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The $10,000 reward is interesting because as a relatively small amount ($10,000 is not a huge sum in the Bay Area) it would seem to be targeting people who were not conspirators in Mr. Beck's disappearance (imo, someone who was involved would need a bigger reward in order to snitch). But in...

Agree with this; in the 1990s the lower-end wages were actually not that different from the wages today, and a dollar went a lot farther then. I had an office job for $10 an hour in the 1990s that was a fully functioning salary (not luxury, but paid for living expenses and some vacation). Today...

Agreed that the 10 year old car is not evidence one way or the other of a lack of assets. The Bay Area is full of wealthy men who purposefully drive average cars and do other things to look middle class. There's a weird kind of status in appearing frugal for a lot of wealthy men, especially when...

Commercial flights out of the country that I've been on in the last decade have required me to show a passport to the check-in agent before they give me my boarding pass. So a commercial flight out of the country might have been difficult, though it might have been easier from a smaller/less...

Paligal, I agree that there seems to very little evidence for suicide, thankfully, at this point, though it is unfortunately still a possibility. I want to imagine that if he did plan to commit suicide, he would have left some sign so as not to cause his family the undue mystery and pain of not...

SFBA, I agree that if you think on it the computer activity raises questions. For one thing, if he were a naive computer user (which I doubt he was given that he is a businessman in the Bay Area and his family is clearly very well-versed in using the internet), then none of his computer searches...

I've been lurking in the thread but wanted to raise some thoughts. Paligal's post about the strange coincidence of the Instagram photo was compelling, especially when you consider that most people on Instagram taking tourist photos focus on the most eye-catching site (in this case the Golden...