The chief found out on Facebook that Harley’s mom had posted about her concern
WTH???????????? Why weren't the police called directly like all the times before? Why did the Chief have to find out on SM? Why did mom say she didn't see him,she talked to him,and there's a difference? What difference? Why can't she talk about it????????? When exactly did his phone get broken,or taken away? What was happening when it got broken,or taken away?
Is that news source (in the post you responded to) considered a MSM source? It does not appear to be correct about some things.
For example, that source reports as 24 the number of hours that Harley was missing before a parent posted on Facebook that he was missing. But, he was actually missing nearly 42 hours if you count from the time the mother claimed that she interacted, but did not see him on Dec 20.
As far as we know the claim that HD left the house for school the morning of Dec 20 was corroborated ONLY by the supposed video surveillance photo from a neighbor - a photo or still which seems to me unreliable as it is grainy and reveals no discernible details such as hair or clothing color, eyeglasses or not, facial hair or not; it is reliable only as a "possibly like" silhouette in a location proximate to where HD might be expected to be if the mother's claim of interaction that morning is true.
That image most certainly wouldn't put any of us to rest that we need no longer worry about HD if it were presented to us today as evidence of his living presence taken as video this morning, would it?
So, no missing child report for 42 hours AFTER Harley supposedly claimed to be feeling too ill to attend school and was asked to leave anyway with NO PHONE on his person to raise alarms if an emergency arose. No missing child report for approximately 40 hours after the school attempted to make contact with a parent but reaches a full voicemail on that parent's cellphone instead (presumably leaving a "missed call" notification). If Harley had an attack of appendicitis on the way to school that morning, he'd have been on his own to deal with it.
The number of hours missing before a parent posted on Facebook that he was missing increases to nearly 54 hours if the last reliable sighting of him was based on the personal witness of the friend's father as HD left their house the evening before.