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James is Terri's eldest son, who is living with his bio dad & his wife on a horse ranch and has become active in 4-H.

Turns out that at least one poster in the very first threads wondered if Terri was trying to protect someone in her own family, either her son or her dad.

So even by 6/6 or thereabouts, plenty of posters were presumably already finding her behavior very peculiar.

Like you, I wonder what role severe PPD may have played, and if she was severely depressed, she could have misinterpreted all manner of events. I've read some posters wonder if she felt like the "House Nanny" - and that would be particularly difficult to deal with if one had severe PPD and/or one was 'certain' that her husband was having an office affair.

Quite a few posters today mentioned that one does NOT send a teenaged stepson to his grandparents, there were LOTS of parents in blended families who were adament about this.

Fact is, though, it seems that James is allegedly doing spectacularly well and his stepmom is teaching him all about horses, so it seems to be an ideal home environment??????

Frankly, I seriously worry that this was a stranger abduction and that it is way too late to switch the focus of investigation.

I can't begin to imagine how anyone could harm a child they've raised since it was a tiny toddler??????

I admit that if any of the adults write personal accounts of this vile experience, that I will be inclined to purchase copies & read them, there are simply so many enigmas....

Frankly, I seriously worry that this was a stranger abduction and that it is way too late to switch the focus of investigation.

That could very well be the case and the LE has spent so much time on Terri that they can't admit they're wrong. With just that 4 hours between when she left the school and the pictures were posted, well, that doesn't leave much time to do the deed and cover it up. Wasn't she seen at some store that morning? What time was that? That would cut even more into the window of opportunity. Unless there was a pre-arranged third party quick drop off, then I'm leaning more and more toward Terri just might be innocent and something more sinister happened. What if he thought he was supposed to go with Terri that morning but she'd already left? What if he was out wandering around in the parking lot looking for her and some creep came along? There were a lot of people at the school that day and no one would notice a stranger luring a kid into a car.