[MozarkDawg]

My guess is the Girl is pregnant ....

The first thought that came to the mind of my husband when he heard the extremely forceful statement from the father about how his 14-year-old daughter "didn't like boys, wanted NOTHING to do with them!" I didn't see it, but Hub said the father almost spat out the words, sounded angry. I don't know what question had been asked or the context.

[Iwo Jima]

I didn't hear the comment about Elizabeth not liking boys, but I did hear the father go on and on about how his daughter was such an angel. It had a strong "the lady dost protest too much, methinks" quality to it.

I did not think anything untoward about it at the time, just noted it. I thought "if a father wants to think such lofy thoughts about his own daughter, what harm can there be in that?" Now I am looking back on those and similar comments by other family members and think that they held more clues than I was able to detect at the time. Now it seems that he waas being defensive and that what he really wanted to say was "There is no way that Elizabeth would do what it will eventually be come to be thought that she did."

[Grig]

"My guess is the Girl is pregnant ..."

The LDS Church operates it's own social services agency that deals with situation like that in a very postive way, there would be no need for them to deal with it like this, so that theory doesn't hold water IMHO.

[valkyrieanne]

The first thought that came to the mind of my husband when he heard the extremely forceful statement from the father about how his 14-year-old daughter "didn't like boys, wanted NOTHING to do with them!" I didn't see it, but Hub said the father almost spat out the words, sounded angry. I don't know what question had been asked or the context.

Again, this might be a part of the profilers' work in scripting the family's public pronouncements. Perhaps it's necessary for the perp to believe that his captive is a sweet, innocent child. In short, all these public pronouncements are probably NOT for our benefit. The #1 priority is to get the girl back alive. If that means painting themselves blue, putting bones through their noses, and whistling Dixie, the family will no doubt do it, even though it makes them look like idiots.