patternsfinder
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These are good points. Additionally, a key reason to jump to "she definitely didn't run away, someone took her" is to cover up inquiry about home life/what things she might possibly want to run away from.Even if I accept that JS might not exhibit natural emotion, I'll try to give her this -- if she had somehow kept all suspicion at bay (she never once questioned SS's over-reach?), and that carried over into the Sunday/Monday, and being that IMO she did not see MS on Sunday night (only SPOKE with her, by phone or video) and most certainly didn't see her Monday morning, AND would have been aware she never had a conversation with MS about after school pick up, so she may not have been excessively worried yet
BUT when MS wasn't at the Gma's and she hadn't been at school, NO ONE wants to think the worst. In fact, I think it's NATURAL to EXHAUST every single thing that could have happened. WHY DIDN'T JS leave her family at the storefront and speed home? If MS is at home, whew. But if she's not there, who wants her to be abducted? Or worse? NO ONE. Why isn't JS going through MS's things to determine what might be missing ON THE HOPES that MS RAN AWAY? Because a RUNAWAY child has a much greater chance of STILL BEING ALIVE than an abducted one.
Did JS ever go back to her house that evening? When did LE seize it? When did they go to the hotel? Because if she was at the house FOR EVEN TWO MINUTES, that ONE CROC should have scared the hell out of her.
Why wasn't JS spouting off all the places MS might be? I'm telling you, most parents don't want it to be the WORST thing so they're desperate to think of all of the better, safer, still alive scenarios because, if you run out of those, what's left is very bad --
So.... why didn't she think it important to inventory MS's possessions to see what she might have taken with her when she left? See if there were any clues, anything giving indication of where she might have gone, how long she intended to be gone...
Someone must'a got her.
So maybe it's her affect, or lack thereof, but I've just never seen such a passive responce....
JMO
What's interesting to me is that abusive parents - IMO/experience - often tell outsiders that their kid is crazy (ie not taking her meds, forgetful, PMS causing fights with her mom, etc) as a way to prime others to not trust the kid's take on their own reality. But in this case, on this particular day, that on-going narrative they told to explain MS's behaviors didn't work for what they needed. Suddenly she is so happy, so loved, definitely would never possibly run away!