yes it was. The Grandfather. It had also been reported that Elizabeth talked to her mother on the cell phone and told her to come home (it is somewhere in this thread...)
Elizabeth walks four houses away back from her friend's house and ends up dead... deep in the woods (quite a walk I am sure), and we find out another child did it.
Looking at the time she left (1815) to the time she was reported missing (1900)... well that is not much time to kill someone and drag them deep into the woods in the midwest where we currently have quite a few leaves down and lots of mud from all the recent rains. I am thinking this had to do with an argument at the home of the friend and that child followed her out (or could have snuck out after her)... We do know from the presser that this child in custody was an acquaintance.
We also know from the presser that LE White said that they got the letters after the am press briefing. When media asked how and where they got them he declined comment... could it be that the child tried to throw off investigators? Remember that "note" in the Sandra Cantu case??? (Melissa Huckaby rather reminds me of a juvie herself) I also will not be the slightest surprised if we find out that the parents/grandparents/etc of this child~offender knew their own child was not around at the time of the crime but were told another story such as, "I was out playing", "I went out to feed the dogs", etc (just thoughts)
These are all just my thoughts and nothing more... this is a horrible case with yet another horrible ending.