Andrew Gosden Disappearance | Lured Away from Safety?

hello this is dr grande today's question is can i analyze the disappearance of andrew gostin just a reminder i'm not diagnosing you by this video only speculating about what could be happening in a situation like this if you enjoyed this video please like it subscribe to my channel consider supporting me on patreon and check out my podcast i will put the relevant links in the description for this video so first i'll go through the background of andrew gosden i'll move to the timeline of his disappearance than offer my analysis andrew gosden was born in doncaster south yorkshire england on july 10 1993. his father is named kevin his mother glennis and he has a sister named charlotte growing up andrew didn't leave the house too often on the rare occasion when he would he would always tell his parents where he was headed to andrew did exceptionally well in school he maintained a perfect attendance record in high school he was in a gifted program which was reserved for the top five percent of students in terms of their academic performance when he disappeared he was headed for straight a's it appeared as though andrew had an exceptional mathematical ability and was actually somewhat bored in school this is common for people who are really good at math andrew was looking forward to greater challenges in the future which included going to cambridge and studying mathematics there andrew had poor eyesight he wore strong prescription glasses he also had poor hearing he was deaf in one ear he had a pronounced interest in video games and liked heavy metal bands even though andrew had owned several cell phones he lost all of them including one he had been given on his 12th birthday at the time andrew disappeared he was 14 years old but he was small for his age and looked about 2 years younger not long before he disappeared he expressed an interest in dying his hair black naturally it was brown andrew was a cub scout but a few months before his disappearance he told his father that he didn't want to be active in that group anymore now moving to the timeline of the disappearance during the 2007 summer break andrew's parents recommended that he travel to london to visit his grandmother but andrew was not interested he returned to school in september in the days leading up to his disappearance andrew broke from his routine by leaving school and not taking the bus rather he walked four miles to get home he did this on two occasions during the evening on september 13 2007 he worked on a jigsaw puzzle with his father and watched some comedy shows on tv with his mother the next morning september 14 2007 andrew had trouble waking up and seemed irritable he typically woke up on time without incident and was in a good mood andrew left his house at 8 05 am a witness noticed him walking across westfield park to the bus stop andrew did not get on the bus instead he walked to an atm at a nearby garage at this location he withdrew 200 pounds 14 pounds shy of everything he had in his bank account that particular machine would only permit withdraws in 20 pound increments so it may have been that he would have preferred to take all the money out but he could not a neighbor's surveillance video picked up andrew making his way back to his home at this point he took off his uniform and put it in the washing machine and placed his blazer and tie on the back of a chair he changed in different clothes including black jeans and a black t-shirt he grabbed a bag that had patches from various musical bands on it andrew took a playstation portable console his wallet and his keys he did not take anything else including the charger for the playstation 100 pounds in cash he had saved from christmas and birthday presents or his passport at 8 30 a.m andrew once again left his house this time he was seen walking down little more lane toward westfield park he made his way to the doncaster railway station where he purchased a one-way ticket to london for about 31 pounds the woman who sold him the ticket informed him that the return ticket was just a half a pound more but andrew only wanted the one-way ticket witnesses saw andrew board the train to king's cross station at 9 35 am he was alone a woman who sat next to andrew remembered him she described him as being focused on playing his video game console and remaining quiet at andrew's school teachers attempted to report his absence to his parents but they dialed the wrong number and left a message with the wrong person so apparently there must have been some type of list and they read either the number above or below andrew's parents andrew arrived at king's cross station at 11 20 am five minutes later he left out of the main entrance there has never been another confirmed sighting of andrew gosden because the family was not notified by andrew's school about him not showing up that day they sat down for dinner believing that andrew was in his room doing his homework or in the finished basement playing video games both behaviors were common for him when they realized that he was not anywhere in the house they thought that maybe he was at a neighbor's house or with a friend perhaps he just lost track of time his parents contacted a few friends they all said that andrew was not with them they also mentioned that he had not been in school andrew's parents called the police at about 7 p.m andrew's family and friends searched for andrew including the route he typically used to go to school they didn't find anything the police discovered that andrew had traveled to london they contacted relatives of the gosden family in london none of them had seen andrew the police investigated the disappearance for quite some time andrew was never found andrew's father kevin claimed that the police initially suspected him as being involved in andrew's disappearance thereby wasting time they could have used to focus on the surveillance video the police cleared kevin and all of andrew's family members of any wrongdoing now moving to my analysis there are some possible sightings of andrew that are of some interest one witness said that they saw andrew at a pizza hut on oxford street this was 2.6 miles from king's cross station other witnesses saw andrew in various places around london including sleeping in a park four days after he disappeared in 2008 a man visited a police station in leominster it was in a business park and kind of out of the way so visiting that station shows a deliberate effort it was strange to select that particular location the man used an intercom and said that he had information about andrew gosden's disappearance he left before the police arrived later a person claiming to be that man wrote an anonymous letter to the bbc and talked about a possible sighting of andrew in shrewsbury nothing came of this lead all of the sightings of andrew gosden are unconfirmed andrew's bank account was never accessed after withdrawal he made on the day he disappeared the police inspected every device that andrew could have possibly had access to like electronic devices they were probably expecting to examine a lengthy search history and try to pick up on suspicious terms but as it turns out their job was much easier than that andrew had not been on the internet at all it wasn't a matter of a low number of searches there were no searches he did not use his computer at home he did not have an email address and he never connected his playstation to the internet on august 2 2008 a 16 year old boy disappeared from london his name is alex slowly he was also gifted in the area of mathematics it is believed that he disappeared two miles from king's cross station so this makes it seem as though there could be some type of serial killer who is abducting people who fit andrew gosden's profile as far as andrew gosden's personality he was described as exceptionally intelligent gullible not streetwise and absent-minded he had a fairly stable mood was quiet shy and