[Devil_Anse]

Ed is very far from deserving a pedestal, that's for sure!

But knowing what we know now, I think his only real faults in this thing are perhaps stupidity and naivete.

You know, we've all noticed that Ed and Tom are weird. Could weirdness run in the family? Maybe poor Elizabeth is a little bit off, too--that is, suggestible and susceptible to delusion?

That thing about the cousin is mind-blowing. I wonder, also, if maybe Mitchell had plans for MARY CATHERINE?
I would think that he got the cousin's address from Elizabeth. If she was deluded, or intimidated, or brainwashed, or drugged, enough to follow the psycho and his "wife" around, then she'd have done what he told her--and maybe she gave him the cousin's name to please him. Frightening.

[spectre]

Hi Devil..

MHO on why he didn't take Mary Catherine, is that she didn't fit the bill, IOW's wasn't mature enough for his needs and purposes. A nine-year old may have been way too young to take as a wife...(OK, neither was a 14 year-old..but nevertheless)..

My interest lies in finding out if Elizabeth had any contact or interaction with her abductor BEFORE she was kidnapped. I guess it would all begin then. One step at a time.

Of course, her very structured life, may have been a contributing factor in any rebellion, IF (and that is a HUGE "IF") she was taken with him, literally.

I'm looking for answers.

sw