cherrymeg
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I don’t think they are the same people. I think the ransom call might have been a cruel prank. The buttered phrase seems like something you would hear in an old gangster movie. The person that arranged for her to babysit must have sounded trustworthy enough for her parents to agree to her going there. It could be the same person trying to throw people off. There are fake ransom calls when people go missing. She was supposed to meet or get picked up in a certain car after getting off the bus. Where details about the car a lie? If the the person that kidnapped her never saw her would he show up in a red VW Beetle or would he look for a girl getting off the bus and call out her name? Also why that bus, why that location? Was it convenient or familiar? I wonder what made the father trust the man? A man making calls to schedule babysitting and canceling once might make people suspicious. If people were more trusting in the 70s they might find it odd that a man is scheduling a babysitter and canceling once. Something must have sounded true when he called about needing a sitter. Either he had kids and a wife or he borrowed someone else’s life story.Totally agree. Something must connect all the dots on this thing. I think because LE didn't seem to really start looking into the phonecall until quite some time later that any lead they may have was mighty cold.
I'm also not totally convinced that the "buttered topping" phrase is enough of a clue to discern identity. I think this person had probably seen one of the Home Pride adverts and just used this phrase instead of say "the icing on the cake".