Hello,
I'm a long time lurker but I've only posted once or twice. So please point out any faux pas.
I've been following this story and it really doesn't sit well with me.
No media record of her being found in February? It seems like the local law enforcement would have issued a media release in an attempt to find her identity. If only to find her medical record, which I assume would be useful for them to have if she has cancer.
Silence from February to June when the page began circulating. It has been picked up by the MSM but there are so far no comments from any official agencies to verify the information. All that is being reported is from the FB page.
The page first circulated the photo asking for people to contact Aaron Haass of the FBI if they have any information. The phone number listed is registered to a company called "Us Fbi" (
http://us-fbi.carlsbad.baystat.org/business-ca2/us-fbi-550e61f1d1276dd4668d82b5/)
the address listed is the Sandiego FBI branch, but no amount of searching could link that company name and agent to that branch. The manager of the company is listed as Pat Connolly who is a former FBI agent but is now a professor (
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-connolly/6b/b99/a96).
I have emailed the media liaison for the Sandiego FBI office and asked him to verify if the phone number is actually officially linked with the San Diego FBI and whether he could verify if the request for information came from their office.
I have also emailed the media liasion for Calfire and asked if they could verify whether any southern Californian Firefighters had found a woman matching Sam's description on Feb 1st.
The page edited out the link to the FBI agent today and replaced it with a link to interpol:
http://www.interpol.int/notice/search/missing/2015-25715
MOO the Interpol link is not enough evidence for me that her story is real. I'd be interested to know the process of listing someone as missing on that site. I believe this might be an elaborate hoax or someone who is in need of psychiatric help as was the case for Samantha Azzopardi (
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-Australian-student-Samantha-Azzopardi.html ) and Robin van Helsun (
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/15/mystery-forest-boy-dutch-runaway ).
Again all MOO but I will be happy to be proven wrong if any part of this story can be verified by authorities. I would also be more convinced if they continued to release photos or videos of Sam or even just photos of the clothes she was wearing.