Recent content by woodlawn

Yes. The 'Information Packet' that was handed out at the news conference on the 11th and has been linked to upthread: http://www.mymcpnews.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Info-Packet-Lyon.pdf on page 5, under Help Needed From the Public, it says Though 'day of' is perhaps not conclusive...

I don't want to derail this thread...this study: http://www.atg.wa.gov/uploadedFiles/Another/Supporting_Law_Enforcement/Homicide_Investigation_Tracking_System_%28HITS%29/Child_Abduction_Murder_Research/CMIIPDF.pdf is long, but one I'm sure many folks here are familiar with (or if one is not...

As this case has bothered me a great deal, I want to say how grateful I am that authorities continued to pursue this and appear now do have a real, viable 'suspect' (person of interest). The 'Tape Recorder Man' was always, not to put too fine a point on it, so much nonsense. (A position I...

:rolleyes: http://hudsonvalley.ynn.com/content/news/699027/bones-found-in-east-greenbush-home-are-that-of-a-deer/

As s/he said s/he was a teacher in California, I assume EQ is earthquake. (ie an earthquake drill.) Apologies if I'm in error or speaking out of turn.

I posted my 'theory' (if that's not too dignified a word for it) some pages ago, so won't repeat, but I'm in general agreement with what you've said and am working from the premise the person responsible for this is local, lives in Jessica's neighborhood, and is familiar with both areas. Re: the...

I understand your frustration, especially when there's very little information available we all have a tendency to parse every word that comes out of LE's mouth to try to create a coherent whole. But as has been noted, this is fairly standard copspeak in such situations. But it's also true that...

Agree 100%. To me (commences free speculation) despite the seeming deftness of being able to abduct this child on a very short stretch of road in broad daylight without any (known) witnesses, the very odd behavior of apparently keeping the backpack for 36+ hours, then leaving it in plain sight...

Between the circumstances that allowed the automated call to go unheard, to the snowfall possibly covering the items, to this, much precious time has been lost along the way. This is all unfolding like a slow tragedy, I fear. Pit-of-stomach feeling. My heart goes out to her family.

I don't think it's at all cool to be second-guessing this poor woman for letting a 10 year walk three blocks to school. Some folks obviously feel differently, but is this really the time or place? This was not remotely negligent on her part, so common decency, it seems to me, is to show...

Which is why I posted in off-beat news, rather than a place where it might be taken too seriously as a diagnostic or investigative tool. I seriously doubt it's as simple as all that, or that there's some one-to-one relationship between sense of smell and psychopathology, but as we learn more...

http://www.criticalmass.uk.com/index.php/2012/09/21/psychopaths-have-an-impaired-sense-of-smell-study-suggests/

There are others here with far more encyclopedic knowledge than I possess, but it is (especially among pre-teens) exceptionally rare. Off the top of my head I can think of the Lyon sisters in Maryland in 1975 and two Australian cases both from the 60s/70s: the three Beaumont children who...

I tried to do a good, thorough search before posting, and this thread seems 'least inappropriate' [?] but if there's a better place than this thread, or folks feel it doesn't belong, mods should feel free to move/split, etc. As the article says, the human mind has a powerful bias to glean...

Wow. This story, which I think a lot of people were justifiably skeptical about, just acquired a lot more credibility. http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/7286347/otl-audio-tape-bernie-fine-wife-admits-worries-abuse Much, much more at link.