The Disappearance of Corrie McKeague

Disclaimer -  This blog is for educational and awareness purposes. I mean no disrespect to anyone spoken about in this blog. 

Corrie McKeague (born 16th September 1993)  was a Scottish man who went missing in the early hours of the 24th of September 2016 in the Bury St Edmunds area of Suffolk, England. Corrie was born in Perth, Scotland and was raised in Dunfermline. Corrie was a Royal Air Force Regiment Gunner.  He was 23 when he went missing.

Prior to his disappearance, Corrie was dating a girl named April. April was actually pregnant with Corrie's baby but sadly, she did not find out until he was missing.

Corrie was described as a friendly, confident and a kind person by his mum, she said he loved life and always strived to live it to the fullest.

Friday 23^rd of September

Corrie had plans to meet up with some of his RF colleagues as they had the weekend off. Around 10 pm he drove his BMW into town, where he left it and went to have drinks with his friends. Between 10 PM and 12.30 am Corrie and his friends went to a few different bars.

Saturday 24^th of September

12.30 am Corrie and his friends went to a nightclub called Flex. The boys where drunk at this point. At around 1 am the security guard insisted Corrie leave the club as he was quite intoxicated. Corrie agreed and left. None of his friends left with him.

Corrie then went to a local takeaway shop which was just down the street and ordered a burger and a kebab.  

At around 1.30 am Corrie walked to a store front and ate his food, he then fell asleep outside this shop and woke up around 3am.

See CCTV footage below.

At 3 am Corrie sent a few text messages to some friends and then began walking again.

Corrie walked into a dead-end street, into a part called the ‘horseshoe’

The horseshoe was basically like a cul-de-sac that consisted of all the back doors of some shops. It also had many bins for all the businesses dotted about the area.

CCTV caught Corrie entering into this ‘horseshoe’ at 3.23 am. This was the last sighting of Corrie.

The CCTV does not pick Corrie up again however, in order to get out of the horseshoe he would have had to go out the way he came and the CCTV footage would have seen him or he would have had to go through one of the back doors of the stores. However, there was CCTV at the front of the stores which also did not pick up Corrie leaving this horseshoe area.

Further CCTV footage is shown below

Monday 26^th of September 2016

Corrie is reported missing to the police. He was due to be back to work on the Monday however failed to show up, which was so out of character for Corrie. A huge search operation began to try and find Corrie, the police and volunteers searched for miles but no evidence was found.

The police then started to look into the CCTV footage in the town and this is where they see Corries whereabouts that night.

The police then began investigating Corries phone records which showed his phone pinged at a cell tower near the horseshoe and then 30 minutes later pinged at a cell tower 13 miles away. He could not have walked this far in 30 minutes, which means he must have been in some sort of vehicle. Corries phone stopped connecting to that cell at around 8 am and was not traceable after that. Which means it as either turned off, destroyed or the battery had died.

At around the time Corrie went missing a bin lorry was around the horseshoe area and travelled to a landfill up near the cell tower which last picked up Corries phone signal.

The theory which follows this is that Corrie fell asleep either on one of the bins or inside the bin and the bin lorry emptied the bins with Corrie inside which crushed him and dumped him at the landfill. The bin lorry which picked up the rubbish on the 24^th of September weighed each bin that was emptied. On the day Corrie went missing the bin was a lot heavier than normal. It should be mentioned that the weighing of the bins had many times been inaccurate and the first weighing of that bin lorry was actually a normal weight however, once weighed again it somehow then showed X8 heavier.

Corries younger brother took to social media to say the police were intentionally leaving details of his brothers case out. The most important fact being that the bin lorry driver actually witnessed Corrie sleeping on the ground near some of the bins. There was also no DNA of Corrie found inside the bin either.

Another possible theory is that Corrie was taken into one of the vehicles that entered the horseshoe. There were five cars which entered the horseshoe area at the time Corrie was apparently still inside.

In February 2017, the police finally searched the landfill which the bin lorry went to that night. They searched through all the rubbish for months but did not find a single piece of evidence of Corrie. The police however, did find receipts from the horseshoe area from the night Corrie went missing but not one single fragment of Corrie.

As of 2019 Corries disappearance is a cold case. There are no further leads to corroborate either of these theories. If you think you have any information regarding this case please call 101