I know she wasn't with her bio-mom. I must just be more suspicious than most. I would have called the school and found out, especially when the bio-dad and the GF keep giving different accounts of the same few hours.
The biomom probably doesn't know she has the right to see her daughter's school records and speak to her teacher. She could have called that school everyday to see if she was in attendance, imo.
She also has the right to speak to and get information about the kids from any and all caregivers.
However, with all the court filings, she may have been intimitated to not do anything that the dad perceived as assertive or aggresive.
This tells me that whoever took this child either didn't know this dad, and what was going to happen to him when the dad found him or is more of a hard*ss than the dad. I don't think the mom or anyone in the mom's family did this to protect Haleigh, or they would have taken the boy also.
To me, this leaves someone the gf knows, someone who doesn't like how she is being treated and wanted to get back at him, the gf herself, or a stranger that didn't know the dad, but did know the area, and possibly the dwelling itself.
If I lived in the area, I'd be looking around for who else is/was missing the first day she went missing, and report it to LE, because it's probably a local. It doesn't appear to be a very populated area, so it shouldn't be too hard if the public just looks around. jmo