[BushCountry]

Geez... why the cryptic message? Just show and tell her. FBI trolling for news.

[Jamestown1630]

It doesn’t appear that the FBI is the one who made the news public, but the mother.

[Alberta's Child]

See Post #7. I posted that reply to the wrong person.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Geez... why the cryptic message? Just show and tell her. FBI trolling for news."

I'm not sure what the FBI's rationale would be for dropping a cryptic hint like this to the family, but in fairness to them, it doesn't sound like the FBI trolled for news when it's the family that went to the media.

[Robert DeLong]

FBI trolling for news

The FBI did not contact the news. Sounds to me as if they believe she is alive, but still need to confirm it perhaps. If she were dead they would have broken that bad news I would think.

[11th_VA]

A *retired FBI Agent with the Los Angeles office weighed in on the notification and what it could mean for investigators and the family. "It does sound like they have found something with relatively definite information, whether it be good or bad, and the family certainly has a right to know. It sounds like that may have been exactly what the FBI was doing," said Tom Parker, a retired FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Los Angeles office. "It sounds like something extremely significant has happened or has been discovered, which would lead me to believe that they are right there on the edge of some kind of resolution."

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[Arones]

FBI trolling for news.

All levels of Law Enforcement LOVE publicity.

It is one of a handful of things that motivate them to act.