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.