ScottyMcGee
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I've been searching everywhere for more details on this. Where was the lock? Which door?
This keeps nagging at me. If she were tied up dialing random numbers you would hear rustling of some kind, or distant noise. Also, it's not entirely random - what are the chances that two random numbers you enter in your phone will be in your same state? Even less random - the same county. EVEN LESS RANDOM - THE SAME AREA CODE. I looked up the three towns - Risco, Gideon and Clarkton. They are all within more or less 10 minutes of each other. All three towns have the same area code - 573. She must have been intentionally dialing numbers within the same area code. This means she probably wasn't tied up in a way to prevent her from doing this. But it only adds more mystery as to why there was just dead silence. If she were thrown in the trunk of a car you would have heard movement. UNLESS - the car stopped, and she dialed nearby numbers in hopes of leaving a phone trace behind. But she didn't say anything becuase the abductor(s) didn't realize she had her phone on her and she was too scared to say anything.
Another possibility is that the calls were made by the abductor(s) themself. This could temporarily throw the police off track as they try to investigate other leads that would be dead-ends. I think this could be too much out of their way though. It would make more sense for Teresa to have dialed.
Also, what time was the second phone call made? I've been trying to find that tidbit too.
Did they still look into all these fingerprints and DNA traces? Regardless if she contaminated herself frequently with other people's DNA and fingerprints from cutting hair, these should be looked at. Somewhere in that thicket could be an answer.
This is frustrating because I desperately want to know what's in that letter. Was it handwritten? Typed? I bet it didn't have a return address obviously. I'm surprised they couldn't come up with any leads from this. If Gary still thinks she's alive, it's not anything that implies danger or harm to Teresa. It must be some kind of obscure phrase or babble or a threat to him and the sons that he's freaked out about.
The burglar(s)/kidnapper(s) doesn't necessarily have to be physically weak. Most of the time you don't want to create that big of a scene. If you move too many things you create a trail of evidence. These items are easy grab-n-bag stuff. Plus, they wouldn't have wanted to stick around for too long in case the boys woke up.
Just you. There have been times when I called up my girlfriend (and vice versa) around 11 PM and she didn't answer and I said to myself "She probably passed out already". It's not so alarming to raise a red flag, IMO. We have to consider the fact that this family had lived hundreds of normal days and they would be hard pressed to think of the abnormal. Daily life makes you slow, bogs down your critical thinking, leaves you totally unaware of what could go wrong.
Not necessarily so. I know many low income people (my girlfriend herself) who own such equipment. They just know how to save for things they really want. Sometimes I too wonder how the hell some friends of mine with lower incomes have cooler stuff than me but then I realize it's because I'm just not that stingy with my money. Plus, a lot of those things can be bought for cheap used, refurbished or knockoff brands. The Jeep could be used or leased for all we know. But even if it were bought, it's not a great indicator that they could have used drug money to buy it.
I think the drug dealer theory is stretching it. Too many holes in it. It just wouldn't be kept quiet for this long. There would have been more clues before her disappearance. People who do meth and other hard drugs tend to become disheveled and lose teeth. Dealing weed is small time stuff and is much less likely to get out of hand. I have a relative who did meth and I spotted it right away. She looks absolutely horrible. Going by weight loss alone as the physical clue is too general. Also - the kids. Kids are always unpredictable and say the darnest things. They could have said stuff midly suspicous. Not that they would understand, but they would slip something out that a cop would know. Also, the police would have definitely found out by now. You can't keep that under the radar for this long after what happened. Unless this is really a crap town with poor police work. Still - I don't see this happening.
I'm thinking somewhere along the lines of a stranger from Wal-Mart having approached her and taken her.
Let's see - small, rural town Amercia. Wal-Marts always attract odd people. She could have become acquaintences with a frequent customer who became interested in her. She had no idea he was a creeper with sexual or other malicious intentions. There are numerous ways they could have figured out where she lived. Heck, maybe she used the Photo Lab to print out her own photos and printed out some of her house, prompting a discussion with said frequent customer about where she lived.
If that alleged sighting of Teresa is true, the abductor(s) would have drugged her to keep her disoriented in public, unable to say who she is and what happened.
My theory could change based on some more details I mentioned above that I don't know about.
For example: was the key in the lock an extra copy of the house key that Gary doesn't remember making? Because Wal-Marts have those key copier machines. This could support my theory where a stranger(s) who kept visiting Teresa at her job became infatuated with her, and then when she wasn't around they copied her key. This could also explain why the key broke off in the lock. Those machine are never 100% accurate. I copied a key once on one of those machines and it came out horrible - I couldn't open the door with it.
