Here's my take on it, for what it's worth. I think whoever took the girl lives in the neighborhood, possibly a friend of the family. Or perhaps someone from the church they attend. (Example, the BTK killer who they just caught was very active and had a position in his local Lutheran Church.) I also think whoever did it could very possibly have known that the father wouldn't be there that night (he was going out with his sidekicks to party and didn't get home until about 6 am). Thus his not being there provided a good window of opportunity for the snatcher, knowing only the grandparents were in there and probably wouldn't notice or hear an abductor. Plus I think one of the family accidentally left a door or window unlocked that the abductor came in through. To stretch it a bit, if the abductor had been inside their home (as a handyman, friend, etc.), he/she could have intentionally unlocked a window on the QT. However, that's a bit of an assumption there. Well, hope they find the little girl. It doesn't pay these days to be an attractive little girl. Sad but true.
I might add that the perp could have tapped on her window and said "open the door". So she grabbed her doll baby and walked to the front door and opened it.
It could have been a boy she rode the school buss with, who knew the father wasn't home. Someone she knew and who knew the Dad wasn't home. Someone on foot.
Something else is nagging at me. Yesterday the Dad seemed to leave me with the impression that the Mother was a non existent factor in Jessica's life. But this morning, the distraught Mom said she spoke with the little girl every week on the phone. I don't get it?
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