Good morning. Would yall mind some sleuthing about the anonymous donor?
Yesterday the Redding Record Searchlight newspaper did a pretty good review of what we know and dont know about this case:
http://www.redding.com/news/local/w...8a-5a9c-33bb-e053-0100007f19c1-404521726.html
The article says, Two weeks after Papini disappeared, an anonymous person created a website, sherripapini.com, to offer an undisclosed ransom for her immediate release and set an expiration date of 5 a.m. Nov. 23, the day before Thanksgiving. A letter provided instructions to the alleged captors and named Cameron Gamble as the middle man.
However, it is interesting to note that a WHOIS look-up reveals that the site was registered on November 7, only five days after SPs disappearance:
https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=sherripapini.com
Youll have to type in the anti-spam characters to see the results. Unfortunately, this is a GoDaddy proxy registration that hides the owners name.
My question is: Does it make sense that the anonymous donor was involved as early as 11/7, registering a domain that would be used ten days later, on 11/17, to communicate a ransom offer? Wasnt everyone still debating, on 11/7, whether this was a kidnapping, vs. a voluntary disappearance, vs. some other kind of crime, such as a homicide?
Note that in a Record Searchlight article on 11/17 the reporter says: [Gamble] said he did not write the letter or set up the website, but rather the anonymous person did and put Gamble's contact information in it. Source:
http://www.redding.com/news/local/P...ffers-reward-for-missing-woman-401771575.html
I guess the obvious punchline here is: I hope the sheriff or the FBI or somebody has obtained a warrant for the domain registration records and has determined who launched the site. The answer to that will tell us a lot about CGs role, and maybe even about the entire crime. I have always wondered whether the anonymous donor exists. To my eye, the 11/17 donors letter has a very distinct voice that is not unlike the style of CGs own posts and writings. That said, everyones writing voice resembles someone elses.