Tuesday, 20 May 2008

Update - those other articles

21 April
Front Page - Police Appeal for Witnesses
Police are appealing for witnesses from anyone who was in the Fordebridge University area of the town on the night of 6 April 2008, between 1730 and 0100 hours. This is part of an ongoing investigation into the suspicious disappearance of two professors, Professor James Joaquin Richleau (51) and Professor Arthur Morgan (52). Anyone with information should contact DCI Marshal of Fordebridgeshire Constabulary.

28 April
Page 2 - Professors Remain Missing
Week three – No News on Dons’ Disappearance. Anyone with information should contact DCI Marshal of Fordebridgeshire Constabulary.

5 May – Bank Holiday Edition
Page 3 - Hunt for Professors Ongoing
Police remain in the dark as we enter week four of the ongoing investigation into the suspicious disappearance of two Fordebridge University Professors, Professor James Joaquin Richleau (51) and Professor Arthur Morgan (52). Professor Richleau’s daughter, Rachel Richleau (29), has returned from Vienna, where she holds a PhD at the city’s University, to support the police with their enquiries. This morning she made an impassioned plea from the steps of the University for anyone with information to come forward. Anyone with information should contact DCI Marshal of Fordebridgeshire Constabulary.

12 May
Headline on front page: Daughter Launches Website to Find Father
In a surprising development today, the daughter of missing professor, James Richleau (51), has launched a website and reward of £10,000 asking for help from members of the public. Our Chief Correspondent reports.

Rachel Richleau (29) spoke exclusively to the Fordebridge Times today about the launch of her website, professorsjournal.com, in an attempt to get members of the public to help solve the mystery of her father’s recent disappearance. Speaking frankly about the death of her mother ten years ago and the strong bond she had subsequently forged with her father, she expressed a growing sense of concern about whether her father and his good friend and fellow professor, Arthur Morgan (52), would be found anytime soon.

“This is all I can do. My father told me he was worried following the publication of his Contemporary Crusades paper but had been encouraged by the agreement of a publisher to turn it into a less academic, more mainstream history book. He’d even travelled to the US to discuss his work. If my father felt threatened he would have left some clue as to what he was thinking and I have set this website up to encourage intelligent public-spirited people everywhere to help me solve his mystery. It’s been five weeks and I cannot just sit around waiting.”Professor Richleau is not afraid of courting controversy and his most recent paper, Contemporary Crusades, raised eyebrows in certain academic and political circles over its broad subject matter, sweeping narrative and strong, some would say anti-Western, conclusions about the ongoing Palestinian issue and recent Iraq War. He is also well known for attacks on the historical revisionism of the movie industry that he argued was presenting a distorted picture of historical events.

Fordebridgeshire Constabulary has strongly recommended that anyone with information should contact their office. An official spokesperson today said “While I understand Ms Richleau’s frustration with our apparent slow progress, we must be painstaking, and above all, law-abiding, in our investigations. Independent attempts such as these to find answers outside official channels, especially when accompanied with a large reward, can only hamper our attempts to find Ms Richleau’s father and his colleague, Professor Morgan.

“The Fordebridge Times recognises police concerns but lends its support to the daughter’s cause in attempting to uncover the mystery of her father’s disappearance.

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