I agree that it is odd that we hear so little about or from the father. I am not sure any phone calls were important or not important. It could simply have been prank calls or wrong numbers. It would be nice to have traced the calls but I can live without it since it appears we have no choice. And who said the calls existed and were traced L.E. or noreen?Insguru said:Beyond the "phone call" (and gee, if this is true, doesn't anyone besides me think this is just a little bit important????), we hear nothing about the father or the 2 siblings (older I think, than Johnny) in terms of how they "acted" back then or what their thoughts are today on all of this. Obviously they are not publicity seekers, but I find it strange that you can find no comments, etc., from any of them, especially after the pictures came out a few weeks back. . .
"Official report of how many people" - say what? Was there one (an "official report")? I mean I have never read where L.E. actually had witnesses to any "abduction" at the time of his disappearance when it was still fresh in the news. (I am trying to say all that with a chuckle so we don't all sit down and cry over the lack of info as tempting as it may be- smile.) All I ever read was that maybe someone had been seen talking to him and I don't remember that info as being an official release of any kind (It may have been an official release but I don't remember for sure so don't want to make a claim I can't, at the moment, back up.)Insguru said:. . .I'm not even convinced I understand the "official" report of how many people abducted him..if its one or two..so many important details seem to be sketchy.
Why am I pointing out that there is even little hard evidence that an abduction took place? Because without reliable eye witnesses to an abduction being mentioned by L.E. or without forensic evidence being mentioned by L.E. we don't know for sure that one or more parents was not involved in his disappearance and in starting at square one I figure the parents are first on the list that need to be eliminated and so far I can't for sure rule them out with the little reliable info available.
I seem to remember reading about a dinner type alibi but I am not yet convinced the timeline of the disappearance is correct as I remember it so until I get reliable info I am still stuck with the parents remaining on the suspect list.
It seems unlikely a 10 years old could have run away and gotten by with it undetected all these years but I can not totally rule it out if he had managed to convince an adult that he was in danger at home and needed to be kept hidden.
If witnesses saw the boy talking to grown men just before he disappeared I want to know who saw him, boys or adults and I want to know if those people have proven to be stable people as the years have gone by.