You mean like Susan Smith...who said a negro abducted her two kids?
You mean like the Runaway Bride?
Wait..wait...you mean like the recent case where a lady said she was carjacked and put in the trunk?
You mean like....oh nevermind.
Come on Soccermom....something smells here. How could a twelve year old kid walk off by himself and disappear?
Every one of those people you described were adults with no witnesses around. This was a kid with a group. How could a 12-year-old disappear? Kids get lost in the terrain all the time. Heck, adults get lost on hiking trips. It happens.