Hi all........have just read the last couple of pages, so please excuse me if I am going over stuff that you have been through...
1st of all CONGRATULATIONS for being bloomin good at sleuthing...... Yesterday or today when they came out and said that the dress was from Cotton On....I said to my husband, the folk on Websleuth worked that out a couple of weeks ago. I am wondering if the police did read it on here first???? they do read here...
I think there is more that we haven't been told (of course) for them to be narrowing down the area so much ie asking a craft shop lady around there about material, door knocking within a 20 mile radius and saying she may have come from Murray Bridge to Victoria...so they seem to be sticking to SA at this stage.
Re the first person to open the bag, I too thought that I read that that person had come forward.
Also re the horrible death scenario, someone said that maybe she had been dismembered, I have read that the skeleton was found intact, so that would rule that out....however in saying that, I wonder if that meant the skull as well???? I think it may have been not with the rest of the skeleton, and maybe shattered or similar if it was the jaw bone that made the person realise it was a human...poor little thing.
NOw suitcase man!! yes JaneSA that one has me baffled as well. He obviously stayed within the area if he was sighted at different dates. Did he have the suitcase with him each time?? The police haven't really clarified that have they....if he did that is extremely peculiar, a stranger in such a small town walking around with a suitcase. I was going to rule him out, but now I think he is definitely involved..............with all the news articles, he'd have to out somewhere remote to not know that they were looking for him..
If the family was transient they really could be anywhere. I live in a town in queensland and the amount of families that come and go is continuous.....a lot of people come up here looking for work and will stay 6 months for the cane season, or will be here while something is being built and then move on again. I am sure this is very typical. My husband is from a small town on the Eyre Peninsula, but has lived around that area as well. He said one thing is for sure, everyone knows everyone, even if they are strangers that have come into an area. Don't know how this little one has gone under the radar for so long.....
IF the little girl's coat is manufactured by Pumpkin Patch, then inside has to be a lable. Maybe, it is not shown to us.