Unless she didn't plan it at all. My theory is that this was planned by him and she was not a part of it until the last minute. I believe she received distressing news possibly from him and she left in a panic to help him without realizing what she was getting herself into. It's also possible that once she met him, she is also being held against her will.I'm a 59 year old mom with 4 grown children. I'm trying to put myself in the mom's shoes. They are going off to Italy, probably as a graduation present to Nadia. Mom probably paid for the airline tickets, hotels, etc. ahead of time. Mom is at gate and very excited to spend time with her daughter to Italy, what a dream vacation. They are at the gate and Nadia goes to restroom, but never returns to gate? Mom must have been hysterical by the time boarding was done. If this was planned, how could Nadia have her mom pay for all that, knowing trip wasn't going to happen? And to have her mom involved, hopefully innocently, is very, very cruel. I just can't fathom how both the fiancee' and his daughter are missing at the same time as Nadia and that they are not connected. They must be. Us sleuthers have seen this scenario way too many times and the outlook doesn't look good. Best scenario is two aren't connected: fiance got lost "fishing" and will be safely found with daughter and Nadia will be found at a friend's house. I live in the area and if the sightings are that she has been seen in Fife, then that could be troubling. Fife is very teeny and known for having a huge casino, along with cheap motels, prostitution, and drugs. I wonder if this was planned and they are holed up in a cheap motel there.
Maybe she was none the wiser to her fiance's plans until he hit her with the news of what he'd done when she was in the airport, which is why she bailed out of there so quickly to join him. That still doesn't make sense though how/why she'd abandon her mom with no explanation. To leave suddenly like that makes me think she had decided, either before or there on the spot, that she was going on the lam with him. When she got the phone call, she sprang into action. But who knows.
Some interesting comments.Arrest warrant issued for Seraya's father Aaron Aung. Posted on the Pullman Police Department page (hope I'm linking correctly).
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ETA - From the post "The Pullman Police Department was issued a warrant for the arrest of 21-year old Aaron Daniel Aung, for Custodial Interference 1st Degree. Aung is in violation of a Latah County District Court parenting plan for retaining custody of 2-year old Seraya Aung Harmon."
Looks like the waited until he was in violation of the custody agreement. I have to say I'm happy the FBI is involved here - so many states involved as well as two missing young adults (Aaron and his fiancee).
Credit to @CHEL for posting this on the Nadia Cole thread.
I hope it's not that dire, but I speculate that perhaps some men, who aren't very stable,Unless she didn't plan it at all. My theory is that this was planned by him and she was not a part of it until the last minute. I believe she received distressing news possibly from him and she left in a panic to help him without realizing what she was getting herself into. It's also possible that once she met him, she is also being held against her will.
I strongly suspect (MOO) "gone fishing in Montana" is the cover story for Aung going west to Seattle, not east to Montana."On Wednesday, Pullman Police issued an arrest warrant for Aaron Daniel Aung, for first-degree Custodial Interference. Police say Aung is in violation of a Latah County District Court parenting plan for retaining custody of his missing 2-year-old, Seraya Aung Harmon...KREM2 spoke to the mother of the missing two-year-old child, Samara Harmon, who said she was never informed that her daughter and Aung were going to Montana."
Yes, missing poster says she left her phone.Do we know specifically what personal belongings she left behind? Has it been stated that she left her phone and/or wallet or is that just speculation based on "personal belonging" and no public info of her using phone/cards since she left?
If she got the call in the bathroom, how did her phone get back to where she left it?I agree. From what her family has said in the media, it sounds like Nadia and her family are very close and have a great relationship. If Nadia got an urgent call from the boyfriend while she was in the bathroom, you'd think Nadia would quickly go back to her mom for support or advice, not just walk away from the airport leaving her mom and her belongings behind. If she wasn't part of planning a disappearance and instead was just responding to a sudden emergency phone call from him, what would he have had to say to her to make her just abandon ship there?
I always thought they were texting over the course of her travelling through the airport - more easy / discreet and (as this all seems so planned out to me) IMO he did not ring her in a panic, rather had managed to convince her to “leave her life behind” as some sort of romantic gesture, perhaps in the weeks or months before the trip. However, calling is a possibility, as is a burner phone. Hadn’t considered this.Let me get this straight.
Nadia and her mother were at SeaTac ready to take a flight to Italy.
Nadia leaves her phone and belongings with her mother at the gate, while Nadia goes to the restroom.
Nadia leaves the airport in a "distressed state"
If Nadia received a phone call (or made a call to Aaron) in the restroom, but didn't have her phone, does that mean she had a burner phone? If so does that imply some subterfuge involved? Who carries around a burner phone in addition to your own phone, if not for secretive motives. Wouldn't Aaron know she was going on this Italian trip with her mom? If something was planned, why didn't she call off the trip before she and mom even went to the airport?
If there was something unexpected eg. she didn't know Aaron would vanish with the child and this was a surprise to her while at the airport, why would she have a burner phone in the first place? (if she did)
I'm trying to make sense of this.
If she got the call in the bathroom, how did her phone get back to where she left it?
Actually, I think May 28 was an error by Pullman Police - her missing poster upthread says May 29, as does this thread title.If Nadia disappeared on the 28th in Seattle, and hypothetically met up with Aaron, who was last seen on the 29th in Pullman, she had to go *somewhere* in between. He couldn't have picked her up that afternoon.