Just caught up and wanted to add a few thoughts.
Great points, Gitana. While occasionally members of the public find or report leads that help investigators, they don’t owe us any disclosure. They owe Kelsey justice and shouldn’t compromise that end to satisfy people like us.
I continue to think the most likely outcome is that Kelsey met with foul play at the hands of someone close to her, which is why it makes sense that they are searching her fiance’s family’s property. I expected that to happen.
AND I share everyone’s disbelief that the fiancé hasn’t made even minimal attempts to appear publicly cooperative. He didn’t report her missing, has not sat down with investigators, didn’t come to the press conference, isn’t personally calling for her safe return, and isn’t publicly organizing search parties.
The most likely explanation for acting in this manner, in my opinion, is that he has something to hide. As even *if* he was no longer her fiancé, even an innocent man would tell police what he knows and might come out on a media interview and say, “Those who know us know that Kelsey and I haven’t been in a close relationship for some time. But we continued to work together for the sake of raising our daughter. I join everyone else in praying for the safe return of my daughter’s mother.”
My strongest leaning is that he is involved.
However, I always want to uphold the purest form of justice, that doesn’t project the most likely scenario on every person but leaves room for facts to prove out another less likely scenario.
Since there is *yet* to be a body, blood, or any sign of a struggle, and since there is *yet* to be any video footage to prove or disprove the timeline after Safeway, I still do leave a little room for other possibilities. In part because 800 miles is a long way to go for a ping, in part bc PF’s initial story seemed to have satisfied investigators for a time, in part bc of comments like those Kelsey’s cousin made (i.e. why did no one report her? it’s a long story...you’ll understand when it comes out).
The only other possibility that makes PF’s behavior make any sense to me given the little we know now, although veryyyyy unlikely, is this:
—If, hypothetically, Kelsey and PF hadn’t been officially together for a long time. Maybe they were still open to getting back together someday, for example, but had called off any exclusive relationship or engagement. It’s possible LE has even been able to confirm something like this with locals who know them.
—If, hypothetically, PF genuinely knows Kelsey left on her own accord, but he himself cannot explain how the time has stretched out so long. There is sensitive information about Kelsey and/or their relationship that he is protecting from the public bc of either loyalty to Kelsey or to protect his daughter’s future reputation.
—If, hypothetically, PF sees participating in the investigation as if he was the “most intimate person to her” as a farce or untruth because he operates as more of an acquaintance and civil co-parent in reality. If that were the case, he may be stalling bc he may expect Kelsey to return and clear this all up in time.
—If, hypothetically, Kelsey met with death or foul play at the hands of someone else, PF may know that he is statistically the most likely suspect. He may feel like he has to do everything he can to ensure his daughter does not lose access to her only remaining parent.
And be clear I am not blaming Kelsey...nor discussing alternatives bc I want to further victimize women who disappear at the hands of others. By all accounts, Kelsey seems like an outstanding human being who left little evidence to suggest she is anything besides a stable and loving working mother. But although we all see what is most likely, real justice (and plenty of other cases) demands we await evidence to rule out other possible outcomes we have seen in other cases. That includes that she was harmed by someone other than the partner we know about (Mollie T case), that she could’ve had an accident (Toni A.), that she, for reasons we don’t understand, could have exercised her right as an independent woman to leave for some time on her own accord (although unlikely, we have many examples of this as well).
I hope, and I honestly somewhat expect, the search warrant will yield answers. So if anyone participated in harming or holding Kelsey on that property, I hope they have not been able to destroy all evidence given the nature of farms and construction equipment and rural back country and so forth. But I feel like this is a patience game. We need more information to understand the full picture. And I have become excited about search warrants before (RL - Delphi), only for them to turn up no connection and the investigation to then turn elsewhere.
I’ve said, I hope they release more information in case some of what they say would help provoke public memory...and maybe prompt someone to recall an important detail. But I understand and respect they might not be able to tell us more.