An article from 1977, marking the anniversary of Eloise's abduction:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...FkQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=R5IDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5102,1849081
I wonder what sort of person, aiming to steal a child from her bedroom while the entire family is home - a high risk crime - would take the time to stage the scene to look as if he came through the window.
Police noted the wire seemed to have been cut from the inside -- the window's dust was disturbed, but tan bark from outside was on the bedroom floor -- that the wind-out window's gap was hardly big enough for an adult to climb through, let alone one carrying a child..
So the abductor (this scene would have us believe), either before or after he gathered Eloise in his arms (without her crying out) stopped to slit the wire screen from the inside. He then went outside and tossed a handful of bark through the window, while somehow still holding onto an 8 year old child.. I don't think so.
It is VERY likely the scene was staged but ..... WHY???
It would be in the best interests of a stranger to simply leave the way he came and be done with it. IMO, the primary motivation for this act of staging would be *misdirect* the police from other avenues of exit. But why would someone feel the need to do that? Because they *needed* the police to believe someone came through the window. The *needed* it to look obvious that a stranger had taken Eloise. And a stranger has no need to make it *look* like he's stranger...
Eloise's abductor was familiar to her and close to home, this strongly suggests me..
So I actually wonder if the dad, in his generally angry and drunken, emotionally unstable state, could have molested her - and possibly killed her afterwards out of fear she'd tell somebody. I can see how a man who is not generally a pedophile (not ALL molesters are habitual pedos, this is a fact - some men only ever molest a kid once and never again) would be crushed by his own actions afterwards, and be (and act) genuinely sad.
Another note of tragedy for this family is that younger brother Blake died at only 26, I am presuming from a traffic accident:
" And 11 years ago, the youngest of her three children, Blake, then 26, was killed while hailing a taxi on a rainy night in Nunawading. "
http://www.housename.com.au/house-name-articles/2008/9/13/my-space-patsy-worledge/