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AS the popularity of social media sleuths rises, Callum Fahim – who tried to solve the Jay Slater and Nicola Bulley cases – reveals why he does itNumerous internet sleuths went to Tenerife during the search for missing teen Jay Slater“Jack wasn’t actually missing on the date this person mentioned, so I knew straight away it was false,” says, went missing in January 2023 – the only trace of her was a mobile phone found abandoned on a riverside bench and her pet spaniel running loose –The moon...
Even after this, sleuths persevered, attempting to access details from the autopsy that had not been released by authorities.“I didn’t know Jay, but I reached out to the family and made connections with people on the island who lived there, and we all came together and searched,” he says.searched the remote area where Jay was last known to be, hiking in searing heat for any clue as to the apprentice bricklayer’s whereabouts.
"If me trying to find a missing person was going to hinder any kind of criminal investigation, of course I’d stay away.Nicola Bulley's case attracted a large number of TikTok sleuths"I think people genuinely believe that if they’re there, there’s a greater opportunity to find the missing individual. “Being involved in high-profile major crime and missing person investigations, I’ve always been concerned about unqualified so-called experts approaching families and making public statements about ongoing investigations."Unfortunately, that ‘expert’ help may not always be credible."I’m an advocate of using social media and podcasts – however, that needs to be carefully managed to ensure nothing obstructs police work.
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