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Good thoughts. The beard, as seen in the two different pictures, seems to bear out your theory of his having shaved it around the time of the abduction.

However, remember Angela saw him at the Kinko's just hours after Elizabeth disappeared. On TV, she didn't say one way or the other, whether the man she saw had a beard.

He may have had the beard at the time he entered the house, then have shaved it immediately upon getting to his hiding place (with Elizabeth.) That would fit in with what a lot of criminals do, anyway--change their appearance directly after the crime.

In spite of our many assumptions about what Mary C. said, we don't really KNOW exactly what she said. There is nothing to definitively tell us that Mary C. described the man as clean-shaven--or that she described him as bearded, for that matter. We've never heard it straight from her--only distorted, 2nd and 3rd and probably 4th hand reports.

There is nothing to definitively tell us that Mary C. described the man as clean-shaven--or that she described him as bearded, for that matter.

True. Except when reporting a man's features one reports the unusuals not the usuals or non-existing features. So, if MK had seen a beard she would have reported it by default. Not that it makes any difference now that the perp is in jail.

Also, Elizabeth's aunt at the Kinko store I just read it on CNN and gives her name as Angela Smart. However, yesterday, she was reported as Angela Dumke. I guess she's married to Dumke. So many names to keep track of.