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Sheesh! You know what I think? That FReepers oughta have their own TV station. We won't go on the air until we HAVE all the FACTS right.....

So....this man that they are saying was a homeless man was not really a homeless man but a friend of the father's??? Or was he a homeless man who was staying at the home of the friend of the father's? YIKES...

I just report what I hear - and even the cops were confused about the housing arrangement - Here's what I heard the girl's grandpa say - what I got out of it...He (grandpa)does not know the red haired guy - but the gal who rented (not owned as I implied before) the house next door where they all stayed did know the red haired guy - his family - he was like down on his luck and staying there - the grandpa said he was not like a stranger in the house - all the people in the house knew each other somewhat.

This is what I've been able to determine from a variety of local media. (I'm watching another interview with the father on KSDK) The parents were estranged. Family friends have been working with them on reconciling. The father was staying with friends in a home across the street. According to an interview I saw with the mother, the kids wanted are very close to their father, and wanted to stay where he was, so that the kids and the mother all spent the night in these friends house across the street. The father was sleeping in the same room with Cassie. She woke up and asked for a bowl of cereal. The father says that the red-headed man was sleeping on the couch in the living room (family has named him as Johnny Johnson, which the PD is not too happy that his name is out there.)

Father says that Cassie was in the kitchen, Johnson in living room when he went to the bathroom. When he came out of the bathroom they were both gone. The PD found Johnson coming out of Meramec River, and he said that he had been swimming. He was or currently is being questioned, however the PD insists that he is not a suspect. The Williamson family apparently does not know this Johnson person well.