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the emerald aisle to look at an ongoing missing person /de investigation case in Northern
Ireland but this isn't your average case of someone going missing and turning up
murdered in this case no one is really sure what happened here and the victim is a
juvenile a child who simply went out for a bike ride to meet friends and ended up
dead in the strangest of places and in the oddest of circumstances one detective called this
the strangest case he'd seen in his over 30-year career this is true crime garage and
this is the suspicious death investigation of Noah [Music] donaho [Music] on Sunday June 21st 2020 Noah Dono age
14 set off on his bike around 5:30 p.m. to meet friends at Cave Hill Country Park this is in Belfast in Northern
Ireland Noah was a pupil at St maly's College a private Catholic boys School founded in
1833 according to the Irish news Noah was meeting a group of school friends to work towards his Duke of Edinburg award
now the Duke of Edinburg award is a Civic self-improvement award given to young people who complete the
requirements of each level at Noah's age the four requirements would be community
service mental skill building physical Recreation and adventurous Journey this last one requires that an adventure be
completed with a group of kids working together which was pre-approved by an award leader when Noah left the house he
had a large backpack containing his laptop and some books he anticipated needing for the day's activities Noah is
regularly described in the media as a talented chist at school he played rugby and basketball and sang in the choir he
was an exceptional student and received multiple Awards in the three years at the school including the spirit of the
college award the perfect attendance award and various class prizes that Sunday afternoon Noah never showed up at
Cave Hill Park yeah now Noah's mother is going to plead with the public for any information about her son his
disappearance was completely out of character for him and it seems that the police recognized right away that
something was wrong once they received the report that he was missing no was widely described as last scene wearing a
black skateboarding helmet a khaki green North Face jacket gray sweat shorts with
an emblem on one leg a tiedye blue hoodie Nike sneakers with a bright yellow swoosh and a khaki backpack
Noah's missing person's case became big news in Belfast with people holding vigils and participating in searches in
fact according to the Belfast telegram his case became one of the biggest missing person's cases in the history of
Northern Ireland on the day that he disappeared on that Sunday searches Sunday night and Monday focusing on the
area he was believed to have been heading to Cave Hill Park came up empty but on Monday night police received news
that a woman named Karen Kooks called in she had heard all about the missing boy
as it was all over the news right she told police that on Sunday night so this was right after Noah went missing he
left his home at 5:30 p.m. she found a black Apollo mountain bike lying in the road at her Northwood Road home this is
a residential area so at the time you know she just assumes some neighborhood kid left his bike and would come back
and get it later right she left it in front of her house and went to work on Monday morning it is an odd place to
find a bike maybe you'd see one on the sidewalk we don't know the area so we don't know if there was sidewalks or
maybe you'd find a children's bike in in somebody's yard but in the street I think that's a little uh suspicious so
on Monday she heard about Noah from the news and the description of his bike a black Apollo mountain bike so when she
went home she finds that the bike is still in her yard no one's come to retrieve it she called the police at 700
p.m. and on Tuesday police confirmed that it was in fact Noah's bike so police now had an idea where Noah had
gone note this Northwood Road neighborhood is totally residential and is nowhere it is nowhere near the park
where Noah was supposed to be going his his supposed destination yeah I wonder how familiar he was with riding into the
park this was actually 2 and 1/2 miles away from Cave Hill and no one had any idea why Noah would be in that
particular area one thing that Irish crime Fighters have at their disposal that is of tantamount to this case and
cases like this is CCTV cameras all over the place right the Police Service of Northern Ireland
psni was able to put together a timeline of where Noah went and when by compiling
CCTV footage from businesses and homes believe they had over 20 pieces of video footage with Noah on it yes so this was
from 22 different sources and they were able to watch nine full minutes of Noah's Journey this was broken up
footage from 22 different cameras that captured Noah as he went past by utilizing the timestamps on the footage
they were able to track his travels that Sunday evening here are their official findings one note before we get into the
route Noah took that day Noah's home address where he lived with his mother Fiona has not been published right media
Outlets like Belfast live have published maps showing the different points where
Noah was seen on CCTV that afternoon and they placed the starting point at the intersection of absy street and
Oru Avenue and I'm going to spell those just in case I'm not pronouncing them correctly that's APS l y Street and o r
