(cont'd)
Understand, I am not excusing TH's behavior, because I think she has a boatload of problems.
But there also seems to have been a lot of toxic feelings and behaviors in that "extended family."
How TH wound up taking care of Kyron and the "friendship" between the 2 women has gone through widely varied stories. That whole thing was strange.
It's become apparent that KH, SM and SD all agree on one things: they hold TH in disdain, and I don't think that's new. Another poster here said a few days back that it was like TH had started as "servant" and moved up to wife. Agreed. And how did she get into all that anyway? Was it via Kaine? I also note that DY divorced KH *before* the baby was born, which indicates a real set of problems.
Then there's the constant focus on TH, TH, TH and the constant smearing. Plus how, according to KH & LE, LE keep telling them things about TH. Which brings me to this question: how much of the focus on TH comes from things said to LE by the other 3 adults? Obviously, there's real vitriol in the mix--and DY's husband is a detective. So has a lot of stuff flowed from KH & DY straight to the ears of cops as gospel if it came through SF?
ADDED IN EDIT (accidentally whacked out as I tidied post for typos)--and, speaking of plots and problems. Suppose as the marriage was unraveling, KH had told TH "I'll make sure you never see these kids again." Now suppose TH a) actually loved the little boy she'd been raising b) was worried about $ that would come w/child support c) a combination of a & b and d) didn't think he could take her own daugher, and wanted to figure out a way to not have Kyron taken away? (Again, sheer conjecture).
There's just too much hinky in all this.
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I still am not happy that the little boy's testimony about seeing and briefly talking with Kyron after TH left was so heavily discounted so early.
This poor little boy evidently lived in a cauldron of discord and adult problems, ranging from bigger half-brother having to leave because of problems with KH to all this animosity between the adults. Now he's missing, we're watching a mini Peyton Place, and so far, there has been so much emphasis on TH--especially from LE--and so much drama that Kyron's fate seems to be subtext now to something larger.
I want them to find Kyron, and to find the guilty parties, and to have enough clear, untainted evidence to find them legally guilty in court. But right now, I think the investigation has become a mishmash, is stalled, and maybe got off with tunnel vision on one person only.
I don't think TH walked Kyron out of that school. And if she'd said "oh, run look at something then meet me at the truck" I think Kyron might have said to his little friend: "yea, but gotta hurry, Mom wants me outside for a few minutes." (Sheer conjecture)
This is not to say that I believe TH to be innocent, not at all. But I also do not see enough to say that she's guilty, and that she did this all by herself. And I've seen some things from and about KH that make me wonder just how patient a parent he was--he may have been very controlling and perfectionistic and contributed to Kyron's timidity. I don't know--but I do know that all kinds of things are out there in what seems to be a personal brawl via media vs. "we just want our little boy back."
Whew. If anyone read all this, thanks.
And now I'm going to adjust my sun hat, fan myself, and trudge, trudge behind any bandwagons. I'm just too skeptical of too many people right now and too skeptical how what information has gotten to police--and back out--and how and why, and if the police followed a personal animosity as their lead and focused too much on TH at first, overlooking other stuff.
Trudge. Trudge.
