Are we to infer that MCSO believes there is a witness who made a statement to the media but not to LE, or whose statement to LE differs from statements made to the media? :waitasec:
I'd infer that, or that LE wants to compare statements and make sure they line up with one another.
It has to be difficult to determine exactly what time children say they saw Kyron. Adults, too, for that matter. I could estimate when I saw something at a science fair or other gathering, but unless I knew it would be important later, I wouldn't look at my watch. I don't even have a watch -- I'd look at the time on my cell phone or at a wall clock.
The other thing is that sometimes people unknowingly assume someone is there who is supposed to be, but the someone isn't there at all. I've heard that for years, that
memory fills in the blanks. So Kyron could have been at the fair at 8:45 a.m. and someone remembered seeing him at 9:00 a.m., when he was no longer there. Not a time mix up, but a memory mix up.
Until a couple of days ago, I hadn't experienced this. That morning, I came downstairs, looked at the couch, saw a pillow and blanket, and would have sworn my son was sleeping there as usual (his room is in the basement and we have a window a/c in the living room). I looked directly at the couch, and I was not half asleep.
Half an hour later, I decided to wake up my son and he wasn't there. I didn't panic because he is a teenager and could have been somewhere else in the house. I looked for him, and just when panic was starting to flutter, I remembered that his dad took him to the dentist for an early appointment, which meant
he had not been there at all when I came downstairs.
I felt like an idiot and my memory had definitely filled in the blanks for me because when I went to wake him up, there was obviously no one sleeping on the couch - there wasn't lump under the covers, the blanket had been shoved against the back of the couch.
ETA: Until this happened, I truly thought my memory would not fill in the blanks. Obviously I was wrong.