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Not necessarily. I think that someone can be abducted quickly and silently.
Also, she could have accepted a ride, if she was dehydrated or weak, and it was a bad decision. As long as that is a possibility, he is covered.
Given the T's RV was *right there*, we might assume heat relief and water would have been within tens of feet of BT and the turnout intersection where the trail exits on to the roadway. Even a 'bad decision' would be beyond comprehension at that point; BT would have had to have been experiencing a major lapse of sorts, which I doubt occurred. BT was heading to the RV. She had that intent in mind. Last minute bad decision to engage a stranger for water or whatever? Wouldn't have happened.
Maybe a stranger stopped BT to engage in 'friendly conversation' ("Are you alright, do you need help with your RV?") and that stranger decided to kidnap?
No matter how you weigh the possibilities, too many absurdities would have to be considered and accepted as plausible which wouldn't pass any reasonable smell test.
I find it difficult to accept that a random someone with evil intent who was itching to kidnap an innocent desert hiker was just happening past the Kelbaker and Hidden Hills Roads turnout at the same moment a bikini-clad, beer-carrying woman was approaching. No scream heard. No spilled beer nor container found.
No. Spilled. Beer. Nor. Container. Found.
If RT's suggestion of what occurred ("she was taken") did occur, I could assume BT's beer container would have been the first thing RT would have found, as he would have been looking for any sign of BT in and/or around the turnout location. No way a perp would be concerned with not leaving behind a beer container; no way a kidnapped BT would have held on tightly to a drink container during a kidnapping scuffle.
As RT claimed, he was "panicky". At that threshold, when you realize a loved one appears to be missing, you look and listen with greater fervor; at least two of the five senses kick in to overdrive.
Two TV news interviews. Two. Only two. No media blitz. "Where's my wife?"
Smell test: FAIL.
It makes me wonder: about what was RT really feeling "panicky"?
Of course, SPECULATION and MOO, I could be wrong.