Knox
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What is weird & outrageous to a child Lindsey's age is different from what might be classed that way by us. Goths and disaffected teenagers, for example, were types she already knew. To a ten year old girl, the identity of her attacker might deeply shock her, someone she would never have believed that of. Also the specifics of the manner of attack could seem outrageous. The people you mention who are sleuthing are a couple of levels of abstraction above such details and particulars when they think and talk about trafficking, rape, murder, abduction.
Thought process
In [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy"]philosophical terminology[/ame], abstraction is the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking"]thought process[/ame] wherein [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea"]ideas[/ame] are distanced from objects. Abstraction uses a [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy"]strategy[/ame] of simplification, wherein formerly concrete details are left ambiguous, vague, or undefined.
Thank you Tuba, I was unsure how to interpret your last sentence, so I looked up abstraction. If I am off the mark on the use of the word as you intended please correct me.
In sleuthing the who, what and how of Lindsey's disappearance how can we better direct our sleuthing efforts? I haven't posted recently, but I still think about this case daily. The list of POI's seems endless and many, when looked at within the context of what we know of the case, could fit as the perp. Are we overlooking something the charts are telling us?