Now, the little girl may also really BE terrified at this moment, if her older sister is dead and she has been instructed by someone she knows to tell the police a certain story. Time will tell.
Her sister said that she saw the suspect very clearly, which leads police to believe that it was not a family friend.
From story number #2...
"She saw a little bit of what was going on but she couldn't see him real clearly," he said.
These are in direct opposition to each other. The younger sister is what gives me my current opinions of what actually happened. Not to mention that the time of the 'kidnapping' is reported differently in the stories.
while you may be right, you can't discount the hide-under-the-bed terror factor!!