BBM: Seriously? I care. I want to know this woman's ID and her family needs to know too.
I care.
My thought process, last night at 2am when I saw it wasn't Debbie went something like this.
My first thought was my own family member(s). One of them will be on here someday, I guarantee it.
My second thought was Susan Powell...no she's been missing too long.
Then Stephanie Baxley if she hasn't been found yet but she is 53.
Then there was several other that I thought of but they were different ages, or hair colors, or races.
Wondered if they were sure that it was a woman,
if the body was burned... maybe Steven Koecher?
Should I be looking at the 40 and 50 year old women? Or the 16 year old girls? What is the age of the body?
What color hair are we talking about?
What races are we looking at?
I have no idea how closely this body matched Debbie's. I have NO starting point other than a
woman. How am I supposed to even narrow this down?
It almost HAS to be someone who had been reported missing, they identified her in less than 48 hours, that is FAST. The hikers said it appeared to have been burned, maybe that was just normal decomposition or else minimal burning.
I wonder if they could get prints? They could have used prints to run through the system and the person had a record.
Without prints they had to have a missing person's report to compare dental records to, or some form of ID on the body to give them a person to get dental records of.
I am guessing it was a very recent missing person in that area and/or one that we didn't hear about. They probably had Debbie's dental records along with a few other missing women and one of them matched. Or they ran the prints and got a hit that way.
If they find a body with no record and no missing person's report there is no way to ID it.
I care.
Which is why I spent two hours going through missing people and that extensive thought process... before coming to the obvious conclusion that POLICE know who this body is. So they will release the identity at some point. So there is no point in ME trying to figure out who it is when
they already know.
There was no point to me spending
more time at 4am when I am STILL awake and my children have been in bed since 9pm... trying to figure out who this
already identified woman is. If someone else has time, that is wonderful. I needed to get to bed.
What Annie said...
Ransom, I think she just meant that they will likely release the ID of the woman as soon as relatives have been notified- so we will probably know who she is soon and we don't have much information to go on, so we don't really need to sleuth her ID... I don't think she meant that her identity isn't important....
JMO
This is such a horrible time for anyone to lose a loved-one... I feel a tremendous heaviness in my heart for these families...