Hi everybody! Another thing that makes me the girls were at the lake is Lyric's disappearance 4 days earlier. It was in the JVM interview with MCM and DC. DC started talking about this had just happened about 4 days earlier and MCM butted in when he started talking about calling LE and explained Lyric was not that far away to begin with. She was supposed to have been at the park, but they could not find her at the park. I believe it is possible Lyric could have gone to the lake that day. MCM stated Lyric walked up right as she was calling LE, so if we are to believe that, maybe Lyric had borrowed someone else's bike and she and a friend had gone to the lake the first time she went missing. IMO, MCM and DC came down hard on her and she copped to have been at the lake, or someone told MCM that they had seen Lyric at the lake. I believe that is why TB said go to the lake. It was fresh in her mind that Lyric had just done that and Elizabeth was known to have gone to the lake unbeknowst to WC.
Just my opinion, MCM shared with TB that Lyric had been caught going to the lake and first thought when girls turned up missing was that they were more than likely at the lake. MCM or WC (no I don't believe she knew the girls had been to the lake before)didn't want to risk losing their daughter/granddaughter if CPS found out Lyric had been missing so she didn't come forth with that information and definitely did not want to say it on national TV. TB came forth with information that Elizabeth had gone to the lake with friends, just thinking Lyric likely could have too.
I also think 1 perp could have taken both girls....if it was even someone the girls vaguely knew and someone they knew as authoratative (someone who caught the girls doing something they knew they would get in trouble for), or even someone they knew through their parents the girls might have been so surprised by this person. They did not immediately think stranger danger because it was someone with whom they were vaguely famliar. This person shocks them by catching off-guard doing whatever... and tells them that they need to come with them right now. Both girls do what they are told because they think this person is going to take them to grandma and tell her they were at the lake doing whatever.
Also, I believe these girls were very bright. If there was a tazor involved, and if they were trapped so to speak, then tazing one and the other not having the opportunity to escape, this person said, "I'll taze you too if you don't do what I tell you." It might be kind of shocking to a child to see someone tazed in real life. Plus, given Lyric's background, if she saw a gun or a knife and a knife was held to the others throat or a gun held to the other, I'm thinking being caught offguard they would be completely stunned and not sure what do it.... especially if this was not a complete stranger to them. Just guessing.....