Okay, I just have to jump in here for a sec and say my piece about a few things:
1) Mickey's pipe- I have some friends who smoke flavored tobacco. Since Artmosphere is also a hookah bar, they'd have flavored tobacco and that's why she had the pipe with her. Even if it was used to smoke pot, I doubt she'd be trying to score pot at 2am from some shady dealer. And I absolutely do not think she was using the pipe for smoking crack or meth (and btw, a crack pipe is different from a tobacco/pot pipe & from the description of her pipe, we know it wasn't a crack pipe). I find any insinuation that she was looking to score meth or crack as absolutely ridiculous and hurtful to her family. Also, I think we should stay away from suggesting she was going to pick up pot from someone on her way home at 2am. There's no solid evidence to me that Mickey even smoked pot (again, pipe could be used for flavored tobacco) & if she did, there's no evidence that has anything to do with her disappearance.
2) While I'm disappointed to see that the family has asked ACI not to work the case, I think this is due to them thinking that too many cooks in the kitchen makes it hard for anything to get done. (Now I don't think this is the case, I think everyone who can help should be, but I don't think they have nefarious reasons forasking him to stop) I don't think they don't want help or don't want Mickey found or don't want certains things stumbled upon all of a sudden. I just don't think that's the case. I think they desperately want Mickey found but want the info to go through LE and the PI that works with them (this way also, they can be informed of all the leads, info, etc the PI gets). But goodness, I do wish Abdella would get an email account for us to contact him on and send in tips! That would help! Not bashing him, email would make contacting him so much easier- particularly about stuff we see online or links we want to send him.
3) As far as her mom saying at first that she thinks Mickey was in an accident and the person freaked out and took her. I think this was wishful thinking that someone had not taken her for far more nefarious reasons. I think this was to give the perp an "out" - drop her off somewhere, we don't care about finding who hit her, we just want Mickey, etc. I think as time goes on, she knows the accident theory is statistically unlikely & that someone would have turned in anyone they suspected of an accident for the $25K. I think she always knew the accident was unlikely. Most people on WS seem to think and have from the beginning it was no accident -even if a collision was involved - and that this case reeks of an experienced sexual predator (now granted- I know a ton of people in Lafayette & surrounding areas who are still going with the drunk driver accident theory, but I think that it's safer for them to think that and that they're in denial about the possibility of a sexual predator being in the area - I also think that's why many young women in the area are still out late at night alone, etc. They think it was an accident or at least are telling themselves it was an accident so they won't be so scared). I think Mickey's family was told early on by LE and/or their PI that the situation reeked of an abduction. They just finally have come to accept it or have stopped giving the perp an out at this point.
So....can we please stop trying to insinuate that Mickey was trying to score drugs on her way home that night and that the family doesn't want help or has some inside info they don't want us to stumble upon?
