Secret rehab or mental health facility is a theory that has become pretty popular on various missing women's cases (I don't think I've seen that theory pop up in a missing man's case yet, interestingly).
I have never seen it borne out.
Simply, a rehab center would disclose the fact that the person is in their center, to LE, and the search and investigation would be over. LE would issue a statement: "The missing woman has been located and is safe and no further information will be released at this time due to privacy reasons. We greatly appreciate the public's assistance and concern in this matter."
Kelsey Berreth is not in a secret rehab or mental health facility as the FBI and CBI frantically search for her. IMO.
@Gitana - I never meant that she was there. I think it is the third time I am typing the same version. I did not say that Kelsey checked herself in a MH facility. I am merely wondering what explanation was provided to KB's family by PF, or someone else, to buy time.
I am trying to explain how come none of the family got scared between November 25th when she did not answer her phone and December 2nd.
So far, I am trusting mom's description of KB as a responsible person for whom sudden disappearance would not be an option and brother's description of the family as a tight-knit family exchanging regular calls.
There are families, and adult kids, who do not exchange frequent calls. There are people who don't like answering their phones for no obvious reason. But so far, I go by what the family says. I have no reason not to. They seem supportive.
So I have an obvious question. In a supportive family, fow come no one noticed/reported her disappearance for the whole week?
My theory is, that they were told something, by PF, or by KB herself, that would calm them and explain her being off the cellphone radar for the week.
So my question is, what could have been said to pacify and calm the parents by PF? That she is driving somewhere where there is no cellphone connection? That she is somewhere where people do not have readily access to their cellphones?
Mental health facility was one of the possibilities I entertained as the
explanation provided to the mother \ by PF - because mental health patients have less access to their cellphones than anyone else.
For all I know, it could be a medical facility (although I can't think of the reason for a hospitalization, a week is a long time and KB was healthy).
Any other pretext for absence that could imply a week's absence and lack of phone communication would be fine by me. I just can't think of anything.
But I also support
@Bill Carson's theory that Kelsey might have sent the texts herself. Implying that she was driving somewhere in Idaho. Or, likely, was driven by someone else and that someone else was involved in her disappearance after she sent those messages.
I have not been following the case for several hours. Maybe I am late with my theories and something has been found?
Maybe, as someone posted, it was a false ping?
But in my imagination, I see Kelsey sitting in PF's, or someone else's car, willingly, to be driven somewhere, and sending these messages on the 25th, and then pretty soon meeting some foul play.
Another reason why I believe her body is not transported in the car to be hidden is absence of any information about cadaver dogs being alerted.
Again, I might be 100% wrong, as all LE's activity is visibly located around PF's and in KB's houses.
But as long as we don't know anything, we can use own theories. And I am following SM, too, but taking it with a grain of salt as posts are of totally opposite nature.
If there is evidence that Kelsey never set foot in Idaho during that fateful time, from Nov 22 till December 2, I shall happily retract my guesses. But so far, no one has either proven or disproven them.
