Here's another scenario. A monk has been targeting and molesting young men/children for years. He gets away with it because he is, after all, a priest and priests don't do that, especially when victims are too afraid to tell anyone because they've been threatened. The monk has an esteemed position at the university. His peers are aware of his proclivities because many of them share the same inclinations. The university/abbey does a good job keeping all the bad stuff under wraps because they are well connected with their alumni and the community. After all, the football team has a wonderful reputation and is a great moneymaker for the school. The alumni certainly don't want to be made aware of anything nefarious going on because think how that would tarnish their degree. And the football games and alumni events wouldn't be as much fun. The monks carry on, victims start complaining, a fellow who was a "fixer" at the abbey gets sick of the whole mess, gets out of the business of being a monk and joins a law firm. The former "fixer" is intimately aware of how much illegal activity has been going on, how it has been covered up and how much has been lied about. A number of sex offenders are "confined" to the campus (where some of their favorite prey are located) and yet are seen throughout the community. There is little to no "supervision" of them. A couple of the monks come across as especially odd, secretive, cold, dead eyed -- at the time Jacob was abducted and Joshua went missing, these monks had not yet had their sexual offenses exposed. Efforts made to expose them were quickly squelched by the abbey. The sheriff was never one to interfere with the activities at the abbey, because when the abbot told him that the church has its own laws and remedies for how sexual offenses are handled, he went along with that. When Jacob was abducted, only a few of the monks involved in criminal activity were publicly known. The others weren't exposed until a law firm representing some victims and an independent advocate started outing the molesters. When JG vanished from the campus, whispers began about who might have been involved. A professor began to study the case in depth. One of his specialties is personality profiling of politician, but his training and skills can be applied to criminal cases as well. Being located at the school, he has had the benefit of observing these monks for a very long time. He believes that it is unusual to have numerous sexual predators operating within a specific geographic territory. He surmises there may be a particular monk(s) involved, mainly due to the now documented knowledge of many of their sordid histories. He looks at the targets in the community thus far - young adolescents to older teens. The police never interview nor investigate the sex offenders at the abbey -- not until much later. Whatever information they found, they will not reveal, stating that both Jacob's case and JG's case are active investigations. Jacob's has always been active, but in my opinion not Joshua's. For a long time it was stated by the sheriff that Joshua's disappearance from the campus was most likely an accident of some kind. A monk's room was searched after he passed. The sheriff will not reveal what, if anything, was found. Fast forward to 2010, DR's farm is investigated for a third time and he is named a POI. Where has DR worked in the past? St. John's and St. Benedicts, the same location where some of the most notorious sex offender monks worked. How well did he know some of these monks? Did anyone ever ask him? Where were these particular monks when Jacob was abducted? Did DR associate with any of these monks after hours? On the computer? Anytime or anywhere? Did they share any common interests? Did DR ever cross paths with JG? Did DR know where the cabins were that the monks liked to enjoy a little "down" time? Can people who may share certain tastes ever consort with one another? Can someone have something that looks like a gun but isn't really a gun -- such as a toy gun? Were DR's guns confiscated? What was on his computer? What was on the computer of the monk who suddenly died of an aneurysm and showed up at the morgue with extreme trauma on his head due to a "fall?" Is there a common denominator? Where is all the evidence? Where is the evidence for DR after four years? How thoroughly were the grounds of the abbey searched were particular monks liked to hang out to do their gardening etc etc? What about the numerous cabins and properties the church owns in rural locations in MN? A boy is abducted in the area, a young man suddenly disappears from the campus, other young people are sexually assaulted and none of the sex offenders at the abbey are questioned about their whereabouts on those nights? Why not?
