When missing people don’t want to be found: ‘I’d removed myself to push the world away’

What happens if you decide to disappear – then find yourself plastered over the internet?

At 10pm on Friday 29 January 2016, Esther Beadle closed the front door and walked out of her life. A journalist at the Oxford Mail, she was seen leaving her shared house in Cowley, about an hour’s walk from the centre of Oxford. Then she was gone.

When she didn’t turn up to meet a friend in London the next day, alarm bells started ringing. Within hours there were hundreds of tweets about her, describing her, detailing her last known movements, and asking for information.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3z7wAFR