m e auu Avenue the bike ride to Cave Hill from this area is 6.7 miles so it would take Noah over an hour to get
there and like you said he's not in the area he's supposed to be that that is one of the the biggest mysteries of this
case yes and there's no real reporting about whether Noah had biked to this area
before or if he was even used to such long bike rides by himself so we don't know if he's familiar with this area
where he's not supposed to be right the Irish news reported that it was thought that Noah may have taken a wrong turn
you know simply got lost from his home in South Belfast on his way to Cave Hill and ended up in the Shore Road Northwood
area where his bike was found instead but how many times have you been driving or riding your bike or or whatever
you're doing you make a wrong turn because you think it looks familiar and then for a mile or a few miles you're
going okay now this doesn't look familiar right and so you just keep going like I'm going to see something
pretty soon that that makes me realize I'm going in the right direction but you just don't
well and this is just last summer when this boy vanished so keep in mind Noah had a phone with him and he's a smart
14-year-old if he made a wrong turn one would think he would just use a map app to obtain directions regardless a wrong
turn even if that's the case it's certainly logical but if that's the case it does not explain him Vanishing right
let's go through the timeline presented at the August and November preliminary hearings okay so to be clear with
everyone they have held these hearings to try to determine what happened in this case this is not a trial uh this is
simply people getting together and trying to decipher what happened in this particular situation the
timeline is as follows Noah left his home in South Belfast on Sunday June 21st at 5:41 p.m. on his bike he had on
his jacket and his backpack he then traveled along or Mayu Road at 5:42 p.m. towards the city center before cycling
through Victoria Square at 5:49 p.m. then he hit corn Market High Street and Royal Avenue this at 5:50 p.m. so
several different roads traveling pretty fast Along on his bike covering a decent
amount of ground no was then seen traveling alongside the AR College near the corner of York Street and Frederick
Street at 5:53 p.m. CCV footage shows Noah traveling toward yorkgate by which stage Noah is clearly seen to no longer
be carrying his backpack weird stuff he's not interacted with anybody he's simply traveling on his bike and when we
get to this clip we can't see a backpack he's no longer carrying his back backpack Noah then traveled along York
Street crossing great Patrick Street and the motorway which is another word for their Highway before turning left onto
broam Street and then right along North Queen Street at 557 p.m. moving toward the north of the city this part is not
on CCTV but came from a witness statement saying that at 6: p.m. as Noah cycled toward the Grove well-being
Center on North Queen Street in York Road he fell from his bicycle just before the junction with the Shore Road
a motorist stopped at the intersection witnessed this it seems she did not actually talk to Noah because Noah got
back on his bicycle within one minute and continued along Shore Road at this stage he was no
longer wearing his green Overcoat he continued along York Road cycling in a normal way according to the
barister presenting the timeline one minute later at just before 6:02 p.m. Noah was seen entering Northwood
Crescent from Skoal Avenue he was wearing his black skate helmet blue hoodie gray shorts and black Nikes then
because a story involving video surveillance footage would not be complete without a glitch in the
timestamp there was an initial Gap in the timeline it was reported to the public that the next sighting of Noah on
CCTV was at 6:11 p.m I think we're now 100% in the cases we covered when there's CCTV where something is wrong
there's a time stamp is normally wrong correct it's it would be abnormal if they're 100% correct so so what we have
here is the the initial reporting at these hearings is stating hey there's nine minutes unaccounted for where Noah
is not visible we don't know what he's doing who he's with if anyone at all this Gap in the timeline was enough to
cause all sorts of rumors conspiracy theories including that Noah could have been
abducted and had fallen victim to child molester or even been kidna SED in some politically motivated plot against
British loyalists but this was all eventually addressed by the psni this is a statement from one of the
hearings says quote police have since confirmed that the 1811 timing is wrong the time stamp on
the actual footage is 1808 police misunderstood at the time of its retrieval that the clock on the CC
TV was 3 minutes slow and hence the reported actual timing of 1811 police Now understand the clock on
the CCTV to have been 5 minutes fast hence the new last sighting timing of 1803 these timings will be evidentially
verified at the full inquest but it's very strange I mean we have these gaps in time but the fact that he's leaving
his book bag behind the fact that he's leaving his jacket behind uh we can't say for 100% certainty that
he had no interaction with somebody because we don't have obviously every second of his travel that day there's
yeah that's correct we don't have every second of his travel however what this means per the statement is that there is
in fact no Gap in the footage at all the next sightings of Noah are at 6:03 p.m.
