Not sure who the minions would be, but it's possible that his family doesn't recognize certain things that would tip others off.
The possible scenarios are more diverse than just what you have described. However, I'm not a statistician so I cannot state how common or rare it is for someone to disappear in broad daylight and be murdered where there are no factors such as revenge, lover's quarrel's, financial gain (to the killer) or the like. Steven had nothing to his name and from all accounts he not a criminal at all.
It made no sense that he was duped into a side job in SCA. If he was looking at Craigslist or the like, why is it not in the usage history on the computer? We still don't know what is on there and the fact that no one is sharing any of it leads me to believe there is something they consider embarrassing.
Do they really want to find him alive? Who cares about embarassment? They refuse to share anything that might be considered negative and focus on what a good church-going guy he was looking for work. So they would rather believe that their "good" family member is dead rather than have people look for him (dead or alive) with any perceived stain on his reputation.
Unless people know where to look for him, then it makes it pretty difficult to find him. This includes whether people like to drink, gamble, go to strip clubs, gay or straight dating sites, dreams of travel or career change or the like.
So long as the family and their minions keep secrets, then he will remain unfound.
Let's say for the sake of discussion JZ was into drugs and Steven was dead set against it. Why would JZ (or anyone connected to him) wait until Steven was in another state to do him harm? That brings in the feds and that just does not seem to be a likely scenario. Many people, and I do mean many people, are aware that neighbors are into drugs or other unsavory activities. Few people wind up dead as a result.
Even neighbors who are actively feuding rarely resort to murder. I don't see a guy like JZ pulling anything off like that.
As for the other thing you described, I have not posted anything on the Susan Powell thread and I don't think there is any connection between the two other than their both being Mormons from Utah disappearing within a short period of time between one another.
I think in SP's case there was strong evidence of a murder but nothing that they were able to pin on anyone. Here we have no evidence of a murder. Just a video tape of Steven walking down the street leaving his car behind and then cell phone pings that show his phone moving to another part of LV later that day. Far from concluding murder, I think it shows that he and his phone were in someone else's car.
none of these cases are anything at all like what has been discussed here. What some have theorized is that Steven was causally strolling down the street, saw something he should not have seen and was murdered for it.
case 1. here involved pot growers shooting a burglar. I doubt Steven was a burglar.
case 2. here involved a revenge killing where the children were targeted based on who their father was.
case 3. here involved a gun battle that took out innocent people.
From what I could gather bodies were all recovered. If Steven witnessed something ANYONE walking their dog could have done the same and the area would be a ghost town by now with missing persons.
I could almost believe an alien abduction over some of the theories being thrown about here.
I guess it is time for me to go into hibernation again until more facts surface. I really had hoped the ping data would have led to better discussions here but I guess I underestimated the resistance of those who absolutely want to believe he is dead.
I would say the fundamentals havn't been covered on information that hasn't been made available and should have been. If not for swjaxon I would have bailed awhile back and let whoever has the information sit on it or whatever they're doing. They after all are supposed to be the people affected by SK's disappearance.
jaxon has seen (lists of) thousands of emails of SK's, but we are told elsewhere he didn't have an internet connection at rented room. That right there ought to be a red flag that I wouldn't pass until contradiction explained. Thousands of emails say who he was in communiction with, when (which implies to some degree where), and what about, and we have zero information on that because "SK didn't have an internet connection".
If the emails are old then fine, but it also doesn't mean squat as far as that they are 99% oriented to job hunting. That was old also. If they are recent then the guy had to be living in libraries to send many emails with allegedly no internet connection. They say things about what his most recent communications were. To have some blanket "they don't tell us anything" is from quite frankly people that don't know what they're talking about. If they want to sit on it, fine, but I'm not wasting my time on them.
There are dial-up internet connections which I have used as recently as two years ago and still have as far as that goes (I have many computers and internet providers and modes of communication - the gamut, I had my reasons for it). Dial-up is serviceable for email but does require a landline for local calls which he may not have had access to at the rental. But the emails will tell that.
My thanks to swjaxon for insight that puts into doubt so many things we have been told, basically don't worry about it, just look for Steven.
I think the people here have done more without withheld information than anything I've seen before. My hat's off to this group.
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I'm sorry for not being more clear.
Steve does have thousands of emails in his inbox from job hunting sites, responses from prospective employers, family, etc. Most are job hunting and unread (daily alerts from certain job websites). He opened the ones that looked interesting. But it doesn't look like he had internet access at his home. There aren't a lot of sent emails, and of those, they're very spaced out. He wasn't prompt in responding to people. Same with his Facebook. Just not a lot of activity.
I'm sorry for not being more clear.
Steve does have thousands of emails in his inbox from job hunting sites, responses from prospective employers, family, etc. Most are job hunting and unread (daily alerts from certain job websites). He opened the ones that looked interesting. But it doesn't look like he had internet access at his home. There aren't a lot of sent emails, and of those, they're very spaced out. He wasn't prompt in responding to people. Same with his Facebook. Just not a lot of activity.
If he was that active on his computer for these job searches, why is there nothing on there about a trip to LV in general or SCA in particular? He did not show up there by mistake. He had to get directions somehow. If not by looking at a site like mapquest, then he got them by phone. Yet there is nothing from any website for travel nor any unindentified phone calls?
To me it shows that he purposely hid this trip from his laptop history and cell phone. Thus there is nothing accidental about the outcome here, IMO.
December 2009 Disappearance of Steven Koecher Continues to Baffle Family and Authorities
Read more: KCSG - December 2009 Disappearance of Steven Koecher Continues to Baffle Family and Authorities
continue here.....
http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story...er-Continues-to-Baffle-Family-and-Authorities
Boy... That story looks familiar...
But he didn't hide the trip. He told both GW and SA where he was.
It sure does. That's your January 24th 8newsnow story. ????
Boy... That story looks familiar...
Wow. Is that brazen or what.