Things that stand out to me in some way:
• The text to KP when he doesn't take his phone in with him. Asking a time sensitive question to someone who can't answer in a time sensitive manner is strange to me.
• The half-wrapped present. 1. How does one half wrap a present? 2. What was the interruption that also meant that it wasn't returned to before going for a jog? (Especially having not yet received the response from KP; how did she know he wouldn't come home for lunch whilst she was on her jog to find the half-wrapped present for him?)
• The earbuds and phone being on the side of the road. Unless there was a struggle, I can't see why the items were on the side of the road. If there was a struggle, I wonder HOW she was taken by two women. Did she struggle against two people with a gun? Did she leave the phone as a breadcrumb? Seems an odd choice of breadcrumb being that it may be your lifeline. If they had a gun, it seems to me there would not have been a struggle and they would not have wanted the phone left in the open as it was.
• The fact that it was two women. If they are known to her, abducting her and releasing her is beyond bizarre; she can just name them. If they are unknown to her, what on earth could the possibly want with her? Yes, women commit crimes, but this situation is most definitely not the norm. If anyone can point me towards another case where two or more women have abducted another unknown-to-them female, I'd be very interested. This doesn't seem a normal case to me in any way.
• How she got to where she was and how she was kept fed and watered for that time without having built up any description of the perpetrators.
• Being released by the perpetrators at all. Three weeks and then.... released? Not escaped? Again, if anyone can point me towards randomly released abductees within such a short period of time, but outside of a day or two...
• The reverse ransom that is being described as some sort of ransom. It's a reward without the involvement of LE. I'm not sure why the aggression was attached to it; not a reassuring step for negotiation IMO.
• The deadline for the reward. It wasn't a deadline set up in the late stages of the deal where the payment had been agreed. A deadline was put on it from the start, without there having been any contact between the parties.
• The reading of the poem and balloon release which took place after SP had been found. KP had spoken to her by then also (connected him to her via the sheriff's office) so they would have known conclusively she had been found.
I'm not sure what we're looking at and if any or all of the above is of no consequence at all, I simply wanted to make a non-exhaustive list of the things that I am struggling to reconcile in my head at this stage.
Please don't see this as anything other than expressing my queries on certain points of the case.