well yeah and I and I think what they're implying is we don't think there was any
interaction because there's no time Gap showing that he would have stopped to interact with somebody correct correct
and again from the official statement this is for the next stage in the timeline at 6:03 p.m. Noah is seen a
short distance away outside of 85 Northwood Road without any close he has seen on this CCTV to go
between numbers 80 9 and 91 Northwood Road which leads to an area of waste ground behind the two houses this is a
wooded area behind the neighborhood okay just a recap no real Gap in the CCTV footage footage pulled from 22 cameras
where we can see Noah traveling Along on his bicycle however there are articles of
clothing that seem to be disappearing at as he continues on his Adventure just that doesn't make any sense first the
backpack then his his jacket yeah and then to the point where he's he's visibly naked right
so he's then seen walking in this residential neighborhood naked the CCTV footage that captured this was from a
camera on the Northwood Road home of Linda Patterson so we are at this point no possessions no
clothes and his bike is gone at this point correct now Linda Patterson um which her CCTV captured
this footage she said that she was sitting in her living room watching television when she saw Noah bike passed
and he was not wearing any clothes at this point she says that she called to her husband but by the time he got into
the the room and they looked again out the window the boy was gone and they saw his bike just lying in the street she
said to the media quote quite a few people saw him but they just saw him from the waist up and didn't think
anything of it end quote Yeah they didn't see his dingle dangle she also said that the boy did not seem to be in
distress in any way at all but again this is a very quick sighting out of window here right this is the the last
footage showing Noah Dono before he vanished but here here's what we do have though is we do have at some point that
we know that there's a mistake between law enforcement and the information on the CCTV so I think some people wonder
is there possibly more mistakes that law enforcement just didn't catch yes uh Linda's house the eyewitness her home
appears to be a condo with multiple units in one larger building this is also a call to sack
Noah had last been seen between numbers 89 and 91 the addresses 89 and 91 Northwood Road one of these is the home
of Karen Crooks she's the woman who found Noah's bike and later reported it so Noah was there biking naked this is
not a situation where the child was abducted at some point and somebody dumped the bike off in this neighborhood
we have eyewitnesses and footage putting him there before he disappears and now simply it's a bike in the
street none of the footage however actually shows him removing his clothing at any point it's reported that police
believe Noah left the area on foot they did not suspect Foul Play Because in all
of the footage they reviewed which seemed to account for Noah's Journey from his home to where his bike was F
found he was not seen interacting with a single person but regardless no one knew where
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to the information at the hearing it was reported to the court that on Wednesday
Noah's helmet was found by a member of the public on Northwood Road on the same day his hoodie and shoes were discovered
by a member of the public lying on a wall at 63 Northwood Road mhm clearly he had discarded his clothing and then
gotten back on on his bike and I'm saying that with a question mark at the end and where were the rest of his
clothes you know we we don't have his jacket his shorts so now that the police knew that that Noah was biking along
naked and the witness had reported seeing him fall off his bike people began to speculate that perhaps Noah
suffered some kind of head injury during this fall you know we reported he was wearing a skating helmet
but regardless theories about it that perhaps he suffered some kind of concussion underneath the helmet the
fall from the bike and the motorist saying that he may have hit his head is what led police to believe Noah might
have been disoriented got lost or was simply hiding the psni superintendent Clark
said quote the one thing we are majoring on is that he has in some way suffered a
head injury which led him to being disoriented an appeal was made to the public to please search their homes
Gardens garages out buildings and surrounding areas for the boy police said we still believe he may have gone
into an empty building or shed foot searches supported by an aerial unit police dogs and a Tactical Team covered
the area thoroughly as well as local volunteers but they still could not find the boy they couldn't find Noah the fall
from the bike could not explain one thing Noah shedding his backpack and coat because this would be before the
fall right and it also does not explain the direction he was traveling in this is not the direction he should be going
in by the time he fell off his bike he was in a location he had no business being in that anyone knows of and it's
