How many parents who harm/murder their children have incentive to do so before the very instant they do it? Something could have set one of them off that particular night.
There is a case in the news here where a 2-year-old boy was beaten terribly by his mother's boyfriend. Basically every bone in his body, including his skull, was fractured. The boyfriend's reasoning? The little boy was crying. And the mother, who before this had never done anything wrong, was there and didn't stop any of it. She didn't even call 911 when she realized her baby was unconscious. A neighbor heard the commotion and called.
Yes. These kind of child abuse cases leading to death commonly come from broken/blended family situations, like families where a "new man" is in the picture, and/or families with drug or serious criminal histories exist and/or families that are from a lower, economic demographic, and/or families with prior signs of abuse and neglect, or...seemingly normal families where one parent is suffering from a religious delusion or other mental illness. In the last category, they almost always confess immediately or come up with such a ridiculous story that does not match the facts (like leaving your 2 year old on the side of the road in a car when he's sick, but in the meantime, no one has seen your 2 year old for weeks), that it is impossible to believe them.
I don't see anything in this family thus far, that matches any of those categories. Instead, I see a normal family who appears very into their kids, stable jobs and very active. They don't fit the profile, IMO.
Kevin Fox, Riley's dad...comes to mind. In trying to cooperate with LE, without attorney (because innocent people do not need attorneys) Kevin Fox was coerced into confessing to his daughter's murder. Problem: He was innocent.
Innocent people do confess all the time. However, Kevin Fox is the only case I can think of where a parent falsely confessed in the case of a MISSING child. I'm sure there have been others but in the case of missing kids, false confessions are certainly not common.
And let me be clear. Sometimes, LE are nutso. Like in the case of Tonya Craft. Sometimes they just frame a person or hone in on the wrong person and arrest the innocent. That's why I would never counsel a client to speak with LE without an attorney present.
But we are not talking about what is prudent to do in such a case, to avoid being falsely accused and wrongfully convicted. We are talking about the typical behavior of innocent parents in the days right after their child has gone missing. And innocent parents are not thinking about Kevin Fox. They are thinking about their child and are desperate to do whatever it takes to get them back.
Innocent parents are not thinking, "Gee, now my darling child has disappeared but before I rush to do whatever the police - you know those people who are there to help others, to solve crime, who are supposed to protect and serve - ask of me, before I answer their questions, I better stop and think because yeah, I suddenly recall that one case, that Kevin Fox case. That could happen to me."
No. Innocent parents are not thinking about what could happen to themselves. They are thinking about what could be happening to their kids. I'm basing this on having studied countless of these cases over the years and examining how people in general react to crisis. I would be highly suspicious of anyone whose thoughts, in the first days, go right to attorneys, rather than to assisting LE in finding their child.
The command center was in the parking lot on the northeast side of the Office Max.
Thank you! But, northeast is hard to understand for someone directionally challenged like me! It would be great if someone could take Theforeigner's post below and add in an icon or something, where the command center was and where the police cars were parked. I really need a visual!:
Did JVM just say a CADAVER dog got a hit??
Did I miss something? Has it already been said what the dog hit on? I thought they weren't releasing what it was one of the dogs hit on?
Total insinuation on her part. It was never stated by LE that the dogs "hit" at all. "Received information from the dogs" could as easily mean a cadaver dog failed to hit in the house. And let me tell you, if info came out that a cadaver dog DID hit on something in that house, my opinion would change in a flash.
