Steleheart
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Only if there were any evidence they had planned to meet someone IMO.
Eta.cross post with BOP.
If they planned on meeting someone I am 100% positive LE would have them in their sights. In todays world with SM there seems to be no way they didn't have some communication electronically.
ETA - I hope it was someone they were there to meet because it seems much easier that LE can track them down.
If they were meeting someone secretly then they may not have arranged it via SM at all. Or they could have used an app that doesn't keep a record. That would be difficult to trace if that were the case. MOO.
RE the meeting someone or catfishing - I am unsure now but in the beginning LE was saying that they had no evidence of that. Now I know what it means when LE says "we have no evidence of that" - it could change at some point, but the FBI and especially the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force have the best means of tracking electronic foot prints - even behind a firewall. I feel that was high on the list of early priorities the first day.
With that I am confident that what Slocum said is true. From the media thread;
2/22/17
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1702/22/ptab.01.html
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"CASAREZ: Now, I know that you had also gone into today about whether this was someone that they were intending to meet or a stranger crime or someone
that knew the girls. But it appeared as though you were leaning upon a chance encounter was unlikely, but that they knew -- that maybe he knew
that those girls would be there.
SLOCUM: Well, we`re not quite sure if it was a chance encounter or -- evidence indicates at this time that we don`t have any leading us to they
were meeting. We believe it was two teenage girls going out on a nice day and enjoying a beautiful trail."
2/21/17
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1702/21/ptab.01.html
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"CASAREZ: Do you believe that these young girls at all could have been innocently communicating with someone who may have even not led to his real
identity, to meet that person at this trail for a couple of hours?
SLOCUM: Well, anything`s possible, but the evidence we have thus far has not revealed that to be true. Unfortunately, these young ladies were just
doing what teenage girls do. They were -- they were enjoying a beautiful day on a beautiful trail in a beautiful part of Indiana, and these crimes
occurred.