding etc. I'd expect some of the bodies to be bashed up on the rocks and weirs though,which is not mentioned in any of the reports.
The media silence speaks volumes, in my opinion. The amount of deaths on canals we've had in the past couple of years is swiftly stacking up, and not only that, it almost always appears to be the same scenario. A bloke goes missing for a while, usually on the way home from a night out, only to turn up in the canal some days later. Cause of death? Either 'unexplained' or 'no suspicious circumstances', as with the latest one. Now either there's a lot of suicidal men around or someone's bumping them off. None of this sits right with me at all and I've been thinking it for well over a year now.
Even if the deaths are genuine accidents - Bloke gets pissed, gets lost on the way home, falls in the canal and can't get out, drowns - even if that is the case and, let's face it, it could be, there are still a lot of deaths on canals. Which begs a few questions: 1) If these are simply suicides or accidents, why have they increased dramatically in the last few years? Why can't I remember such a spate of accidents in canals from the last decade, or the nineties. the eighties, the seventies etc? The frequency of these deaths should not be common at all, even in a city full of canals, yet they are now. So why? 2) If they are genuine accidents, why aren't the media still discussing it? Surely the proportion of deaths on canals - if not murders - should raise a few eyebrows as to how safe Manchester's waterways really are. Why aren't more people talking about it in the media? 3) If they are suicides (which I doubt), there are lots of much easier ways to kill yourself than by drowning.
How easy would it be for a killer to pick up lone males, perhaps vulnerable lone males after a few beers, and knock them out before doing what he wants to do with them and dumping them in a canal in the early hours when there's virtually no one about? It might sound ridiculous but not many people would have believed a GP could go about killing pensioners at will until it happened.
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