I'm going to assume LE have already confirmed who this 7am call was supposed to have been with. I'm also going to assume LE have spoken to the people that were supposed to either be in on that call, or know if the call had previously been rescheduled.
Certainly those are all rational assumptions. I haven’t seen them confirmed in MSM. One could speculate that LE upgraded the case to “endangered” upon confirmation of the call having occurred as scheduled (and other info).
Going back to the OP's original question,
"Why do we think he had a 7am work call that morning?"
the 7am call was mentioned in the very first MSM posted here.
Regardless of where the info came from, LE was made aware of it from the beginning.
The complete quote is:
Why do we think he had a 7am work call that morning? Did he tell someone? Was it noted on a calendar or to do list?
In my experience, work calls get rescheduled or cancelled. It’s possible that there was no work call that AW needed to get back for by 7am.
I still have no solid theories but I’m trying to review some items that are taken as certainties.
I interpreted the bolded questions, perhaps incorrectly, as inquiring who brought that information forward to MSM and LE — not whether LE was made aware of the call. Clearly, LE was aware of the scheduled call from the time the missing persons report was made. Since the call has been reported in MSM and is essential to the timeline the morning of Alan’s disappearance, confirming the source of the call information — as reported by MSM — seems reasonable (long-winded explanation below).
As the original poster goes on to speculate, based on her experience (which is similar to mine) calls are frequently rescheduled, sometimes shortly before the call is scheduled to occur. If that were the case here, it’s possible that Alan received a phone schedule notification — perhaps while at the gas station, causing him to pay close attention to his phone, as we see him do on the released video — but neither his husband nor his houseguest would receive that notification. IMO, I adhere to the work schedule on my phone (or laptop) and get both schedule requests and schedule changes via phone notifications. I suspect that someone as meticulous about work as Alan is reported to be would also receive mobile notifications about business-related meetings. MOO.
The reason this matters is that it may have created a situation wherein Alan knows he is no longer required to be at his home office well in advance of the 7 am call, since it was rescheduled / cancelled/ postponed. Thus, he may choose to accomplish an additional errand or add a stop that he had not planned to do/make that morning, but now has time to do since the call time has been changed. However, his husband might not be aware that Alan’s schedule has changed, since Rusty would not receive a mobile notification, and thus expects Alan home promptly:
Search for missing Dallas businessman upgraded to ‘Endangered Missing Person’
“NBC News” said:
Rusty told
KXAS-TV that Alan had a work call at 7 a.m., so when he didn’t return home for it, Rusty began to panic.
“I got home at 6:15. He wasn’t home, so I didn’t think much about it; 6:30 rolls around, I start to get a little worried; 6:45 rolls around, and I start to get a little panicky because I knew he had a 7 o’clock conference call that he had to be home for,” Rusty explained. “When he wasn’t here at 7, I started to go look.”
According to this article and other MSM reports, Rusty then tries to retrace Alan’s likely path to the gym and back to locate him, to no avail.
If something like this scenario occurred, something still happened and Alan is still missing. But whatever happened may have happened somewhere other than the short trip between the gas station and Alan’s home, and it may have happened later than the short timeframe we currently have.
This is SPECULATION ONLY, but it would fit with what has been reported in MSM. It also means that the schedule information that Rusty has been quoted about in MSM and, as far as we know, told LE, is accurate and precise — as far as HE knew.
A question would be “why didn’t Alan convey the schedule change to Rusty?” Maybe he was planning to do so, then whatever happened, happened.
Since I speculated earlier that LE may have upgraded Alan’s case to “endangered” once the call was confirmed (along with other information), I should also note that the same could have occurred if LE confirmed the call had been rescheduled (along with other information). The fact is, LE hasn’t released a detailed explanation as to why they changed the status, and I don’t expect them to do so for an active investigation.
JMO.
