Hi,
I believe this has been discussed however, if anyone can recall the weeks prior to Anna's disappearance, was there anything at all unusual?
Could have been an abundance of cars up and down the road, any new carpenters hired in the neighbourhood, any odd calls or hangups? I do think whoever took Anna, knew Anna personally as her abduction was not only quick but quiet.
I understand the weeks following her disappearance was 'as usual', nothing out of the ordinary, no odd calls, no unusual things happening.
Have the Patel's been contacted at all? The people who previously owned the hotel where the G's lived?
Bank of America owned 'the property', again who were the people who ran the farm? A woman. Has she been looked at thoroughly?
Also... the numbers written on the Squibb after G. Brody passed away, have all these numbers been fully researched to our ability?
Thank you.
SideKick,
I think it is a good idea to look back at things we may have passed over previously. I know there have been suggestions we didn't follow through on because we got distracted by another possibility.
One very striking thing about the time just before Anna disappeared is this: For the first time since we had lived on the farm, the big house just south of us was recently vacant; the family and their always-on-guard dog had moved, so that the house nearest the horse barn and the road up to the hunter's cabin was empty. My volunteer day at Anna's school was Monday and Anna disappeared the next day, when I did not go to school and come home with her.
Joe and I were married three and a half months before Anna went missing, which well could have prompted some kind of action. So there was both a possible motive and a window of opportunity here (our young dog Saturn didn't really bark at strangers, but the dog of the family which had moved barked at everything.)
Regarding the Patels: There are hundreds in the Bay Area and we don't know the first name of the man who owned the hotel.
The telephone numbers, both the ones in Squibb and the ones on GW's last telephone bill, have been investigated thoroughly.
The weeks following Anna's disappearance were far from usual or normal. There were people hunting in the woods, up and down the road, near the creek every day. The telephone rang non-stop, and almost every time it rang, we would hear clicks on the party line as other people picked up and listened. When I mentioned this to the Sheriff's people and asked if they were monitoring calls, the answer was "I wouldn't be surprised". At one point, I thought I saw a car resembling the one GW had driven before he left home, drive down the road toward the bridge. This was several days later and I can not be sure it was even the same car. At the time, I thought it was possible that he had driven out to see the place she had disappeared from. I did not really suspect him at that point, but also, remember that I was really in shock in those days and my memories may not be entirely reliable.
There wasn't a woman running the farm. It was in probate and we made our rent payments to a Bank of America. After the probate was settled, the property was bought by Lindsay Mickels ( know nothing about Mickles or Mickels except that he had no response whatsoever to Anna's disappearance.) His employee may be the woman you're thinking of. I can't even remember her name. Both of them ignored the situation completely and only wanted us to vacate Joe's shop and to pay higher rent. One of our other neighbors, Stan, was the manager at the time Anna disappeared. He has been contacted fairly recently regarding the case, but couldn't really add much except to provide the names of some Purisima neighbors which I had forgotten.
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