Maybe he had a key. Maybe he was a locksmith. He could have been somebody who had worked around the house, been inside, etc. Whoever he was, this thing didn't happen on the spur of the moment. This was a cunning predator who had probably been stalking this girl (her and her family's routines, what time the parents left, school routes, etc.) and scoping out this house for some time. He looked for and found a weakness and then exploited it.
It pays for us parents to always be alert to our surroundings. Paranoid as it might sound, I have had times where it seemed like a car was following me (I'm sure we've all had this experience) for an uncomfortable amount of time and down a lot of coincidental odd roads and I purposefully lose them and take another route before going home. Better safe than sorry.
The media asked him about a key; was there a hidden one outside that somebody might have found or known about? He said there was a hidden key, but it was found undisturbed in the hiding place. If there is a known individual with a key to the house, by now the family would have told the police about it, and that person would be strongly looked at. Could it have been a locksmith? Anything is possible. But that would really narrow down the list of possibles, and all known locksmiths would immediately be looked at.
I do think the family could have been observed, and the girl stalked, for some time. Or else this was somebody Jessica knew and trusted. It was another poster who theorized that she was choloroformed while sleeping, clutching her stuffed Dolphin, and taken silently from the home. One poster said the Weiner dog liked to burrow itself deep under covers and sleep, so maybe it heard nothing.
My focus was on how did the person get in, then, know their way around the dark house, etc. My very first post suggested a perp might have tapped on her window, awakened her, and told her that dad needed her outside, that he was sick or hurt, or needed her to open the front door, or something like that, and if she knew and trusted him, she would've done it. Then he clamps a drug rag over her face, puts her to sleep and carries her away.
Who knows? But something happened. Some suspect the dad. He says he passed a voice stress test. Somebody said he passed a lie-detector test, which is not the same thing as a voice stress test. Lie-detector means polygraph.
I don't like it that the police keep saying, look, there's no evidence she was even abducted, so we're scaling back the search.
HUH? Are they hinting the girl ran away? Yeah, riiiight. If they mean maybe the dad or granddad is suspected, that would still be an abduction. She WAS taken from the home and has disappeared into thin air.