That's kinda what I was thinking. It seems most families don't think much of a family member being absent on important holidays IF they have a good excuse for it. He could have made up just about any story to explain his absence and no one would have likely remembered it.
>>>That's kinda what I was thinking. It seems most families don't think much of a family member being absent on important holidays IF they have a good excuse for it. He could have made up just about any story to explain his absence and no one would have likely remembered it.>>>
This is very true. I think the family (his brother and ex-wife) are assuming if he did this, he must have just not shown up, which probably wouldn't have been case.
I also keep hearing people say he 'couldn't have done that, it's not his type' excuse. "We know he's mentally disturbed but not THAT mentally disturbed", but I don't know about that. If a person could IMAGINE themselves doing something, couldn't they do it? I mean the THOUGHT of strangling a little girl is enough to repulse 99% of us, but to imagine that you COULD and DID means you have it in you to do it, right?
I'm still just trying to wrap my head around all this myself. I have been fascinated with serial killers and the way they think for years. In the third grade I was reading graphic books about Jack the Ripper and the Black Dahlia because it fascinated me that a human could do that to another human. Life is so precious to me, I try to move bugs outdoors (except poisonous ones, then you are just dead, lol), but I can't imagine harming another human to that extent!! And who would have known... I'm still in shock.