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So today we're going to be talking about the unsolved disappearance of Russell Bowley.

So quickly before I get into this video I just want to give my usual disclaimer that I mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone that I talk about in this video.

This video is for educational purposes and everything that I'm about to say is just information that I have found on the internet and I'm compiling into one video.

So Russell Bolin is an 18 year old boy born on December 29th, 1991 in Hull in East Yorkshire in England.

At the time of his disappearance, Russell was enrolled in a bricklaying course at Bishop Burton College and he lived at home with both of his parents.

On March 2nd, 2010, Russell set off for college at 8am as he normally did every single day, but once he left the house that day, Russell was never seen again.

When he failed to return home from college that day, his parents began

ringing him, texting him, trying to see where he was, seeing if he'd gone somewhere after college.

But this wasn't like him at all to not let them know where he was, and his family just knew that

something was wrong. And so they got in contact with police and reported Russell as missing.

So police came to the bowling house and they began asking them if they noticed anything

different about him that morning, like if anything was off.

And when they really thought about it, the parents noticed a couple of things.

When Russell left for college that morning, he seemed to be dressed a little bit smarter than he normally would dress for college.

He was wearing a black Ben Sherman jacket, blue jeans and black work boots, which was obviously different to what he normally wore.

And on a search of Russell's bedroom, his parents found that a pair of his brown steel tow-cat boots were also missing.

So he'd probably taken them with him that day as well.

So he'd taken two pairs of shoes with him and he was dressed smarter than normal.

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