There is a chance they made it to the mall and were followed outside. With packages in their hands, they probably weren’t aware of their environment. Do they have a favorite store they like to visit? Or perhaps they stopped at an ice cream place in the mall and someone overheard their conversation, and decided they were easy marks? Could you check videos?
I see so many elderly people shopping by themselves and can only imagine how easy it would be for someone to hurt them. Creeps pray on the very young and old.
We’ve checked all the videos of locations that we thought they’d been. Nothing.
The fact that credit cards have not been tried might lead one to think a car accident. They didn’t have a whole lot of money on them and the car was not that well prized by car jackers, but anything could have happened.
Also, car jackers are a bit sparse in the areas most likely for them to have gone.
I have reservations about the car jacker/thief idea. If criminal, it could have been a lot closer to home-Otterbien. It could have been something else as well.