Disappearance of Russell Bohling
| Russell Bohling | |
|---|---|
| Born | 29 December 1991 Hull, England |
| Disappeared | 2 March 2010 (aged 18) |
| Status | Missing for 7 years, 3 months and 3 days |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Student |
| Parent(s) | Roger and Christine Bohling |
Russell Bohling (born 29 December 1991) disappeared from Bempton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England on the 2 March 2010. Many theories have been put forward regarding his disappearance with police surmising that he either killed himself or met with an accident, whilst his family maintain that a third party was involved. Despite repeated appeals for witnesses to come forward, Bohling's disappearance remains unsolved.
On the morning of 2 March 2010, Bohling left the family home at West Ella to attend Bishop Burton College in Beverley where he was studying bricklaying. It is not known if he actually attended college that day, but his Renault Clio car was found 45 miles (72 km) away at Bempton Cliffs, near to a former Royal Air Force bunker at Bempton on the East Yorkshire coast.
His car was noted by an RSPB worker at 5:00 pm on 2 March 2010 and was still there when the worker returned the next morning. It had a ticket on it that had been paid for a full day's parking having been bought at 11:30 am the morning of 2 March.
In the initial searches of the area, the former RAF bunker was checked for a living human only, something that the family would go on to criticize. The Humberside Fire and Rescue Service (HF&RS) undertook their first search using heat-sensitive cameras and torches, which would be ineffective if Bohling was dead at that point. Firefighters went back, and as a training exercise, conducted a more detailed search of the bunker in December 2012. When this search was conducted, his family was present at the briefing and stayed there for the full three hours that the HF&RS were inside the bunker. This search cost the family £1,200 for the bunker's concrete to be opened up as it had been sealed because of illegal use.
Searches were also undertaken on land around the bunker and Bempton Cliffs which is a known suicide spot. The Coastguard also helped by searching at sea and from the air. Bohling's family later started court proceedings regarding the thoroughness of the search, but the case was thrown out when the Recorder presiding over the case said that it was not up to the courts to determine whether or not an investigation had been 'handled well'.
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