Volunteer water search teams offer to help trace missing Peter Baglin as 'social media detectives' emerge online
01.03.2023 - 23:37
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Kind-hearted volunteer water search teams have offered a hand in the ongoing efforts to trace missing Salford grandad Peter Baglin. The 55-year-old, from Boothstown, vanished nine weeks ago after going out for an evening walk on December 28. He was last seen on CCTV cameras in a local petrol station, on the East Lancashire Road, buying a small bottle of whiskey.
Since Peter's sudden disappearance, police and the local community have undertaken huge search operations, including in the Bridgewater Canal and woodland near his home and much further afield. To this date, there have still been no confirmed sightings or leads, leaving his heartbroken wife Michelle and family in turmoil.
And as was seen in the case of tragic mum Nicola Bulley, who went missing in Lancashire before her body was pulled from the River Wyre, self-proclaimed 'social media detectives' have emerged, sharing their own views on what they believe may have happened to Peter in Youtube videos and comments.
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In one video uploaded to Youtube, one user called the case of missing Peter 'strange' and shared their own suspicions that they believed a 'third party' may have been involved.
Lancashire Police had previously slammed a number TikTok sleuths regularly seen filming near the location of where Nicola Bulley was last seen who had shared conspiracies in posts online. It prompted police to implement dispersal orders in the area and council chiefs to slam acts of 'social media idiocy'.
Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, Michelle Baglin, who has been with husband Pete for almost 30 years, said the emerging online speculation was 'not helpful' - but that she