Alleykins
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According to this article, it sounds like they did try to verify the story, but more recently.When the elderly man came forward in the 80s and gave the story about Simone being in a cop car, did LE ask him for this cops description? Did LE do research to try and find time cards or records as to who would have been on duty at that time? This could help discredit his story or prove that this encounter really did take place...
The article also goes on to state that some of the earlier leads appear to have no follow-up, but that could be because records weren't kept as meticulously as they are today. Not that no one followed up. So there's a chance investigators initially tried to verify the old man's story in 1986, when he came forward, by looking at the state police records, but the findings were not documented or written down anywhere.But nothing ever came of it. Godinho has yet to find documentation in state or local police records of the man being pulled over, and there is no record of an officer or trooper picking up a girl that fit Ridinger’s description.
There was also no mention of why the man was pulled over in the statement taken by police.
“I’ve been trying like a son of a gun to try and confirm this guy’s story,” Godinho said. “There are so many questions.”
Of note in this article, which I hadn't picked up on before, was that the old man said he was from Framingham. Simone had just moved to an apartment in Framingham. What are the chances, of all people and places, that he just happened to be going to the Cape that day, gets pulled over, and is asked to take a girl with him to the Cape, who also just so happens to now be living in Framingham? That's just too coincidental to me. Makes me wonder if they checked out how close in proximity to Simone's new apartment was to this guy's residence.
Extra link I read:
On Teen's 60th Birthday, Detective Still Holds Out Hope
A missing child case has a somber way of shaking a community to its core and echoing through the...
www.missingkids.org