I didn't claim it so I'm not looking for it. I'm going with TG's statement.
I've asked those who claimed it to provide a link but so far nothing.
I'm not saying he DIDN'T say it...I'd just like confirmation (even if it is only msm).
:dunno:
I'm still trying to find this link. I do remember seeing that about the bikes, so unless they've updated the story hopefully I can find it.
In the meantime I think I found the transcript of the show where a bunch of the changes to the stories started happening. Particularly the 20' for the purse and cell:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1207/16/ijvm.01.html. Sheesh I just realized I've even linked to this page before and missed a ton of stuff. Now of course I have to try and dig for the original stories to make sure it's a change and not a fuzzy brain.
Please note that I'm not saying this is
reliable but since it's CNN I think it counts as MSM. I can't quite tell if the changes (if they are changes) came from family, the reporter, or even other MSM- (probably some combo. This transcript has the 20' for the "bag" insead of the original 10' that some of us remember, and it shows the change from "Elizabeth's purse" to "the bag
s" implying both girls had some sort of purse or bag or something.
A few quotes I found interesting from the transcript. My comments are in brackets to help separate from the transcript quotes.
[On July 16th a lot of the same questions we have now were coming up from JVM who I've never watched but she apparently does a show similar to Nancy Grace's?):
I also have questions about how were the bikes left? Were they on a kickstand? Did they look like they were left there deliberately, or were they scattered on the ground?
And also about one of the bags -- the bag that little Elizabeth had, being 20 feet away. Does the other child have a cell phone, too? Did she leave with a bag? There are so many unanswered questions.
[Below is the closest thing I've found to an answer, obviously second or third hand info unfortunately:]
KERA MASHEK, REPORTER, KWWL: We have been told that the bikes were laying very neatly, just like any child that might get off their bike and go for a walk. They were just sitting right there along the lake side like any other ordinary day, nothing really awry with that. And the purse was also just kind of sat down -- not like it was thrown around or that they would, you know, been involved in a struggle of any kind.
The girls` grandmother was the last to see these two girls, ages 8 and 10, Friday when they left on their bikes. That`s what kids do. That`s what kids do in the summertime. And they were smart enough to go together, the buddy system.
She says they take this trip all the time. They`ve taken it thousands of times, she said, with no problem. So far investigators are totally baffled and perplexed by their disappearance.
[BBM...
what?!? I definitely had not seen this before. I don't know exaxctly what she meant by "this trip" though.]
MORRISSEY: I think that my daughter, you know, I can speak for my daughter, that yes, she might want to get into that lake.
RUSSO: But we feel they would have took their shoes off, their flip- flops.
[eww... again I know this may be my own personal gross-out thing but really? A kid would want to get into a lake with a bunch of leeches? Maybe out of desperation but I don't think so for fun. MOO and all. ]