Remember how Casey was reported to have looked at missing-persons sites on her computer? I wonder if she found any on which to pattern her story. Here's one we have a thread on right here at WS with eerie similarities.
Websleuths Thread: http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24126&highlight=kema
I wonder if we can find any other cases like this that Casey may have run across.
The boy's parents are suspects now, eleven years later, but they still haven't been charged, although at least one sibling claims to have seen her brother dead.From the Honolulu StarBulletin, May 1, 1999:
And more than a year has passed since the boy's father - under pressure to explain Peter Boy's long absence - told Big Island police he gave his son away in August 1997 to "Auntie Rose Makuakane," whose existence police have been unable to confirm.
No one has been charged with any crime. But one mainland expert says police were wise not to file a minor charge - such as child neglect - based on the father's version of events because that could prevent the filing of a more serious charge later. . . .
Others worry that there have been no arrests - and may never be - because evidence was long gone by the time police began investigating in January 1998. The missing-person probe began months after relatives first alerted social workers that they were worried about the boy.
"If police and (Child Protective Services) had gotten on this quicker, there might be more physical evidence as to what happened," said state Rep. Dennis Arakaki (D, Kalihi), co-author of a current bill that would increase the penalties for child abuse. "I'm afraid he's met foul play and we'll never know the truth."
http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/05/01/news/story5.html
Websleuths Thread: http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24126&highlight=kema
I wonder if we can find any other cases like this that Casey may have run across.