Show me one of those cases that involved a baby taken from his or her bed at home at night. I'm very specific in what I write for a reason. I know of only one such case where it is quite possible that it was an actual abduction and not a family-involved murder. I know of no case where it's been actually proven that it was a true abduction from their bed at night.
Yes, we've all heard of the cases of newborns stolen from hospital nurseries or cut out of a mother's body or yanked from her arms in a parking lot by a nut who wants to pretend the kid is hers. I know of not one of those cases that fits his profile- stolen from her crib in her home AT NIGHT. Over and over we've seen these cases. Police suspect the parents in pretty much all of them.
Also, Ember does not fit the profile of the cases cited. They are from ages newborn to 6 months.
My thing is - if he was planning to harm her - why bring her into the store at all? The type of person he is being described as - seems to be the type to just run in and come back out. I think he planned no harm to her at that point but something went wrong after this store visit. He left her outside somewhere or got highly annoyed with the crying. I also don't think he took time to bury her - I think she will be found in water or a secluded repository. The incident could have happened during the night after he returned . he may have purchased his drugs and did them at home and could not handle the crying.
Perhaps to establish that he had Ember and to be seen with her? "She was alive in my care until she was stolen from our house that night."
In Canada, Police statistics show 25 children of the 46,718 reported missing in 2011 listed as "abducted by stranger."
However, the definition of stranger for these numbers includes anyone who is not a parent. In other words it could be a relative, a friend of the family, a babysitter or someone unknown to the family or victim."
The article goes on to say that only 2 children out the total reported missing (46,718) had been abducted by someone who was not a relative or family friend. It's extremely rare to have a case in which a child is kidnapped by a stranger.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/child-abductions-by-strangers-rare-in-canada-1.1335061
And again, add an infant stolen from his or her crib at night. Now you drop that statistic down to nil.
Well, I have to agree I'm a big fan of statistics, and always look at what's statistically more likely to happen. But to say it "doesn't happen", and then refuse to believe a possibility, is looking the other way on truth, IMHO. Although things are rare you have to accept that they CAN happen, and look at it that way.
So. You can google this question "baby kidnapped from crib" as easily as I can, but I thought I'd give some names to get you started.
Sabrina Aisenberg hasn't ever been found, but I believe she was kidnapped from her crib and her parents have apparently been cleared. I believe Lisa Irwin also was taken by someone unknown to LE. In googling, I found this:
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20784707,00.html
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...vania-baby-found-dead-suspect-in-custody?lite
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/03/01/girl.found.alive/
And certainly Charles Lindberg's baby.
But again, you can google as well as I can, and I did notice about 15 more links I didn't open yet to look at.
The thing is, I don't think you're typically the type of person to say "it's most likely this one thing happened, so obviously the other outcome that's less likely can't be true".
I'm just keeping options open.
I'm super careful with what I write. Again, I do not know of one case of a baby that has been proved to have been stolen from his or her crib at night. The Aisenberg baby case certainly has never been proven to have been an abduction.
But you found one. 83 years ago, back when people kidnapped in this country for ransoms, the Lindbergh baby was taken from his crib at night. One case. 83 years ago. Absolutely. But I think that proves my point. We had to go back 83 years to find one proven case fitting this profile.
Also, I hardly think we will break the infant ransom abduction drought we've had for the last 83 years with a ransom case targeting this family.
Finally, everyone sleuths differently. I go by probabilities. And that doesn't mean, "This is more likely so the other is less likely." That's a logical fallacy and not at all what I'm saying. It's more like, "A certain scenario is probable. Others are statistically extremely improbable, standing on their own." So it's not because one scenario is more possible that others are edged out. Those others are improbable from the get go. For example, we could say it's possible a UFO took Ember. But that's not probable. And never will be.
And in this case, I trust that LE do not go into a case with tunnel vision. That they investigate all angles. That they have way more info than they give to the public. That they know how easy it is to get into and out of a specific property. Or how the parents reacted. Or what their stories were. Or if they seem credible. I trust that with all the info they have, and them knowing the statistics firsthand as well as the cases that break the rules, if they are clearly pointing to the father as a suspect, there's a reason for it.
Coupled with what we know about infant stranger abductions from cribs at night, I'm very confident that my focus is a good one.
But anyone is welcome to disagree!
