Meems
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Eileen730
There is a guy on her friends list a Guy with the initials GC from Major model agency now when Holly bobo went missing there was a guy with the same last name from Mahem Modeling agency i think its the same dude!
I don't know all the logistics behind Mayhem Modeling and without spending too much time looking into it .. If we are talking about the same Mayhem .. its not really an agency but instead a website for "models" and photographers upload their photos to "get noticed" .. (I only know this because a client of mine uploaded some of her shots that I took to it) .. Could this "GC" "friend guy" be like a "Tom" is to Myspace? Once you open an account he is automatically your "friend"?
*If there is a different Mayhem that is an actual agency then YES it would be way weird!
The above quote was posted on one of the first pages. I apologize to the moderators if the following breaks the rules. As I said above, I am new here. I almost hesitate to post this because I don't want to distract from the more likely scenarios.
Kortne apparently did some amateur modeling in 2010, the same year that she posted on her Facebook about going to CO. In the above quote, it seems that the first poster is suggesting that there may be a connection between the modeling activities of another missing person and Kortne's modeling activities, based on a "GC" person. We have no way of knowing if the GC person is relevant, but I would be interested if he is one of the two people who are no longer listed as friends.
In any case, Kornte lists a Photography person/company on her facebook page. The link still works. When you take the name of that person/company and Google it, you get a link to a website with a picture of the same person and a link to "Model Mayhem." There's nothing odd about the photographer, and no reason to believe that there's anything improper about Kortne's modeling. However, if Kortne did post pictures/adds on Model Mayhem or a similar site, it is worth exploring because this site has been mentioned in two other missing persons cases. Meems, I will accept your explanation about the site, that it's more of a freelance way of advertising yourself as a model. Nothing necessarily suspicious about that site, but sometimes the wrong people can use things like craig's list to their own improper purposes, or create a "backpage"-type site like the Village Voice used to have.
Before getting into any conspiracy theories, I think its reasonable for LE/family/family's lawyer to investigate whether Kortne had recently contacted anyone from the modeling world. There are some sketchy aspects to marketing yourself online, but it seems Model Mayhem may be the equivalent of Facebook for young women who want to give modeling a try. Almost every missing young person has a Facebook account, but it doesn't mean there's a connection. If you try hard enough, you can connect almost any two people through their friends, family, etc. The missing person case in Tennessee may be entirely unrelated to any modeling activity since I think they've already arrested some registered SO in that case.
A darker angle is what LE in CO are saying about a missing person there. Apparently this young woman vanished after being picked up to go to a modeling job, leaving behind her purse and phone. LE believes there is a trafficking operation there, and a nonprofit has helped 70 people with "Stockholm Syndrome" escape. The descriptions of that woman indicate her hair color and style may have been changed.
I don't want to sidetrack the more mainstream theories, and I wouldn't say there's more than a 1% chance that Kortne is somehow involved in a modeling-related kidnapping scenarios. However, I would explore it if I were LE. She did mention moving to CO (the same state where there is an apparent problem with predators using modeling sites and agencies to recruit women) in 2010, the same year that she did some modeling. If there was a drug debt, it's possible that she considered some riskier ways of making money to pay people back. If nothing else, anyone with young daughters should warn them against getting involved with online modeling. Seems like a bad idea to me, but then again, I don't even believe in Facebook for kids, or anyone else.
Not to make light of anything, we should also note that CO recently legalized marijuana. If I were her parents, I would send missing posters to all of the medical/recreational marijuana shops in the state.
