I also find it weird that MF calls it a 7-11 and not Tom Thumb. He would have know it was a Tom Thumb, I don't even think St Joe ever had a 7-11.......St.Cloud had one near downtown.
I have only been to the area as a visitor, so I can't say - but if 7-11 is truly a rare thing in MN than this quote from what is supposed to be MF might be questionable - namely that the email version of his alibi on the other website is not really from MF and instead from someone who lives in a state where 7-11 is on every corner. In Texas, for instance, "7-11" is just a synonym for convenience store, because they are so dominant. It's
hard to imagine someone calling the Tom Thumb a 7-11 unless they are from a place like Texas where the term has become a generic word.
If anything, to me, the 7-11 reference calls into question the validity of this version of the alibi as being from the real MF. It could also just mean nothing - not every detail in every scenario is going to match perfectly, there will always be inexplicable clues that don't match reality.
777 if Kevin's story is true and MF had something to do with it does mean he has to move quick. I keep thinking that MF heard the call on the scanner knew/saw the kids leave, left the house of the kid he was dropping off and slowly drove down the road back towards Tom Thumb. Pulled over on the side of the Road turned off his car and waited for them to return. Web sleuths has focussed a lot on the abductor turning towards DRs house on the driveway but what if the perp took Jacob back towards kiwi toward a waiting car?
Ok, that's a valid scenario.
I'm a little skeptical of anyone accidentally being able to overhear the call from Jacob to his parents. But it's possible. I say it's perhaps a bit more reasonable to think MF is in the neighborhood dropping off his youth group boy and
simply noticed Jacob on his way to/from Tom Thumb? I think it makes a lot of sense to imagine MF grooming this other boy in the neighborhood but as of yet not molesting him, when, out of the blue,
Jacob accidentally wanders into MF's sight completely vulnerable to attack.
....ALSO, why couldn't MF simply have been randomly driving around this night, perhaps even stopping in at the TT, and just unluckily bumped into Jacob? This other boy in the neighborhood that MF is supposedly friends with is a little too convenient for me.
I
don't buy the story from MF which goes: "I was coincidentally dropping off another boy I wasn't molesting at the time who lives on Jacob's street at almost exactly the same time Jacob was abducted, but,
I promise, I had nothing to do with Jacob even though I have a documented sexual preference for pre-teen boys."
After getting back to his car MF heads away from the scene with JW in the trunk but stops at Tom Thumb to establish an alibi/fill up with gas/hand JW to someone else?
Possible but a real stretch IMO.
Having a boy Jacob's age in your trunk doesn't sound very conducive to parking your car in full view at a store and leisurely having a conversation with Kevin about whatever the heck 'medical cops' are. I think you
get out of the area fast if you've got a boy in the trunk. [note to self: ask Kevin if he recognized MF]
IN ANY SCENARIO, whatever happened to Jacob in the immediate aftermath of the abduction happened
very quickly. He was either dead, incapacitated, supremely well hidden or removed from the scene.....
within the half hour or so time period it took for the cops to get there.
777