Also...notice the article says:Smart ran across the street to a home where there had been an attempted abduction years before.
Yet the Chief of Police says....""at the very beginning, these officers were trying to determine what sort of case they had."
Ed was telling the paper..there had been an attempted abduction there years before, and that is why he went to the neighbors...but Dinse says..THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT SORT OF CASE THEY HAD?.......Huh? Could it be AT THE TIME, Ed didn't tell him Elizabeth was missing? Laugh if you will, but going by this report, in context, the Chief of Police is saying at THIS TIME, they didn't know what kind of case they had.
If Ed had told 911 of an ABDUCTION..the WOULD HAVE KNOWN !!
Relax Neenah. The arriving officers were probably thinking it was a runaway regardless of what Ed told them.