What's been nagging at me is the fact that they are questioning 5 pm - 10 pm. What's peculiar is that generally it doesn't get dark around here until 9:30-9:45 usually. (I'm less than 3 hours from Brooklyn) So how in the world is someone going to nab someone in daylight? I'm just so confused as each day passes.
The 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. is a time bracket that puts MT's last known "confirmed" sighting, around 7:30 p.m., squarely in the middle. (Maybe later, 8? or 9?, by subsequent reports). I'm sure that LE has her timeline for that evening down cold (as they have assured us), based on eye witness accounts and digital data. We can now feel confident that she went missing between 7:30 and 10:00 p.m., the evening of the 18th, a 2 1/2 hour window. She should have made it to her mother's no later than 8:30 pm, to eat dinner, and to pick up the car and a red work shirt for the next day. This implies that she was taken on her run, usually 45 minutes in length, likely closer to 8 p.m. than 9 p.m. Her mother's MSM statement that MT's running clothes, shoes and other gear have not been found at MT's residences tends to bear this out. The issues about the contact lenses/eyeglasses and early LE leaks about homework being done later in the evening have been explained, in detail, in many posts above. But, you are right, this time line implies that she was taken during her run, while looping back to her mom's, while it was still light out. Sunset that day was around 8:41 p.m., with another half hour of civil twilight it would have been light until a bit after 9 p.m., and she would have likely been taken by 8:30 p.m. That evening, you would have been required to put your headlights on at no later than 9:11 p.m. in Brooklyn, IA.
It is possible for a two person team, using the ubiquitous (white) panel contractor's van (or contract delivery van) with a sliding passenger side cargo door, to snatch and grab a music distracted runner in less than 30 seconds without having to actually stop the van (a rolling stop and go). Unless you were actually positioned to watch it happen, from behind the van or on the passenger side of the van, she would simply be there one moment, and then gone the next as the van rolled on. The observation by DR that she may have been running with a pony tail would make it even easier to do this. There is even a genre of "Rape Van" *advertiser censored* that encourages this fantasy, and which demonstrates this maneuver (you can find anything on the web). Yes, taking someone while it is still light out IS a bold move. Unfortunately, in this circumstance, fortune might well favor the bold as MT is missing, and we still don't know for sure how it happened. MOO