far from his alleged destination okay so then you asked about the backpack on Friday June
26th it was announced that police recovered his backpack here's what happened a known drug addict his name is
Daryl Paul age 33 found the backpack he says leaning up against a wall we don't know exactly where he ran sacked it and
he tried to sell off some of the items he found inside of the backpack at like a
they call it a cash converters shop but I imagine it's like a pawn shop mind you
there's the laptop computer inside this backpack this was 2 days after Noah went
missing on June 23rd for unknown reasons the store refused to buy it Paul was arrested that week on unrelated charges
and was sitting in jail meanwhile this is bizarre an anonymous call to police informed them that Daryl
Paul was in possession of the computer backpack and school books with missing child Noah donah Who's name on them mhm
so they don't find these items on this dude when they arrest him on unrelated charges he's sitting in a jail cell
because of these unrelated charges this unrelated arrest and magically an anonymous phone call comes in saying hey
remember that missing kid that we still haven't found this dude had some of this
kid's belongings police are going to search his home to try to find these items or hopefully
even find the boy and they did recover the backpack and the books they then recovered the laptop
from a friend of Pauls I guess he said that he he loaned it to his friend or maybe possibly trying to sell it to the
friend again we look at these cases and we say if you could have just you know one question question answered this case
you're going to have a whole long list of them but here at this point in the timeline I would be fascinated to know
who called in this anonymous tip about these belongings this lead is strange too because it turns out there was no
possibility that Daryl Paul had anything to do with what happened to Noah and this is per a police statement quote
CCTV footage confirmed that the individual who took the bag was a number of miles away when Noah was last seen
with the bag at or about the art college right this individual is being investigated for the offense under the
Theft Act and the police will deal with this manner separately so Paul per CCTV footage they can put this guy at a
completely different location miles away from where this boy was when his backpack disappears off of his body off
of his person on the CCTV footage right according to statements made at the preliminary hearing Noah's phone was
discovered within a few days of his disappearance this was near a playground on North Queen Street a citizen found
the phone and turned it in it was reported that both the phone and the laptop were undergoing forensic
examination as one would expect although initial investigation did not discover anything useful or any useful
information on either of the devices right we don't have any record of him making connection with somebody through
these devices yeah it doesn't seem to be communicating with anybody uh as far as
we know he's not looking up a map app to indicate that he's aware that he's lost
again we also don't have any communication of why he would be in that area and not heading towards the park so
as you will recall the final piece of the CCTV footage showed Noah walking naked near a house on Northwood Road
where his bike was found searches of the area at the time turned up nothing but by Thursday police seem to be on to
something and we say that because by that Thursday they're now asking everyone to stand down on their public
searches remember they were asking the public for help for information and for them to search their their properties
right they're now asking the public to stand down on Saturday June 27th 6 days after Noah was last seen
there was news police found Noah's body at 9:45 a.m. in a storm drain complex underneath the Shore Road area search
and rescue teams had been searching the complex apparently for several days Captain psni superintendent Clark made a
public statement saying quote while we have no official identification we believe it is the missing teenager Noah
Dono Clark asked the public to stop spreading baseless rumors about Noah being murdered stating that said he did
not believe Foul Play to have been a factor yeah I don't think there was any puncture wounds like bullet holes or he
wasn't stabbed with a knife or anything right we do have some information from the autopsy it was conducted um in
rumors flew that Noah had been murdered placed in the storm drain system to hide
the body yeah look my issue with this examiner saying people shouldn't question things so much in this area
they did have people that were being harassed and stocked online so that's not out of the norm for the public to
have some questions about that we have a we have a missing child that we have on
film basically um removing all his belongings it just doesn't add up correct and the thing that we have going
on here too is the baseless rumors that the investigators are telling the public
hey can you please stop with this this is not helping our investigation at all because what you have here Captain is we
