In my opinion, this new update from the FBI certainly blew the wind out of the sails of the recent, more positive update from the Bridgeton Chief of Police. Remember the Chief shared that they had a hot tip in Feb. but covid has temporarily stalled the investigation? This FBI update is so lame in spots that I'm seriously wondering if they are trying to do some kind of damage control--eg so that a POI won't think they are investigating him. I hope so.
FBI lame statements:
-If you are looking for a child to take the child, you go where children are,” said FBI special agent Daniel Garrabrant. “
(ok, so he sharing his expertise that people who are looking for a child go to where children are..because we never even thought of that?)
-“That’s one of the reasons that we believe that the target was a child, but it may not necessarily have been Dulce."
(Since it was a child who was actually abducted, I kinda believed also that a child was the target. Of course it could have been a random abduction).
-We’ve had cases like this across the country where offenders go to places where children are and they would have access to children and they wait for the opportunity.
(A brand new tidbit of information?).
FBI Statement re Dulce being alive:
-Nothing has been discovered to suggest otherwise, Garrabrant said. No physical remains have been found and searchers have combed the immediate area around the park. A hunting season has come and gone and nothing has been discovered in fields and woodlands surrounding Bridgeton, he added. "I’m working under the premise and the assumption that she’s still alive.”
(They believe Dulce was taken in a car. They know that she could have been taken away from Bridgeton and the surrounding area. Not finding her body in the area is not a reason to work this case as though she is alive. This seems like an artificial statement to me.)
FBI statement re motive for abduction:
-Investigators have found no evidence of a custody dispute between Dulce’s parents, Garrabrant said. The father has been interviewed by investigators and has also been cooperative, he said.
(Keep in mind that he states that no family member has been cleared. He cites that phone records expose correspondence re a planned family abduction. Obviously there was no evidence of that. Also the risk of a day time abduction from a public park seems unlikely. No mention of burner phones, or the lack of cooperation from Mexico in returning abducted children back to the USA, or the fact that, despite the risk, a daytime abduction of Dulce was successful. Just a few thoughts I had.)
-Really young kids, even infants, may be taken by someone looking to replace a child who was somehow lost, Garrabrant said, while a sexual motive is often a factor in cases involving abducted teens."
( I would like to see the statistics on how they have determined that young kids who are missing are taken to replace a child, versus taken by a sexual pervert. And if they remain missing, how do they know the motive? This statement certainly surprised me.)
Missing Bridgeton girl Dulce Alavez likely abducted in crime of opportunity, FBI agent says