msphilosopher
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Good point that the school should have notified mom when she didn't show up.
From the presser, I find it interesting that A. was reported missing as a runaway but Esterly was reported as "missing, endangered" by a family member (and police would not name the family member at the presser). It should have been immediately obvious they might be together but I think neither family expected this, despite all the red flags. When A. was missing the first reaction was to think she ran away. When Esterly was missing they think he is endangered-- did they think he might be suicidal? What communications did he leave his family that might hint he was in danger?
Honestly, it could be that when they discovered him missing that the first reaction was that something nefarious happened to him. The family could have easily still been in denial about the allegations and recent developments involving A. . Or they weren't in denial about A., but still holding him to a golden standard of "he would never leave his children, so something nefarious happened".
OR it could have been KE's mother, or sibling and thought that SE or someone in SE's family hurt him due to the turmoil over A..
Who knows! We don't know the depth of what each side of the family SE vs. KE knew about A., the police interventions, etc.