Posted on 06/17/2002 7:40:10 AM PDT by Rodney King
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:33:59 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
How does this other nonsense even get started?
With the Ramsey's and VD's, freepers are mostly using facts to draw conclusions from, and those conclustions seem reasonable to me as well.
In THIS case however, freepers are straining at the most trivial of items to try and justify filling in the blanks with their own pet theory. Many of them have decided it was the Uncle, and force every thing to fit their theory. Never mind that the screen was NOT cut from the inside, never mind that the POLICE aren't pushing for an artist (or the many reason why are not), never mind that this is a huge strain on the whole family.
The POLICE, not the family, are keeping a tight lid on the information, and the wise person will not judge with only part of the story.
Well, start with someone who spends 10 hours a day in front of a computer instead of engaging in "real" life, add lots of caffeine drinks and crunchy snacks, and before you know it.... conspiracy du jour!
Like I said, stranger things have happened than a mid-life change in religious beliefs.
What makes you think he picked that girl ahead of time? What is so hard about sneaking around quietly? You don't have to know the place ahead of time, in fact he might have been looking for a different room (a home office?) and took the girl because he went to the WRONG room. Also, the house was for sale, and being renovated, so LOTS of STRANGERS had been there, and the floor plan was even online I think.
My kids sleep like the dead, and I if I wanted I could pick them up and put them in the car and drive off without them even waking up. I can also go in, wake them up, ask questions, get answers, let them go back to sleep and they will have NO memory of it in the morning.
The police have ruled out her being a runaway, and your third idea is not credible either. Those who practice polygamy do so against the law and do everything they can to fly under the radar. They don't steal kids, they recuit adults and child-brides are from other polygamous families. There is NOTHING to suggest any connection with polygamy and you are only using old steriotypes to speculate instead of facts.
Look, obviously you are a Mormon....but this has NOTHING to do with her being a Mormon as to what Freepers are speculating on.....common sense says that something is WRONG. When the police came there were about 10 COUPLES already there. Were the police THAT slow or were the couples called BEFORE the police were called?
If I called a friend and said that my child was taken from her bedroom I would PRAY that my friends would be out looking and NOT just at the house. Take off your Mormon hat and put on your LAW hat....just for a SECOND!
Yes. That's part of what Mormons do, pray as a family once or twice a day. At 7:45am you will find me and my family kneeling together in prayer.
And then *ding* he remembers he left the garage door open half the day?
No, read befor you post, he rememberd and closed the garage door before he went to bed. He told the police all of this in his first interview but it is only now being released to the public.
This garage door story is another red herring thrown into the path of the investigators- I don't think it will slow them down very much.
In my original post I suggested that the list of suspects should include people who have performed work inside the house such as painters and electricians. I don't know whether the hosue was actually on the market at the time the girl disappeared, but if so, I would include real estate brokers and their clients on the list of suspects.
I also find it hard to believe that the perp was in the house looking for a home office, stumbled upon the girl and decided right then and there to add kidnapping to the the potential burglary charge.
My final theory is no doubt far fetched, but given the success of conventional wisdom in finding the girl, you ought not be so harsh on me. And BTW, I didn't suggest that she was stolen, but rather that I was simply speculating upon a motive for her disappearance in the event that a member of her family is on the list of suspects.
Liz is gone, so of course something is wrong. It's a fact however that the police are not letting out much information, so to try and make judgements about who is guilty when you don't have all the information is WRONG too. Too many of you are filling in the blanks your own way with nothing facutaly to support you. You speak in the tone of experts about things that you clearly are not familiar with and it's getting tiresome.
When the police came there were about 10 COUPLES already there. Were the police THAT slow or were the couples called BEFORE the police were called?
No, Mormons just form much closer communities and neighbours are not strangers. Also, I'm not going to call the police about something unless I'm sure they are needed. For the parents to search the house and check with neighbours where Liz's friends live first is not at all odd. Even with the 9 year old saying she was taken, that is not something a parent will want to belive. Perhaps the fact that Mormons are so willing to get up and help eachother is what is odd to you, but it is certainly NOT even close to being a sign of something amiss if you understand Mormon culture.
It is relevant because it places the last time the family can vouch for seeing each other.
I agree with you. I am real surprised that he went by himself, instead of being with his other children and his wife. I'm wondering if the story is beginning to unravel.
Maybe I am just jaded because I have known other families that held dark secrets.
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