mature he could thrive being alone but he wasn't a loner he had a small group of friends although his time socializing with them was restricted to in school it's been reported that he was not depressed and not bullied in school let's take a look at the theories of andrew's disappearance theory number one is that andrew traveled to london to visit museums or other similar attractions even though andrew stayed home pretty much all the time he had been to london with relatives he was very familiar with the public transportation system available there at the time of his disappearance he could travel on the buses in london for no charge there were no sightings in any of those locations the evidence working against this theory includes the fact that andrew disappeared most people returned from visiting museums you can't buy a one-way ticket into a museum it always comes with the option of exiting this theory explains why he went to london but not why he is missing also andrew turned down an opportunity to travel to london during the summer and he had perfect attendance in school if he was doing something that would normally be available to him as an option why destroy his record of perfect attendance he could have visited london on a weekend with his parents permission it makes more sense that andrew was participating in an unsanctioned activity one that his parents would not have ever permitted under any circumstances this takes us to theory number two which says that andrew was in london to attend a music concert he did have an interest in music he was a fan of heavy metal bands as i mentioned one band was playing at a venue within walking distance of king's cross station there was a canal nearby one version of this theory would be that he went to the concert and somehow fell into the canal there was another band from finland that had a promotional signing at a store in london on september 17th the band helped with the investigation but no leads were generated i think this theory has the same problem as theory number one andrew could have sought permission there was no need to sneak around to go anywhere in london whether it was to a concert to a museum or some other location theory number three is that andrew wanted to start a new life one of his favorite television shows featured a character who faked his own death and did just that started a new life began a new adventure perhaps andrew was inspired by that character and wanted an adventure of his own i'm sure andrew watched a number of television shows we know he played video games there are a lot of behaviors featured in those products which andrew did not attempt to imitate in the modern world it is quite difficult to run away with just a little bit of money and start a whole new life theory number four is that andrew traveled to london to bring an end to his own life andrew put his uniform in the washing machine and placed his blazer and tie on the back of the chair as i mentioned this could be interpreted in two ways one way he wanted to make sure that people would not start looking for him too soon like he wanted to make sure he could get away with whatever he wanted to get away with without people coming and looking for him he was stalling for time the parents would see what he did and think that he was home the other way of interpreting this would be that he was intending on coming back he wanted to conceal the fact that he was absent like sneak back into the house and act like he never missed school he was trying to make it look like his routine was being maintained also andrew left his playstation charger at home i think he was intending on returning home at some point with all this in mind this theory is certainly a possibility one could argue that the one-way ticket andrew purchased was a metaphor for this behavior the idea that he wanted to end his life but i don't think this is the most likely explanation why travel to london to end his life and why withdraw money before the trip also based on the reports from the people he encountered and from the surveillance video he didn't appear to be distressed the last theory theory number five is that andrew communicated with somebody who had ill intent like a serial killer not somebody that he encountered along the way but somebody who was there at the beginning of this whole situation as i mentioned there is no indication that andrew ever used the internet although he could have used it when he deviated from his normal route home on those two separate days before his disappearance maybe he went someplace like a friend's house or an internet cafe another possibility is that andrew communicated with someone using a non-electronic method if there was a perpetrator the person could have lived near andrew and simply spoken with him i think it shows how pervasive electronics are in society that some people look at this case and think there could not have been a perpetrator without any electronic footprint who on earth would actually verbally communicate with another human being like it was a tactic from the stone ages or something to some degree i kind of see their point even if somebody was talking to andrew one would think that there would still be some type of electronic record that would have memorialized their contact for example if the perpetrator was using the pretext of attending a concert to lure andrew to london how did andrew buy a ticket he did not have an email address did the perpetrator purchase a ticket for him or pretend to purchase one now when thinking about all the evidence and contemplating all the theories which theory do i think is correct one thing that is clear is that andrew's own actions initiated his disappearance he pretended to go to school he backtracked to his house he withdrew the money it was his own behavior that set the stage for the disappearance the real question is was there somebody who else who facilitated his disappearance who was pulling the strings behind the scenes who manipulated andrew could this person be responsible for not only andrew's disappearance but the disappearance of alex slowly i leaned toward the theory that there was a perpetrator involved in this case so theory number five andrew's actions necessitated a lot of initiative and motivation this was a bold move something he had never done before one that certainly would have resulted in him getting in trouble with his parents and with school officials i think that andrew was motivated by an external influence probably another person after theory number five the next most likely theory would be theory number two he wanted to see a concert something terrible happened to him when he was there then i would go with theory number one he went to a museum or other similar attraction and again something awful occurred after this i would move to number four he wanted to end his life and theory number three he started a new life i think that theories number four and three are very unlikely what lessons can be learned in this case this case is such a mystery there's a lack of evidence which makes it hard to figure out what happened one thing that we know for sure however is that andrew did something very unexpected totally out of character perhaps on his own or motivated by another person i guess the lesson here is that anybody can surprise us with their behavior in both positive and negative ways whatever it was that andrew desired he did not want to share it with anyone else he wanted to experience it on his own away from observation and scrutiny everybody has the potential to keep a secret those are my thoughts in the case of andrew gaston please put any opinions and thoughts in the comments section they always generate an interesting dialogue as always i hope you found my analysis of this topic to be informative thanks for watching so i've had a few questions about the book and the background there behind me this is my new novel it's a 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