Do you have a link where LE said that Ellie? I must have missed that.
I know recently LE said they are not ruling out an abduction. There was a link to that on the last thread somewhere.
IMO
I can understand. Some people are not comfortable sharing their grief with strangers. Motive? I think that's a bit ironic. Just witness how their every move, word and expression is picked apart here and elsewhere.
I don't know if it's a 'southern thing' but the funeral homes down here have separate rooms with privacy louvers (not sure how else to describe them) where immediate family (or anyone, I suppose) can view the service without being front and center in the chapel. That's the first thing I thought of when I read this.
Good morning - hoping for break throughs today, and that Kyron will be found.
That said, I am pretty heavy hearted - Hope it's okay I let go here for a moment. I am staying positive as much as possible, but with the timeline, it is getting harder and harder to feel they are looking for Kyron alive. I am only a couple of days as a member here at WS, so I hope to not deflate by posting something so negative, but over the last 2 days, I can't stop thinking about the presser where LE gets emotional, hiding tears, voice cracking (was it the first one or the second one?). Something seems to be clicking in my deductions that since that moment, some tip must have come about to make this an "isolated incident" potentially with an idea of Kyron's fate, and therefore difficult for the parents to come forward with a plea for help without giving anything away to a potential person of interest. Like, LE had an idea even then of who would lure Kyron out of the school, and that the outcome is grim. I can only imagine how hard it would be if it was likely that my child was perhaps dead and I had to put on a face to the community asking for their hopes and prayers, how impossible it would be without losing it or giving an emotion away that could defeat their investigation.
I feel awful, but I do very much now think that an RSO is involved, someone who fits an "earn trust of victim" MO, and that he either somehow got into contact with this family or the school, and found his opportunity on the day of the fair. Maybe he's never killed, but I am sure LE checked all local RSO's ASAP in this case. Maybe someone seemed highly suspicious, but denying involvement, and in the early stages, LE hoped Kyron was still alive, perhaps hidden, and if they gave appearance of believing the RSO in the hopes of gleaning more information to get the perp, they could save Kyron.
But that emotional presser seems to me that they were pretty concerned and fearful that a bad person had done something bad, and now they have to keep on with the search and get more tips to pressure the guy to reveal something.
Just thoughts. There's so much speculation out there right now on the webs, especially with the localized Sauvie's Island search - a place I was going to take my parents when they visit next weekend until all this started - that some theories and non-WS postings have gotten me thinking that LE has to be following some lead, and it most likely is something that didn't add up when questioning an RSO. Maybe LE felt comfortable letting the kids back the following Monday because someone was being held for questioning.
Who knows!
All I know is that I HOPE I am wrong. I am so horrified by so many of the crimes I hear about, and who ends up being responsible is often devastating. Loving Portland as I do, this child is a child of all of Portland right now, and frankly, I pray that he is returned alive and well and able to continue his life with the beautiful energy we have come to love about him. But I am entering a preparation phase because actions over the last few days by LE do lead me to believe that Sauvie's Island cannot be a mere wild goose chase....someone has raised their concerns, in my opinion.
I fear this case will go cold...
Just like many other cases. I keep watching/waiting for something big to happen, and... nothing.
Please, Kyron - lead them to you, sweetie... raying:
Do you have a link where LE said that Ellie? I must have missed that.
I know recently LE said they are not ruling out an abduction. There was a link to that on the last thread somewhere.
IMO
I always thought that was the "cry room" or for breastfeeding, wiggly toddlers etc., but I could be wrong.
IMO, this family's obsession with privacy is being taken so far, it makes me think of people who have a phobia about being in public. Is it called agoraphobia? From what we've seen of the family's history of being invloved in public lives at work, school and online, that makes no sense to me.
There is a difference between being private and hiding. Private people avoid deep coversations or don't talk about personal lives. People who hide are exhibiting fear of being "discovered", IMO.
Hands up any of those who feel completely frustrated by this case.
I am a big supporter of LE, even in cases where others here have taken up against them, BUT...I am beginning to feel that unless they are following up on a specific person right now, that they need to be a little more open with the public. I don't see how it can jeopordize a case against an offender to clear up a few facts, if they in fact have no idea who the offender is. I know, I know, everyone keeps saying they don't want the perp to know what they know...but not sure how it helps perp/hurts LE to indicate once and for all, what time Kyron was last seen (if they know); if it was by someone other than stepmother; and why they keep calling this an "isolated case." Any whatever else they could clear up without affecting the case.
I have assumed since Sunday that they have been following a specfic trail leading to a specific unknown perp, but the more time goes by, I am almost back to thinking they do not have a plan or a suspect/POI. And if this is true, and the silence continues to deafen us, the case will grow cold, no matter what they say. JMO
My personal opinions on this case swing from the far left to the far right as I read the few facts that we have confirmed. I accept that LE owes us, Joe Public, absolutely nothing ito information, especially when they know that it could jeaopardize the case. But I feel positively Bipolar the way my opinion keeps swinging like a pendulum from one possibility to another on the opposite side.
We KNOW it's a CONFIRMED isolated incident and we KNOW LE said they didn't suspect it was a stranger abduction. But that grey area in between is driving me nuts.
Hands up any of those who feel completely frustrated by this case. Because, at the end of the day, Kyron is still missing. And nobody (that matters anyway) knows where he is.
Kyron’s parents and stepparents watched the vigil from a private room.
I cannot even imagine dealing with the soft words, gentle touches and tearful, well-meaning hugs of folks at a time like that. Each small kindness would make me break down. Emotionally, I just could not handle that. Some folks need to withdraw a bit from that sort of outpouring else they would fall apart. Have you ever felt so raw and scared and hurt and helpless that you feared if you started crying you wouldn't stop? If you let yourself break, even a little, you would literally have a mental breakdown? People react diferently to such a circumstance. Sometimes, the emotion is just plain too raw, too near the surface to deal with.
Add to that people you don't even know all over teh nation pointing and staring and speculating that you have done something wrong. These are regular people, not celebrities. They are not accustomed to being in the media spotlight and under that sort of microspoce.
Whatever the reason they needed a quiet space to retire to during the vigil. I do not fault them for that. I pray for them.
I don't see how it can jeopordize a case against an offender to clear up a few facts, if they in fact have no idea who the offender is.
I think an arrest will be made sooner than you think.
I never remember LE coming out and ruling the Walsh parents out and I don't even remember them doing so in Paulie Klass' case even though Mark Klass said later that he had taken a poly and passed but I don't even think LE revealed that at the time when they had not found the real suspect.
I know they didn't do it in the Lunsford or Greone case either.
IMO
Do you have a link where LE said that Ellie? I must have missed that.
I know recently LE said they are not ruling out an abduction. There was a link to that on the last thread somewhere.
IMO
I would think probably safety. If I were experiencing the vehemence the stepmother is right now, and I were any of the four of them, I would definitely avoid crowds and situations in which I were not physically protected, particularly if I had other children to take care of.