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philamena said:I find this alarming. Why after 5 years are her parents telling the public about a strange suitcase filled with Barbie dolls that were not Beaner's? Why didn't LE give that very important piece of evidence creedence? Did they test the suitcase for fingerprints?????:behindbar :doh:
philamena said:SewingDeb,
It certainly sounds that way. I am shocked that this is being reported now. I followed this case and I honestly do not remember that information.
This part of the story brings a few things to mind:Rle7 said:The parents of Leanna Warner say their daughter was behaving strangely in the weeks leading up to her disappearance in 2003.
Leanna Warner's parents, Chris and Kaelin Warner, told the syndicated TV show "Maury,'' hosted by Maury Povich, that their daughter appeared one day with a case filled with Barbie dolls and their clothes, but would only say she'd gotten them from "a little old lady."
Their daughter, nicknamed "Beaner,'' also packed a suitcase a week before she vanished, saying she wanted to go live at her "new family's house,'' the mother said, according to excerpts released by the show, which was scheduled to air Wednesday.
And they say that two weeks before she disappeared, they found Leanna sleeping in the closet.
"She said there were monsters outside her window,'' Chris Warner told the Duluth News Tribune. "I actually went out and looked, because you never know if there's a footprint out there. The second time, I said: 'They won't get you.' That was a real eye-opener. Our flags kind of went up at that time.''
Leanna was 5 years old when she was last seen June 14, 2003, after walking over to a friend's house to play.
http://www.startribune.com/462/story/735071.html
Do the parents still have the case and the dolls? Could there be fingerprints on them?docwho3 said:This part of the story brings a few things to mind:
1. It is usual for someone to give a child toys to keep them quiet about having been molested. Her reluctance to talk about who gave the dolls to her supports that possibility.
2. The monsters outside the window may have been real 2 legged ones or this could well have been her reaction to having been molested by someone, whether this was someone in the home, near the home or a stranger I do not know.
3. What did the case that the dolls were in look like? (I have a reason to ask since I have run into a case of barbie dolls in a yard sale once years ago so this story caught my attention.)
I will never understand this either. I think that is neglect, pure and simple. My oldest is 10 and I will not let him go to the park 4 houses up from us without an adult. There is to much evil in this world for parents not to watch what thier children are doing.wondering22 said:Hi, the way I remember it, is that the family spent several hours at the beach, and when they came home, Leeanna wanted to see her friend who she played with everyday. Her friend lived a few houses away, just around the corner --- so, no, not a block away, but just a few houses away.
If we could transport you from Australia to the many tiny rural towns of an economically depressed northern Minnesota... where in some respects, it seems that time has stood still for many decades... then you might understand why many small children are permitted to travel such distances by themselves.
Even in larger American cities, I've seen four, five, and six year olds permitted to visit houses of friends "down the block" unaccompanied by any adult.
However, there are also plenty of Americans who'd never permit that until the child was at least 8 years of age.
Unfortunately, I don't think that the public at large really has any idea how potentially downright dangerous it is out there for youngsters.