If an exact description can be put out immediately regarding what she was wearing - right down to the color of her socks - then even if no one remembered which book bag she was carrying on that day, did anyone ask the siblings? They were with her on the ride to school that morning and on the walk home. And even if the siblings didn't remember, how long would it take to take inventory?! Go through her closet, her room, or wherever the book bags were tossed when not in use, and just figure out which one was missing, and put out a description - just like a description of the exact color of the sweat suit/jumpsuit (cranberry) with pink silky stripes on the arms & legs, and just like the exact color of her hair bow (red) and just like the exact color of her socks (gray & blue striped), and just like the exact description of her shoes (rainbow colored).
No one had a photo or artist's rendition of her sweat suit/jumpsuit, or her shoes, or her socks, or her hair bow.
These were all described by the mother in great detail and we could all picture them based on their description.
Why was this never done with the mysterious book bag?! Why was inventory not taken immediately to determine which one was missing, and a description of what color, what style, what designs or emblems, or whatever might have conjured up a picture in the public's mind?
Okay - I guess I've launched another discussion about the book bag. Oh dear.
But it just has never made sense to me that with all the other concise descriptions of clothing, that the book bag she took that day couldn't have been figured out sooner (if she has 5 or 6 - then which one wasn't in the pile?!) and it just never made sense that with all the interviews, DT couldn't have come up with a description of the book bag sooner.
No - the public had to wait 3 weeks for an artist's rendition, because DT didn't know which one she took that day.