wide open door here--"she was never missing, she drowned"
we all think our kids are beautiful and why wouldnt someone else want them too...but come on, how often does someone break in at night and kill or take a kid, then leave without waking anyone or harming anyone else or stealing something?
Very rarely, but it does happen. I'm not attached to a random stranger abduction in this case, but it can't be ruled out, yet. They're usually by luck + all the right circumstances falling into the perps hands. The cells were allegedly stolen in this case.
IF the door was left unlocked = luck. Most perps look for the easy route. It's MOO that
IF an intruder (stranger or not) came in the front door, they might walk through the kitchen, see phones immediately, no need to search aaaaand
might already know which room Lisa slept in, or just peek in each. It's possible to be stealthy / quiet. Lisa may never have made a peep, maybe she didn't fuss at all, maybe she never woke. JI said boys were both heavy sleepers. DB might have been totally exhausted, bday party day before, baby not feeling well, long day, JI gone to work on a new night shift, she might have fallen into a deep sleep, especially if Lisa was sleeping without coughing + fussing. It's plausible this created no ruckus / noise to wake anyone + was done in 5 minutes or less.
I'm not saying this is what I think happened, nor is it the most likely, just that it's possible. It's why I'm stuck on this fence - there's no glaring piece of evidence or anything that throws me off one side or the other. I can work out scenarios in either direction that are possible, not probable, but it's happened before + the world was SURE it was a parent, someone close, someone known, when in fact it was a total stranger - Jessica Lunsford, for example - nobody woke, nobody else harmed, nothing stolen, IIRC.
btw - jumping off your post, not aimed at you in particular, just thinking out loud.