Is there more background on Henry Blair ? He seems credible, what made the police rule him out exactly ?
Mark.
I was actually thinking about that this morning as I was checking for updates in Amy's case. Theories that seemed to be talked about are:
1) Biker Theory
2)Hitch Hiked with the wrong person/Serial Killer
3)Taken to a party where she over dosed on drugs
But what exactly made police rule out Henry Blair Johnson?
Amy wrote in her diary about a man named Hank who would take her to South America some day. Blair's nickname was Hank, and he had had connections with South America because he worked for US Customs Department (he over saw drug interdiction at the Port of Miami), where it required him to move to South America around the time Amy vanished. A photo developed from a roll of film from Amy's camera showed a van that resembled Johnson's.
I decided to look up human trafficking through out the years in Latin and South America, and I have found Brazil is a VERY ACTIVE place for human trafficking. So active, in fact, it is a place where women from all over are taken and sold abroad to Spain, Netherlands, etc.
Here is an article with a little more about it:
http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Brazil-2.htm
Here is another account of a girl captured into human trafficking at the age of 9, and how she survived over 18 years of it. Human trafficking was alive and thriving in the 70s, because no one paid attention to the issue. What if Amy was sold into human trafficking by Henry "Hank" Blair Johnson? What if she is still alive? I know that's a long shot, and a scary on because she could be anywhere in the world.
http://www.expatdailynews.com/2010/06/sex-trafficking-in-latin-america.html
As for why he was ruled out, that is hard to determine because it is really not talked about anywhere. Charley Project states
He has not been positively linked to Amy, and the FBI stated an inquiry was pending but does this mean he was ruled out, or not? I can't find if that was ever answered..
I think he could have been involved in some dirty work like that, he knew the drug interdiction for 24 years, so he had the resources to make those connections, and get away with it. I wish I could have found more info. on him or sex slavery rings linking from the US to South America in the 70s, but there really is not too much to be found, because this issue was very hush-hush.
Could this incident and Amy's journal writings be a coincidence??? I really do feel there could be a connection here...
but how would Amy have met him? They did not have anything "online" back then, did she know him through someone else?..and Amy was so close to graduating from high school, which would align with the time frame for her wanting to maybe leave to explore the world, but it does not seem likely she would leave to do that without telling her parents. It does not seem like she would have the heart to keep them wondering forever.
I would have liked to have Johnson investigated more because I don't think those journal entries were coincidence with the fact that he would spend 20+ years harassing her mother. I know it said he was an alcoholic and had OCD, but there had to have been another driving factor.
Unfortunately, we may never find the answer because I think he already passed, if this is in fact him:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ne...?n=henry-johnson-blair&pid=86746208&fhid=6703
Any thoughts on Henry Blair Johnson??