Thanks fragile~ you expressed my frustrations a lot better than I did!
Crimney if Websleuths eats one of my posts I'm going to scream!
Boyz_Mum, I love your thoughts and your posts on a variety of cases and topics....and again your thoughts are so true.
My many thoughts on this case are hard to put into words but I'm going to try and make a short post.
We all know that FDF is a liar, manipulator, cunning, nuts, disgusting. My thoughts are though, that when he tells the truth, people don't realize it. I do suspect that if Christina is not Sharon, then he very well may be telling the truth about how he acquired Sharon. What his sister said about what happened to Michael--I believe he was telling the truth. Anything he's said afterwards is a lie IMO.
If the prostiute scenario is correct, then it's very likely that Sharon will not be on the Doe Network, especially if her mother was murdered not long afterward. I think it's very possible that her mother would have been estranged from her family and that her family may not even know that Sharon existed. From there...two possibilities---to look at missing women in the areas that FDF was known to frequent and see if they could resemble Sharon and if their circumstances could lend to her meeting up with FDF. Unfortunately the other possibility is that she was such a black sheep that she was never reported missing, and that the attitude is of "it's in the past, water under the bridge, if she's alive she can contact us if she wants to."
This is why I would love to see a media blitz, since the media loves sordid stories. This case isn't really well-known outside of true-crime lovers. If she could get a lot of national press, I wonder if it's possible that someone could see it and think they resemble a long lost sister/daughter/cousin.
It's just my opinion that for so long the focus has been on trying to find children missing who resemble sharon and whose circumstances merit further research. If Christina is not Sharon, then I think the next step is to try to find her mother. It would mean a lot of work (I'd have no problem volunteering to take sections and scour the doe network). If a possible match was found...one would like to hope we could get some DNA to match what's there. I make it sound simple but I know it's not.