So much appreciation to everyone who has been pulling information in an effort to find Amiah's remains. Special commendations to margarita for hours and hours of continuing research to improve and add to the magnificent timeline; to Kadoober for transcribing the entire press conference (and for the beautiful sandhill cranes interlude); and to book-thinker for contacting the missing persons detective to fill in gaps.
I'm sorry I stepped away from the thread after the press conference. Until the PC, I had some hope Amiah was alive somewhere. To find out she had actually last been seen March 9th and this was really a homicide investigation was devastating.
I don't have a lot of hope for our society. Experts say the opioid crisis is only getting worse. As a volunteer, I've taken care of a formerly abandoned cemetery for 32 years. Six of our last eight burials have been ODs of people in their 20s and 30s. Most left behind infants and children and highly dysfunctional families with other substance-addicted family members.
The "dirt" I have on Robbie Lyons is all from social media, so I don't think I can add it here. Most of the information comes from screenshots of text messages people have gotten from Robbie's step-father and his mother. Can I share any of that without violating TOS?
I'll simply say that Robbie's step-father, MC, has done a live interview with the neighbor that provided LE with surveillance videos and he has been all over social media saying Robbie couldn't be responsible for this crime because Robbie doesn't drive and doesn't have a car. The police have clearly rebutted that by telling us Robbie was driving a maroon 1996 Isuzu Rodeo on March 9. MC has said that Robbie is a drug addict. In Robbie's mugshot, he has severe acne, the kind you see with methamphetamine use.
I agree with many other posters that the question of Amiah's paternity may have fueled Robbie's anger. If, as some posters have suggested, Indiana would have required a paternity test to go after Amiah's biological father for child support, you would think that paternity has been established. Is it possible AR hasn't sought out child support from the biological father? Could it be that the Indiana courts had not yet determined paternity when Amiah went missing?