Something has been nagging at me since I first heard about this case and I have to let it out because from what I have seen, nobody else has paid any attention to it or perhaps not noticed.. or perhaps it is just that I'm reading too much in. I don't want to even THINK like this because if it were my child in this situation, I would be devastated, and the last thing I would want to do is to cast even the slightest shadow onto the poor parents. When I watched the video of the parents' plea for the return of their son (I watched it here:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/missin...-emotional-plea-for-their-superhero-1.1895317), I couldn't help noticing several things:
- the seeming lack of emotion from the mother (as another poster has already noticed and mentioned here in this thread); meanwhile, the father can't hold back his tears. This seemingly emotionless mother was even more striking to me BECAUSE her husband was losing it, for example, when I am around someone, or see someone, or hear someone who is crying, it makes me also cry, and that can be even a total stranger, let alone my own husband, ie, even if I was less emotional that I am, how can it not bring a wife/mother to lose it when she sees her husband losing it, the husband who is likely normally strong? And even more than that, the dad's eyes are red from crying, and meanwhile, mom's are not,.. so ???? I agree with the poster who responded to the other enquiry over the lack of emotion, that when your husband falls apart, it is left to the wife to be the strong one, but even so, in *this* situation, and in front of all these people, I just can't jive her lack of emotion with the situation.
- the seeming lack of comforting going on from the dad to the mom. The mom is all over the dad, hugging, patting, kissing, holding, but yet... there is little of the same seen from husband toward his wife. Why???? She has lost both her son AND her mother??
- a previous poster posted a link to a Globe & Mail newspaper article (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ing-calgary-boy-grandparents/article19449772/) in which a person who attended the Licknes sale said that Nathan was not seen there ("She did not see Nathan at the sale, although family members said he was there, .... "). Of course this means nothing, but my little ears perked up when I read this because.... what if the boy was missing before the sale was even over? Did anyone see him at the sale? Apparently he was at the park? One article I read somewhere said he was there with the grandfather, another post said grandfather (AL) was watching him through a garage or something??
- at the news conference... God bless the poor father of Nathan as he holds onto a paper butterfly his son had made. Meanwhile, mom is holding a....... brand new shirt that she just newly purchased to give to her son on Monday morning when she picked him up? She is holding this tshirt during the press conference which was held on which day??? Yes.. two whole days later, on Wednesday?? A tshirt with the scent of 'newly-made-in-China' smell?? Wouldn't you be instead holding on for dear life to an item of clothing, a teddy bear, a blanket, SOMETHING that actually had the scent of her precious missing child on it? Just weird imho.
- and the final real kicker that has really really been picking at me for days...... in the press conference.. at the link I posted above which is the one I watched.. at approximately 07:24 into the recording (it is in total 11:56 minutes), the mother says, "Nathan was the most loving human being and throughout that whole sale......... "... the keyword being "WAS" !! This is just bothering me to pieces. Of ALL people, wouldn't she be the one with the MOST hope that Nathan still "IS", and not "WAS"???
Finally, I did read back quite a bit and so forgive me if I am duplicating anything. I found out here (had not seen this bankruptcy stuff anywhere else yet!) about the bankruptcy issues with the dad, grandmother and grandfather's business. This, to me, sheds a new potential light onto things. I read an article that said the employees were let go just on June 25th, which is what? Only 4 days prior to these people going missing? That is one huge coincidence! In a business bankruptcy, if it is incorporated, and if AL set things up so that his own personal assets would not be affected, that could cause HUGE bad feelings with contractors to which the company may have owed a lot of money to. In his line of business, I'm not sure what kind of contractors he would have been using, but just because it is a business that went bankrupt doesn't mean that some real people were not financially crushed by it. The county seized the company's equipment because it was owed $800,000 in property taxes, penalties and interest, but there could have been much more money owed to all kinds of other entities and people. And if one of those people saw that they were having a 'moving sale', and planned to get out of town, it may not have gone over too well? I hope LE is following up on THAT tidbit.
