Do you all think LE has something else they are holding back? Like a minor identifying mark or article of clothing?
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I just have no ideas. No thoughts on how to search. I feel so incredibly helpless here, it's a terrible feeling. I just keep checking in and hoping for another smidge of info that may give us some renewed hope. Sleuthers sleuth, it's just what we do, it's what helps the crazy and scary. But there is nothing here left to sleuth so me and I'm sure so many of you are just left feeling...helpless.
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Personal feeling is that her death was either accidental or natural, and her mother/parents are either illegal or otherwise "outsiders" - and the parents "community" knows what happened and is keeping quiet.
My opinion only - someone seems to have cared for this child. Ears pierced, no obvious ( reported) signs of neglect or abuse, the inclusion of the blanket. My new brother-in-law made a comment over the weekend (about a totally unrelated topic) that "just because it's in a trash bag doesn't mean it's trash." Maybe the bag was more so protection against the water, especially if we go with placed vs washed ashore. I'm leaning towards unintentional/accidental death that parent (mom?) can't report for some reason. Takes care to wrap little one with her blankey and leave her somewhere secluded enough to do so safely but visible enough to be found. Possible Deer Island holds positive memories for said parent - localish, lived in area but since moved away or vacationed there. I can't see them driving terribly far with dead body so I'm inclined to think fairly close by.
My theory is that it was an accidental death. I think it was most likely a caretaker who was with her and someone else helped them dispose of the body. That would explain the love of leaving her blanket and the careless attitude of dumping her off. Someone thought they'd get into trouble. At first I though a babysitter, but in that case her parents would file a missing person's report. So I'm left to think it's her parent/s.
I would also like to know what type of earrings she was wearing. Are they expensive, cheap, what?
I think she was loved and cared for, I don't know why I think that. Maybe it's hope?
With how advanced forensics have become. Would it really be necessary to withhold unique markings on the child? I mean if someone comes forward saying it's I'm certain she's so and so. LE goes to so and so's house and gets a hairbrush and cross checks DNA. Right? Is there really a reason to withhold? Just curious.
WI don't think she was actually wearing earrings. I think the artist took note of piercings after the rushed image was already released to the public. Otherwise, I'm thinking the artist would not have left out the earrings and/or they would have said "she was wearing earrings" rather than "her ears are pierced"
I'm just hung up on the scenario.
Your child refuses to eat breakfast so as a frazzled, single, busy mom, you snap. The mom would probably strike the child, push the child down, something done in a fit of anger that wasn't intended to kill but did. But no obvious signs of trauma, right? Strike 1.
You accidentally leave your child in a hot car. Is your first inclination to hide the body or get help?
You are a prostitute who has to have your child with you. In the hands of a john or pimp, Baby Doe would not be treated in this manner IMO.
Maybe you're a junkie and you have a record a mile long. Maybe you've got warrants or priors. Baby Doe accidentally got into some of your junk and you don't want to get caught. But wouldn't heroin, meth, coke come up when tested for poisons? I feel like if the tests done so far don't look at those specifically, this is the most feasible scenario I can concoct.
Only reason I could think is, what they have released so far is generic enough that they would have tons of people come forward with leads that they could "quietly" check them out and check them off the list. A definitive descriptor would probably scare the person who committed the crime away by making them think LE is onto them, or revealing them as the person who committed the crime to people who would know of such markings or special shirts or whatever. This way the police are getting tips but not showing their hand. I mean, aside from putting this baby to rest of course, the ultimate goal is to see that justice is done, right?
Purely based on nothing scientific. Just a guess and MOO.
Scenarios 1,3, abd 4 are possible but I'm doubting 2 from reading waaaaay more than I should have on hot car deaths. It's actually a really horrid way to die with a lot of evidence left behind - especially from a 4 year old. Their is a great struggle that takes place to get out. Many year their hair out near right before death. Awful. I know. That's one of the worst details. I won't dive into the rest. But I've read up on this type of death after that dad purposefully left his kid in the car��������
The autopsy reports are very disturbing. So I'm certain COD isn't hot car.
Oh. Picturing a child in their carseat just made me think of carbon monoxide poisoning. Could the mom have left her in the running car because she had fallen asleep. She goes inside and does a load of laundry or the dishes etc. Goes back to check on baby doe while noticing she accidentally closed the garage door, thus baby doe is dead from carbon monoxide poisoning??? I never hear of this really happening, so it seems more like an old wives tale to me. But maybe it happens??
I was wondering where exactly the body was found on the island so I did some investigating. Here is a screen shot from WBZ Boston, the white object is little Doe's body covered with a sheet. Notice the park bench/sitting area in the upper left corner:
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Using this as well as other images, I was able to pinpoint the area on Google map (image is "upside down" with the sea on the right, I did this to match to the media's image). The pink X shows approximate location of her body:
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This Google image is zoomed out and flipped back around so that the sea is on the correct side (left of the island):
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And zoomed out even further...
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I hope the images and pink X's show up well enough, sorry in advance if there are any issues! As you can see, if Doe was placed on the beach as opposed to washing up on shore, the person did not walk/drive very far into the island to do so.
Right. I was disputing the car because it has been brought up here and I don't buy it. Actually I was saying it likely wouldn't be any of these except the last one. Too many things can be ruled out by what LE has released.