This story has a funny smell to it. The guy pulls a long shift and doesn’t show back up to the house till the early morning hours. That’s when he discovers the kid gone. Then you toss in these cellphones gone. Why take the cellphones? And who would spend precious minutes in a house like this...hunting down the cellphones? It’s either one of the parents or a very close relative.
Unless they are both there on the coffee table.
And you've jumped right to the conclusion you are going to reach.
Which is why I don't spend time trying to take care of foundlings.
You have issues.
/johnny
This story has a funny smell to it for me as well. Something’s not adding up.
Stranger abduction of an infant is exceedingly rare; only 283 or so case since 1983. Of these, only 12 instances occur where the infant has not been brought back to the parent or parents. Of course, it is a possibility and one that, for the time being, I will not preclude.
Taking the cellphones is unusual. Most homes have a landline, even households that possess cellphones, though in fairness I do know some of my friends have gone strictly cellphone, so that might be the case here. If the kidnapper stole the cellphones, it would be so that the parents couldn’t call 911 to report the crime, to delay notification of the police. Okay, that makes some sense. Yet nothing else is missing from the house, at least according to the parents. Just the cellphones and the baby. So common burglary is out of the question, and I can’t think of a common burglar wanting to suddenly graduate to kidnapping. Mind you, there are some tweakers out there in the world who might do something so utterly insane, but that’s a fairly small probability.
I suspect a financial motive. If this was a random abduction, it would likely be to sell the baby for a tidy profit. There is the possibility that some unhinged person or persons kidnapped the child simply because she’s a cute kid, and they wanted her as their own; that’s usually the case in instances like this. But I’m starting to suspect that the baby has been sold. And I’m starting to suspect that one, or maybe both, of the parents may be involved. Hopefully, investigators are looking at their finances; are they heavily in debt, etc.? This is strictly a suspicion on my part, and I admit, ever since Susan Smith, I look a little more askance at these kind of cases. The sad truth is that in the vast majority of these cases, the perp is someone close to the victim.
As to the cellphones? Most likely powered off and disposed of to make it look like a theft.
Why would the authorities publicly come out and state that the parents are no longer cooperating in the investigation? A pressure tactic, perhaps? I don’t have kids, but certainly, if this were my little girl, I’d be cooperating with the investigators to the point of being a pain in the a§§.
There’s something rotten in Kansas City. This case is becoming more peculiar every day.
If someone had managed to open it quietly how could they have pulled themselves up and through the window then into the hall without making a sound?
After that they had to sneak down the hall and into the baby's room, grab the baby without waking it, also find the 3 cellophones and grab them then get back to the window and slither out with the baby in hand.
Possibly they could have exited out the door but that's even more chance of making noise.
You are correct, something smells.
The mom said the cell phones were on the kitchen counter. Wouldn’t have had to really hunt. Leaving lights on was weird.
This is a very suspicious case.
This kind of abduction is so rare—someone coming into the house and walking off with an infant—that the relatives become immediate suspects.