When I worked for a school district in CALIF, I had a brother-sister who came home from school one day (they were about 7 and 8 - and found the house totally empty and parents gone. They clung to each other like they were afraid one would disappear at any moment.Sometimes, I wonder that stoning is too good...
Why were they gone. Walked out? Both mugged? When I was a knee high to a grasshopper red neck my folks told me that "if they were taken away by a UFO" I should go to a certain neighbor.