The exact same was said about CS's abduction. No one would go to a an isolated spot with children at 6.30 at night. The majority of the public did not believe anyone could enter a tent with parents asleep inside and sneak out a child.
The parents were abused, threatened and villified by the public for their interviews and how they responded, how they drove around looking for their child and didn't wait at the tent, why they even went camping with kids in the first place, the way she was dressed, her parenting style, one parent being a step parent so........
And yet a kid snatched from a tent in the middle of the night while asleep made alot more sense to me re opportunistic abduction.
But broad daylight at 10 am on a big block at someone's private property while they're milling closeby just seems... inconceivable. What if the FM walked out? Why William and not his sister? How did it happen so quietly?
I'm not saying any other theory is more or less likely, but just that this one wouldn't have been my first consideration.
Is it possible that in attempting to not look incompetent the FM has tried to truncate the timeframe (her repetition of 'five minutes ago') and maybe William hasn't been supervised for a much longer period of time, which would lead to a greater chance of abduction (eg if he was sitting down in the front gutter for half an hour)?
Could it have been a different kind of accident - i know there has been consideration of a car running him over in the driveway but maybe he was wandering on the road and someone hit him but took the body to avoid charges?
Aside from malicious intent, abduction, covered up accident, or getting stuck, what else is there?