know that his bike was found on Northwood Road and then we have the public statement of what we tracked him
via camera footage to where his bike went was found and then about a week later we find him in this storm drain
complex it's it's we'll go through the storm drain complex here in a little bit but we find his body in this area what
you have is you have accusations by people online who are saying okay well this person that lives on Northwood Road
they must have killed him and abducted him and killed kill him this person that lives on this street must have done this
right and that's not helping their investigation at all I I'm just saying that I I don't think it's uncalled for
for the a community that knows that people are being harassed online and stalked online to have questions so the
autopsy again with the rumors and everything like that of course they're looking for Foul Play and the police
suspected that Noah may have suffered a head injury resulting in this unusual behavior the coroner was also looking
for any signs of head trauma or head injury the results of the autopsy were startling to many it was found that the
cause of death was drowning Noah had drowned in the storm drain system or appears to be that way right and to make
things even more puzzling it was also revealed that he did not sustain any severe head injury in fact there was no
detectable head injury at all according to the BBC coroner Joe mccriskin said there is no evidence that
Noah was attacked or that any other person was involved in his death he also expressed concern about continued
baseless online speculation about the incident now what about uh his mental health do we know if he's on any
medication or do we know if he was ADHD or anything like that it does not appear
that he had anything of concern because if if he had like severe ADHD or something like that and they had him on
a high dose of something that maybe his parents stopped giving him or maybe he stopped taking he could be having
symptoms of like withdraw which would make sense on why he was taking his clothes off because one of the symptoms
of a of a drug withdrawal would be that you feel like your body's on fire correct correct um let's go through that
storn drain system here because anybody that's not familiar with this case they're probably just picturing this boy
being found in a ditch somewhere mhm you know a large puddle of water so to speak
so the storm drain system and also let's try to figure out how he got there because this is not what you're
picturing if you're not familiar with this case the police believe that Noah entered the storm drain of his own
accord this is something you would have to physically get into yeah and they say
the police say that they know exactly where he went in now we don't know exactly how they quote unquote know this
but they figured out that he was in the drain system and went into search for him and ultimately retrieved his body
there's an obvious location where he could have entered if you believe that he's entering the nearest to where his
bike was found so that's that could be how they quote unquote know that he entered the storm drain system at this
location I don't think anybody knows anything in this case is why I'm using air quotes there um yeah nobody nobody
knows anything well nobody can see that you're making air quotes except for me but um I think the thing here the
evidence that they're just not pointing out which is obvious is that there's latches with locks on these storm drains
so process of elimination if all of them are locked going forward you know the the next five are locked and the five
behind us are locked but this one isn't I think that's where they know the point
of entrance yeah so remember Karen Crooks the nice lady who found Noah's bike and reported it the entrance to the
storm drain where it is believed that Noah went in is at the bottom of her yard behind her home
now this is not a manhole or one of those small under the curb openings like we see in our cities here in the US M
this drainage system is massive it's a maze of underground tunnels spanning one kilometer and the drains themselves are
huge yeah I'm I'm not saying it looks just like this but if you think of like Stephen Kings it you know exactly what I
thought of you know the dairy uh sewage system that's that's what I'm imagining these
have been described as CTS carrying underground waterways and the entrance behind the crooks home is a very
imposing looking opening photos of the access point to the storm drain system it is thought that Noah entered are
available online the entrance is a very large concrete opening that descends into the ground almost resembling the
entrance to an underground tomb or maybe a crypt and the opening is topped by a very imposing iron bar grate clearly
intended to keep people out so the great intended to keep people from going into the drain system at
first there was some question as to whether Noah could fit through the bars Karen krooks said her small boys
their ages are five and seven told her when they were discussing the case that they were able to squeeze through and
had done so the Bars were 7 and 1/2 in apart now according that's according to the Irish news keep in mind Noah is 14
