The most "recent" information on the
time-stamp I could find is from early September 2019, where it's intimated that the matter is still being looked into. The only article I have found since is from the Daily Mail UK (untrustworthy, is my understanding), which presents it as fact that the "time created" stamp is 7:39 AM and the "time corrected" stamp is 9:37 AM (I originally thought these numbers could have been rearranged, but the millisecond element suggests perhaps not and nothing nefarious is to be seen here?). My conclusion is that this matter has not been resolved in the last two years unless someone has evidence of such. But, the theory does suggest the unlikely element of "criminal mastermind," which I'm not sure I can buy into.
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Can anyone clear up the foster family member situation? My understanding is that in September 2014, family unit proper was: FM, FF, WT, and WT's sister. Is that correct? There have been statements since which suggest that additional family members were added/existed (aside: incurring more members since boggles the mind, considering the advent of WT's disappearance).
Also, do bio-parents still have visitation rights with WT's sister?
Both William’s and AJ’s mums claimed their children would never wander.
I'm listening to the WWT podcast and I'm taken aback by the foster family's insistence that WT would never wander. Of course, a parent is going to have an instinct about things and would want LE to pursue the path their gut is leading them to (in this case: kidnapping). But, what we also have here is a very specific situation that enhances motive where any kind of parent negligence involving WT would seemingly threaten the parental rights over WT's sister (and any other non-biological-siblings). That would extend to either an accidental death (leading to the need to conceal it) or the child wandering off and disappearing. A child wandering off would be suggestive of parental negligence more so than the child being kidnapped, and one might want to "
protect" their reputation by focusing on the latter. A child wandering off would also promote the search of a body (alive or dead), and, if there was misadventure, one might want to "
protect" their involvement in such by also pushing the kidnapping narrative and distract from a search. Then, again, maybe it was strangers who snatched him, and their gut is correct, and I should feel awful for writing any of this.
I feel bad for the biological parents (who, yes, were no saints themselves) and family, who lost their biological child (permanently, from the standpoint of him losing his life) and had to sit back and watch all of this unfold with their hands tied behind their backs. Like, on their last visit, they're warned beforehand by the social worker that WT had a black eye. And, then, the foster family didn't even tell them they were going up to Kendall the day of the disappearance. There is a degree of privilege being enjoyed by the (more affluent) foster family. All the while, the children of the bio-parents are supposed to be enjoying a higher level of "
protection," including their bio-daughter for the last seven years since their bio-son has vanished. The foster parents insist on keeping her (and any other siblings) identity private for "legal reasons," but also to "
protect" her from media, attention, etc:
William Tyrrell's parents: Why we won't reveal our identity
Ironically enough, the foster parents enjoy a level of "
protection" by extension. Further irony ensues with the recent assault charges of "a child in their home." This is beginning to sound like a reverse Lindy Chamberlain (innocent mother with her identity in full view raked over the media coals and found guilty of a crime she didn't commit). The optics between the less advantaged bio-parents and the more affluent foster parents are just ... bad.
If WT was indeed kidnapped by strangers, I get it, the foster family wanted to protect their children. And what a tragedy for them, especially if they're now being "railroaded" by frustrated authorities who are desperate to resolve this matter in some form. And considering the circumstances of his disappearance (namely, the last-minute nature of the trip, the reclusive nature of the FG's home), that's an awfully big "if." What's even scarier is how genuine and authentic the FM (and FF) comes across in the podcast without that if.
