I agree that this is no ordinary case. Your statement about "dark evidence" is tantalizing. What do you think it might be?
My initial intuitive hit on this girl, based on looking into her unhappy looking eyes in all of her photos, was that she left on her own volition, for which I've been flamed over and over. Now the police have "ruled it out," so obviously they were exploring that avenue. And perhaps still are. Why don't the police give a lie detector test to the younger sister?
BTW, our family has a large Mormon contingent, most of whom are pillars of community and church, but one daughter went very wrong, so I know that even in the best of families, kids do weird things. Elizabeth may not have participated in her own disappearance, but it would probably be more hopeful if she had.
The police just said they believe the suspect is still in the area. Rumors that the nine year old sister was taken away from the house were not true.
Michael