he's not five or seven so I think it's highly doubtful that Noah could fit through such a small opening and as the
captain pointed out I don't know he's I mean he's rail thin well as you pointed out we would later learn that this
great it was unlocked yeah so it's intended to keep people out but if you don't put a lock on it it's the same as
any unlocked door anybody can walk through the thing right this is could just simply be a tragic
coincidence I guess the complex had been inspected on June 18th just 3 days before Noah died but the inspection
failed to note that the access hatch was not locked right so on June 21st when Noah had for unknown reasons decided to
enter the storm drain it was unlocked the infrastructure officials placed a padlock on it on June 24th this is after
they discovered that the police were considering whether Noah could have gone into it yeah three days after this is
three days too late so again from the from the Public's perception right you have this boy who went into what should
appear to be a locked great and it's going to be be reported as such now you're wondering how did did he
magically end up in there and then you find out well it it was only locked just before they found him it wasn't locked
on the day that he went missing wait hold on did you smell that lawsuit so once it was established
where Noah accessed the storm drain system it took police several days to find his body the Waterway tunnels were
pitch black inside and it took many twists and turns the psni superintendent Clark told the media that the storm
drain system searches were quote extremely challenging well and what's going to be very challenging here is
even if they say he died from drowning again like we've talked about the case yesterday fire destroys evidence water
destroys evidence equally yes and the superintendent included this in his statements about finding the body saying
in my 30 years in the police this is one of the most unusual missing person inquiries that I have dealt with at the
second preliminary hearing this was on August 28th the coroner addressed the court with his findings about the storm
drain system and Noah's demise this is quoted from the Belfast live quote today in conjunction with the police and my
Council I am providing some details which was which will dispel the many baseless and inaccurate rumors which
continue to circulate today I will set fact against fiction to me it seems likely that Noah entered the storm drain
to the rear of 85 Northwood Road by lifting a metal drain cover which at that time was not secured I have
examined the drain cover as have police officers and it seems entirely possible for Noah to have been able to lift that
cover and enter the drain system at that location end quote the coroner described
the drain as running underground from Northwood Road to Shore Road and again with him being found over a kilometer
away from the entrance this is a pretty big underground tunnel system yeah I mean he had a you know it took him days
to find him but also could he have gone down there and again we don't have pictures of this location so could he
have kept traveling when he got down down to the system without going through all the actual point point and different
roads and stuff because I think it will just get confusing here in this audio format that we have but there are maps
online to one show you his journey that he took on his bicycle right before going missing and there are also maps
that will show the different entrance points to this underground Waterway tunnel system I will post those on our
website and I'll also post those on social media Instagram at True Crime garage Facebook at True Crime garage and
Twitter at True Crime garage but something that's incredibly important to understand here is the environment
within the drain system itself it's described as of course challenging there's a lot of twists and turns the
drainage system there it it backfills with water during intervals between low and High
Tides so what we have here is the storm drainage system is tidal the water levels would EB and flow with the tides
right it would be entirely possible for someone to enter the drain when the water level was low or even very low
thinking that it would not pose any type of danger only to get trapped down there
when the tide rushed in on July 6th Fiona this is Noah's mother issued a statement that read in effect at this
time we are working with the psni on matters which are outstanding to the investigation and we are seeking
answers to questions which arise Noah's disappearance and death undoubtedly raise questions however public
speculation in theory is unhelpful we are dealing with the facts okay here's some questions one we don't know why he
was going in the direction he was going in and not towards the park that doesn't
make any sense we have some time gaps but we don't think that he was communicating with any individual what
happened during those time gaps we have those questions because sometimes we have items missing from him but we don't
have video footage of him actually discarding those items other question why does he get off his bike next
