I'm curious about why some posters' radar on this one is going off (wanting to see exactly why their gut impulses match my own) while also recognizing my own tendency to immediately go to worst-case scenario. Judging from his public statements, this guy is a far stronger person than I would be if this happened to my husband of 44 years. I would not be able to compose anything halfway coherent and forward-looking. I would be an utter mess and in total, mute shock. Others would have to make statements for me. (Maybe that's what's happened here.) Also, personality differences might account for such a faith-filled statement afterwards. Though I'm a person of faith, too, I wouldn't be able to voice it so quickly. (Had a sister mysteriously go missing years ago, so know a little about this sort of thing. She surfaced weeks later, thank God, but it puts a family through torment as their imaginations consider every possibility, none of them good.
In the church audios, she speaks so lovingly of her dad and his protectiveness of her when she was younger. Can only imagine this has destroyed him.
In the church audios, she speaks so lovingly of her dad and his protectiveness of her when she was younger. Can only imagine this has destroyed him.