eyeseestars
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eyeseestars,
Please see excerpt and bolded sentences below from NL 06/07/02; then my comment following.
News-Leader 06/07/2002
(Snipped for word count)
Janis was a little upset that her daughter didn't stay where she had planned to sleep. But she would talk with Stacy about that later.
For the time being, she called Suzie's and left instructions on the answering machine for Stacy to call her when she returned.
Like Janelle and Mike, Janis was worried but not alarmed. The McCall family went to Lake Springfield to watch miniature boats race, as planned. Janis' mother from Oklahoma was in town, and the family enjoyed a hot day in the sun together.
Janis had talked to Janelle, who explained that she and Mike couldn't find Stacy and Suzie.
As the day wore on, Janis' voice on Suzie's answer machine was getting more frantic, her concern evident. Her worry grew when she got a call from a friend, the mother of one of Stacy's close friends.
"Are you aware Stacy's purse and her car and Suzie's car is still at Sherrill's house but the girls aren't?" the woman said.
The sun was starting to set. Janis and one of her two older daughters jumped in the car and drove toward the tiny house on Delmar. The plan was that the sister would drive Stacy's car home.
"I was going to let her look for her car and clothes," Janis says. "I thought, `That serves you right. You didn't let me know anything and I won't let you know.'"
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Now, at this point Mrs. McCall has worried all day and has been made well aware of the strange circumstances at Delmar; but yet on the drive to Delmar she is thinking of punishing Stacy? Goes to show you that she didn't have an inkling either. Hindsight is 20/20. This only highlights that no one - not even Mrs. McCall - a mom - in her wildest dreams couldn't fathom that her daughter, Suzanne and Mrs. Levitt had been abducted. Yet, Janelle should have? Yes, after knowing their daughter's clothes, habits, etc. and instinct - Mrs. McCall called her husband. They knew LE needed to be called.
Where was janelle at 10:30? Why didn’t janelle tell mrs McCall she had been to the house? Why didn’t janelle tell police about the 3:30 visit? Why didn’t she tell the police about the obscene phone calls? Why didn’t she call someone at that point or for the next four hours after that if she was so worried she was crying? Why was she wet at 10:00pm? Why did her mother’s story change from 1) I last saw Susie and Stacy at 9:00pm, then to 2) At 2am I asked them to stay the night here but they declined because they didn’t want to impose, to 3) I last heard them outside at 2:00am but didn’t talk to them..... These are all questions that need answering. There may indeed be a legitimate (albeit silly) reason having to do with janelle’s reputation but until we can understand that, none of this adds up.
As for mrs McCall, I would say that as a parent, a mental defense exists that prevents you from believing anything horrific has happened to your child. She still (to my knowledge) has not had Stacy declared legally dead even today. Her actions of being “mad” in my opinion were nothing more than a self preservation tactic once she heard that the purses and keys and cars were at the home and she realized something was truly amiss. Up until that point, she had not been to the house or been notified by Janelle (the person who had by then been to the house three times) of the grim circumstances. Once she was notified of these facts she went directly to the home where everyone, including Janelle, her mother and father, etc were apparently laying in wait to descend moments later. She then still called the police who arrived within the hour, all the while openly wondering about the kirby’s strange behavior of making coffee and lounging about.
we can debate these points all day long and come to different conclusions, but until I am satisfied that Janelle was simply hiding something like her sexual escapades with Mike, I will continue to find her actions extremely suspicious.