Sheriff said yesterday that they are still unaware of motive. If Sherri is unaware of the motive for her abduction, she certainly was not trafficked! JMO And not told by abductors what their purpose was. Bizarro.
That's a really good point.
This whole case is a Lifetime movie, which I'm sure is being written as we speak.
My gosh you're right. I've watched a few in the last several months and they're always so convoluted and far fetched. Now we have one in real life. Ugh.
The things about human traffickers is, they target girls who won't be missed. And the girls usually go with them voluntarily at first, then are encouraged to become addicted to drugs and cut off from friends and family...
These girls, if they are even lucky enough to be reported missing, do not get any national press coverage and do not get multiple threads on websleuths. They are dismissed as "runaways", or illegal immigrants, or drug-addicts. That's how the traffickers get away with it.
Sex traffickers wouldn't touch women like SP with a barge-pole because it would bring LE knocking on their door. Why would they take the risk of abducting random random joggers when they are so many vulnerable young girls who will not be missed?
And even if they did somehow accidentally kidnap her because they mistook her for a young girl who would not be missed, they would release (or kill) her as soon as the media frenzy began to kick off and they realised their mistake, not keep her for 3 whole weeks.
All just MOO. :moo: :moo:
I totally agree. They know who to target. They have a feel for it. And not only would they not target a woman like SP because of the strenuous efforts to find her and apprehend the perps, but she would not be controllable. A middle class white woman aged 34 is not going to be as easy to control as a drug addict, teenager, foreigner, someone who is poorer and less aware of their rights and more used to being oppressed, etc.
But like I said before, this case is so odd nothing would surprise me. Maybe, just maybe, it was a kidnapping by drug addicts or low-level criminals who wanted to "move up" to a more serious crime, and make money, but didn't really know how? I know that's a far out theory but I've seen a few people suggest something similar and at this point, I;m running out of options.
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FOIA request to LE would clear this part up. With a high profile case like this, I'm really surprised no one in the media has requested the 911 recordings.
I think that only applies to federal information. So we would have to see if the state has such a law (I don;t know) and then from what I know, any information that could compromise an investigation is able to be held back/sealed and not released.
I haven't and this is some of what I'd hoped would be provided yesterday. To say she was targeted doesn't, IMO, help people in the community relax and they will probably be suspicious of every dark SUV they see.
SP must have given them some clue about how she was taken and how her phone was left where it was. Why wouldn't LE share that with us? Don't open your door to strangers, for instance, or don't stop for vehicles that appear to be broken down? Don't turn off your phone. Whatever. Something. Reassure us or warn us.
I realize now that LE can't release much because they need to be able to see if any witness comes forward or suspect who starts to talk, matches what they know. If that info is released, then they can't say, "Oh, this person knows details that the public is unaware of, so they're credible."
Off topic. ..sitting at hospital waiting on n my grandson to arrive. Thanks everyone for keeping this discussion going.
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Wow!! I hope that means congratulations are in order!!! :fireworks::lamb: