SuziQ
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If I were writing fiction based on this case, here's how I'd structure the elements, to simplify matters: a family decides to disappear. Completely. They have their reasons - family matters, perhaps, or threats which have been made against them.
To facilitate the disappearance, a member of the family pays x amount of dollars to officials, stipulating said payment purchases the following: that false information be given about the discovery of, and the contents of, their abandoned vehicle, e.g., that a large amount of money, a purse, a cell phone, and a family pet were found in the vehicle - when, in fact, one (or more) of these things was not found there at all.
By doing so, the family creates for themselves layers of protection: a vehicle offically undiscovered for more than a week, allowing for plenty of getaway time; a report of a significant amount of money in the vehicle - who would ever walk away from THAT kind of money? people would ask; and, further to befuddle onlookers, a dog discovered inside - thus causing all animal-lovers immediately to surmise that no one would ever voluntarily leave a beloved family pet behind.
I'm not saying AT ALL that this is what took place. What I am saying is, this would be a much more simple explanation than the ones currently on the table - Occam's Razor simple, in fact - for the mysterious vanishing: the family simply wanted to disappear, to leave it all behind; an amount of money changes hands and - hey presto, they have gone.
BBM. Too complicated to be an Occam's Razor.