question he's nagged why and then what was the reasoning for going into the drainage
system was that because he was naked right you know and he was looking for a place to oh I don't have any clothes I I
need a place to hide and then like you said the the tide comes in and he he drowns or was he having some kind of
break was there some medical issues he was having that maybe his parents didn't know about maybe classmates knew about I
mean the only reason why I say that possibly a symptom and we can't even say for sure that it was a symptom was like
that he would feel like he was burning because why else would you take off your clothes right so as far as like
misdiagnose like a disease or something the it is a symptom rare symptom of Ms I
think there's even some stuff to do with um diabetes and stuff mhm but again like
I said did he have some kind of attention deficit disorder where they pulled him off his medication or did he
have a mental thing that he was on some kind of Narcotics that they pulled them off and he started going into some
withdrawals and just didn't know how to handle himself I mean he's only 14 years
old well and some people that have never heard of this case are probably asking why is the garage covering this one well
first of all it's been requested requested yeah and then second of all for a week while this child was
missing it was considered by the public to be an abduction and possibly a murder
right then he's found then the autopsy's conducted to to confirmed that he drowned and it's believe he drowned in
this drainage system well a good amount of the public still question what the hell happened here and so we have to
look at this put it under the garage microscope and wonder if there was a crime that was committed here now on
August 9th his mother put a post onto Noah's Facebook page that says why do we not all wake up my son died we have no
answers we have nothing please start questioning why I have no answers that same day a petition was circulated on
change.org and this petition was people requesting that the psni they're questioning the
investigation itself and psn's handling of Noah's case this petition got 22,500 signatur
in just two days so there's a lot of people that want to know what the hell happened here right
because and let me put my tin hat on but the world we live in is not the world in
which they just tell us about and what I mean by that is just because they say that you know the walls are blue
sometimes you're looking at the walls and you go those damn walls are red but everybody's trying to tell me they're
blue and that's why I was saying is the CCT TV footage accurate and is the information that law enforcement uh is
putting out to the public is that accurate and if it is accurate then then there was no communication there was no
nobody else involved there was no Person of Interest that he came in contact with
but you you have to start with believing the information that has been given well
and many people have stated that the autopsy did not yield results um that anybody felt good about many
people believe that the autopsy itself which we're only able to report a little portion of it I I don't know could not
find what I believe to be the complete autopsy to have been released right and and then we've seen in multiple cases
hold on I smell him a little FY Malik we know in in plenty of cases of suspicious
deaths or possible murderers where the autopsy is they don't make a lot of sense or there's errors I mean we
saw that in uh Kendrick Johnson's case we've see that with um like the boys on the tracks case yeah but I think that's
quite a accusation there to be no I'm just I'm just saying that there's people in the public that will question that
because of those cases because of the the rumors that they've heard about other uh Foul Play I'm not saying that
you should assume that the autopsy wasn't done correctly or that there was some weird workings of the autopsy I'm
just saying that that's because of other cases people go we still don't have any
answers right well was this autopsy done correctly was the investigation done correctly it do the parents actually
know but they're they're hiding something from us yeah and you're right many people have have put forth the idea
that the autopsy only presents more questions than it did answers there was to be an inquest in
the case of Noah donoho's death that was set for this week in fact it was set for
Monday January 18th 2021 it appears that that has been postponed because of the covid situation
so now what they're saying is and I'm I'm going to pull up this article here because this is a very fluid
situation again there was supposed to be a preliminary hearing where they were going to go through everything all of
the facts of the case just earlier this week what statements have come from that
is that one it's to be postponed there is some type of further hearing which I don't understand the difference in what
these hearings are and I'm not going to pretend to uh but what I'm seeing here Captain is that a further hearing will
be conducted on April 12th 2021 so this year however the formal final inquest will be held January 10th
