Gardener1850
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I believe Gitana1 said legally, Sherri is not obligated to share anything other than what she has told them already. Hopefully she will confirm, if I am wrong.
What about her family members or an anonymous donor? Someone who knows her might have paid a ransom and not told Sherri nor her family about it to protect her. In this case the person offering up a ransom reward kept their identity a secret and even told the police in the online letter that they had legal representation and were within their rights to do what they were doing. If they paid the ransom (a BIG IF), LE would have to investigate to try to prove that and then try to find out who the anonymous person was. But they are probably more interested in catching the kidnappers...at least I hope so. I'm not sure of the legalities of a person paying a ransom and then NOT working with LE to find the kidnappers.
On the other hand, it's NOT illegal to lie to kidnappers so I would work with the police if I paid a ransom and got my loved one back alive, but only if the police promised not to reveal I had cooperated to help find the kidnappers (because-threats to my life/Sherri's family if I worked with police)...It's all very convoluted, I know, but I'm wondering if this is what is going on behind the scenes. Maybe: A ransom was paid. The secret donor is cooperating with police and has enough info to find the abductors. Police are not revealing that in order to protect the people involved and LE also don't feel an urgency to release more info about the captors because they are hot on their trail already. IDK. All speculation only.