I agree, because they were there a lot, it made it very easy for employee's to mistake seeing them that day. Especially in the circumstance if they weren't interviewed right away, I wonder if they were. Even in being interviewed a few weeks later, it would be hard to say exactly what days you saw a regular.
Question 1) I read about it in an 1995 article in the Fay Observer, which was written by a childhood friend of the boys. So it was about 30 years after they went missing.
http://www.fayobserver.com/living/s...cle_ed1f0613-eac0-58de-8484-1802a6a8dfa2.html
It's been a while since I have read it, but it was actually Alan being asking for, not Terry, and it was multiple children knocking on the door, not just one friend (my mistake in remembering).
Question 2) It also doesn't mention why he was being punished, except that he was in his room.
The article also mentions that Terry was last seen riding his bike around 1 pm, and the step-father was seen driving out of the driveway at 4 pm. The step-father says the boys went to a double-feature which makes the time frame add up (4-8 pm), but what double feature was playing that night? Does the ticket person remember seeing them?
Questions about the theater "story":
Why did the step-father arrived 15 mins early? He told them he'd pick them up at 8 pm and arrived at 7:45.
Also he waited in a no-park zone, why? Especially since he arrived 15 mins early, people usually park in no-park zones when they'll be there temporarily, like for a few minutes. Seems to me he was looking for an alibi, to verify that he actually went to the theater that night. If he was there from 7:45-9:30 like he said, someone had to of witnessed a car sitting in a no-park zone for an hour and 45 mins.
He says he was there from 7:45-9:30, what was he doing in all that time? I'd say he'd probably get impatient, unless, you know,
he already knew the boys weren't coming out...
Did he ever go in the theater in this time? To ask the workers to call their names over an intercom or search for the boys?
The theater workers knew the family and their habits, why did some claim to have not seen them and others did? Another thing that doesn't add up about the theater story is that the mom was pretty strict about the boys being picked up from the theater, she told them to always wait inside and she'd come in and get them. This is why some theater workers were certain they didn't see them that night, because they knew the family and their mother's rules.
Missing brothers case is NC's oldest unsolved disappearance :: WRAL.com
The step-father would know his wife's rules about the boys waiting inside the theater when being picked up, right? What I don't understand is why the step-father waited
outside for the boys, he had been married to their mother so I'm assuming he might have known about her rule about making them wait inside the theater.
The whole "oh, their mother must have picked them up" assumption seems not right to me at all. For one, would'nt he be mad if the mom picked them up without telling him? I assume he told her he was picking them up when he told her where they were at when she got off work. I'd be mad if I had to wait somewhere for an hour and 45 mins.
Also wouldn't he had seen her pick them up if he was there for that long!? It seems like an opportunity to delay the investigation even further. He knew she was out with a friend, maybe even knew she'd be out a bit later. And on top of that it was storming that night, flooding and power outages due to a hurricane. I think Bock (the step father) knew what he was doing.
The uncle of the boys believes (if the Bock was responsible) that the murder was covered up because of Bock's status as a military policeman.
The mother spent some time in a psychiatric hospital after their disappearance, and the biological father of the boys committed suicide after struggling for years with depression. It's so sad.
Some useful information would be:
Why were the mother and the step-father separating? That could be telling, for example, if it was jealousy on his part that could
possibly be seen as a motive. She stayed out late with a friend and her children end up missing. Maybe he assumed she was out flirting with men or something and was using her sons as pawns to get back at her. Also, if the divorce wasn't his idea at all, that could be another reason. Did he remarry since then? Were there problems in his relationships since then?
Why was he at her house with the boys that day? Did she ask him to watch them while she was at work?
Why won't he talk about their disappearance to this day? He refuses to comment about the boys, suspicious or an attempt to move on from it?
Did the step-father drop them off outside the theater or walk them to the door/inside? If by chance the step-father wasn't involved, could they have been abducted before entering the theater. (I don't really think so).
Not relevant but worth mentioning- the Westerfield brothers weren't the only sibling duo to go missing from a double-feature during this time, the Grimes sisters went missing from Brighton Theater in Brighton Park, Chicago in 1956, 8 years prior to the brothers disappearance. They were found murdered weeks later though.