2022 per that we're going to be left with with little in the way of answers until we have that uh I guess that final
formal inquest that final formal sitdown yeah this is definitely a case that we're going to need to revisit on off
the Record and it's it's just really sad I mean you got a kid a young kid that's
intelligent good-looking kid again it just there's so many questions why is he heading in that direction why why is he
taking his clothes off why is he taking his belongings and just tossing him aside all the way down to where he's not
even on his bike he's on nothing and then he goes into a draining Sy system and why is that system why was it
unlocked well and and I can only go what what off off of what I'm reading and what I'm seeing and it does not appear
that anyone's denying or questioning if the gr itself was unlocked it seems to be pretty understood across the board
that that happens to be the situation what is completely bizarre and I think you know I saw somebody post this and I
think this is the the only way to describe this case in this situation we we had the Chief Inspector who says this
is the most bizarre missing persons inquiry that I've seen in my 30 years on the force but take that a step further
the best way to describe this is someone said this case is a real head scratcher
and that's exactly what it is this case is fascinating to me I have no freaking clue what happened in this situation
because we can say things like well maybe there was a mental break okay there's no history there's no evidence
leading up to this event of that that we've been made aware of that we can say what about drugs what about a toxicology
report there doesn't seem he doesn't seem to have been a drug user number one and number two there is no report
of of what was found or not found in the boy system the thing here for me Captain
is it's question after question after question to get to this result there's no answer after answer after answer and
this is what we have no it's he said he was going one place he ended up in an entirely different place he had the
means and the resources to correct his route if he realized at any point he was lost right then we have his personal
items and clothing seem to be dis disappearing right before our eyes all of this stuff comes off of his person
but yet at no point on any of this camera footage now mind you there's tiny little breaks you know it's 22 cameras
piecing together 9 Minutes of his travels but it's boom he's fully clothed backpack helmet everything next picture
no backpack next picture no jacket and then to the point where he's naked his he's off of his bike none of this makes
any sense at all and I I can't I cannot sit here and say that I believe that a crime was committed I can say that I
that 100% there is a huge mystery before us I feel bad for no and I feel bad for
his parents and the community and and hopefully by April we have some more answers yeah this case is so intriguing
because it's it's just so bizarre it's perplexing it's tragic by all account no was a lovely boy he and his mom were
very close he was someone that would not be expected to behave in such a strange
way at least as far as the mainstream media has reported there were no background issues that would indicate
that Noah was anything but a normal teenager being raised in a loving household even attending a rigorous
religious school and working on being the best that he could be so what on Earth happened to him that day is
anyone's guess at this point and no Theory makes complete sense I've reviewed all the popular theories online
and I can poke holes in every single one of them rather quickly it is very interesting and it will be very
interesting to see whether the inquest is able to provide us with any [Music] answers
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n the summer of 2020 Northern Ireland was hit with a missing child case. The bizarre disappearance of 14 year-old Noah Donohoe. The boy went for a bike ride to meet some classmates. What would follow would be wild speculation. Everyone wanted to know, what happened to Noah?

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Brief Summary

14-year-old Noah Dono went missing in Belfast, found dead in a storm drain, raising questions about his disappearance and investigation.

Key points

The Mysterious Disappearance of Noah Dono. A 14-year-old boy vanishes after leaving home for a bike ride, leading to a massive search effort.
CCTV Footage Reveals Disturbing Gaps. Police find gaps in the CCTV timeline of Noah's journey, raising questions about his fate.
Larry Finley's Legacy. Larry Finley served the US Navy and was a beloved DARE officer. He will be missed.
Noah's Disappearance. Noah's helmet and clothing were found, raising questions about his state before going missing.
Tragic Discovery. Noah's body was found in a storm drain, leading to questions about his disappearance.
Coroner's Findings. The coroner confirmed no foul play in Noah's death, stating he drowned.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Noah's disappearance was completely out of character for him.

Describing Noah's unexpected vanishing.

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