The thing is yeah she is missing BUT there are a ton of suspicious circumstances around the disappearance. I remember this case from the news and instantly assumed that 1) the husband 2) the b/f or 3) both the husband or b/f or 4) another b/f was somehow involved. Its not hard to see how this woman was in some shady relationships and someone could have killed her.
With Holly we do not have any of that.
It is somewhat hard to find a missing person that quite compares to Holly. In many cases the victim seems to have been 1) drunk and wandering around at night 2) weren't out partying with shady friends, drunk or on drugs 3) were trying to end an abusive marriage with a violent husband, kids etc. 4) were involved in some sort of dangerous or illegal activity like drug dealing 5) had psychological issues 6) were killed by a known offender and recovered fairly quickly 7) were killed by someone who even if not charged was named a POI or suspect or at least who the family said was involved.
The last paragraph of your post caught my attention. It is easy to dismiss background in HB case because there is no background provided. If we take the little we do know, how many of the seven points you provided can we dismiss?
1- HB was abducted at her home in the morning, can toss this one out.
2- She may not have been partying when she disappeared, but we do not know about HB close friendships and relationships, we really have no idea what kind of crazy may have been circling around her life. I do know there were MANY meth labs busted in the search for HB and also 17 registered SO living in the tiny town of parsons (population 2k*) when she went missing. Yikes!
3- HB was not married so would have to change husband to boyfriend. We also have no background on their relationship, but there does not seem to be a history or pattern of abuse between them. There is nothing to rule this angle out except for KB always defending CB and DS and some tv anchors stating that CB and DS have been cleared (TBI retracted their similar statement to nobody has been cleared).
4- HB doesn't seem like somebody who was involved with drugs herself, but we do not know much about the other people that were close to her. There has been speculation that people she was associated with may have been involved in drugs. I do not see anything to rule this angle out, innocent people get caught up in these situations without realizing the potential danger. Happens every day.
5- There is no known history of mental illness with HB, but again we have very little background to go on with this angle. The better question would be does anybody that was close to HB have a history of mental illness.
6- HB is still missing and her case is being "actively investigated", so there is no conclusion to draw from on this.
7- This angle takes time to play out. This is certainly something that happens quite often but in this case everything is so hush-hush that many people just assume there are no POI because nobody has been named. I can safely say to you that there are POI in this case, one even outed himself on several websites to defend himself (IMO his ramblings are at the very least borderline sociopath.) (Please do not ask for any clarification on this, you should be able to find this info very quickly if you check active sites that discuss this case.)
So we could rule out numbers 1, 5 and 6. IMO everything else is still up in the air so to speak, not much to rule it in or out. I still find it very concerning that we are quickly approaching a year since HB went missing and the story is still as confusing, if not more so, than the day she was abducted. Very sad.
