Folded Clothes Thoughts
If placed there by Sierra this suggests to me that they were folded and placed there prior to all of this, and for some reason unrelated to her disappearance. Her parents might or might not be aware if this behavior was normal. In any case, I can think of a few reasons why Sierra might take a clean spare set of clothes to school.
If she were packing a spare set to run away with, why ditch them? Even if she brought a spare set to muddy the water, that would involve nothing more than a change of shirt.
If placed there by an abductor this suggests to me that her cloths were folded in a particular and perhaps unusual way as a message to both LE and her parents. If so, (in my opinion) there is a lot communicated (about both the status of the victim and the nature of the perpetrator) by this act. Even assuming that nothing else was folded along with the clothes -- no actual note or sign (weapon, body part, something unusual, etc), the folded clothes alone might suggest that the abductor wants LE to know that Sierra is in grave peril, and that this abductor is methodical, sadistic, patient, and in control of himself and the situation.
Under this scenario LE's statement could be seen as a response, telling her abductor, 'Message recieved.' Obviously I could easily be mistaken about this, and sincerely hope that this is the case.
As another option, it is possible (I suppose) that the clothes were not neetly folded, and that this is a deliberately false piece of information. Lots of possibilities there.
And that's enough random and largely useless mutterings from me for now.
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