http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=3139
Oct. 2, 2009 article.
This has been posted before.
But I am struck by the fact that Kaila is described as very shy, a homebody, a voracious reader.
She had her own condo with her stepbrother.
She went to school part time.
She had a job.
She had her own car. She liked to be the one to drive.
She had a dog.
She is visiting her mom's house. Her car is parked in front of the garage.
Step father says right before he went into the bathroom,
he says he saw Kaila rummaging in the right side of
her car.
Her purse was found in her car. Her wallet was in the house.
He says he 'heard' Kaila talking, but not the words.
But he did 'see' the van.
Her best friend shows up 15 min.
after she supposedly leaves in the van, looking for Kaila.
There is no cell phone reception at the house.
Contact with best friend through FB, but no talk of Kaila coming over to bf's house that day.
Mom, who is on vacation in Florida, talks with best friend through FB the next day and find no one has seen Kaila after she was said to have left in a van.
This seems fairly straightforward to me.
I look at a person's statements. Usually there is a ring of truth in there.
(Think of Casey A saying 'I know she's close.' And she certainly was.)