This is really crazy. Forgive me in advance if I've repeated things, I tried to catch up with everything.
I've been thinking about what we don't know -
1. was Linda shopping for the office, and not personally? It sounds like she'd been working that evening. I don't know how large the business is, but maybe she was picking up a few office supplies, and then realized they maybe needed coffee or something? That might explain the lack of groceries in her car.
Per the article below:
http://www.clarionledger.com/articl...ction-suspected?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Home
Surveillance tapes from Walmart show Reed leaving the store between 7 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, relatives said.
After that, co-workers said, she came back to the office and realized she still needed to pick up some groceries. She told them not to lock the workplace gate because she would be leaving to go back to Walmart not long after them.
When Reed's co-workers arrived at Moore's Fabrications Monday morning, the gate was locked from the outside, Moore said.
2. was Sunday a normal work day for her? Or was she just a dedicated employee that knew there were things to be done and wanted to start her Monday well-prepared?
3. Did she go home every weekend? If so, was she just getting back into town that evening, and spoke with her husband around 9 to let him know everything was taken care of and she was in safely, thinking she was?
4. I'm assuming there are others that work Sunday since the co-workers mentioned her asking to leave the gate open. What time does work end on Sunday evening, or is there a graveyard shift as well, or only a scattered few with no real hours working in the offices?
5. If she doesn't normally shop for work on Sundays could she have interrupted or witnessed something that she shouldn't have when she returned with the groceries - unknowingly even?
6. Do we know exactly when she went missing? Was it Sunday night or Monday morning? I can't find it - but didn't I read something about a truck backed up to her house early Monday? Financial Records? - it was right after tax time. Someone locked the gate if it wasn't Linda, and when. Do all the employees have keys?
7. Maybe she ran into someone when she (if she)went back to work who asked for a ride to a fake car-breakdown to lure her back into the area her car was found? There wouldn't be any phone records, and being a co-worker felt safe.
8. Are there other stores nearby where groceries can be bought? I know myself, I don't like to go to our local Wal-Mart late, too many robberies and shootings. Maybe she simply changed her destination, that's why there isn't any more surveillance at that particular store.
So many "what-if's"
lease: Hoping Linda is found soon
