This is long, but this is how I do things. I've been reading here for days, when I have the time. I don't post a single line (other than my "thanks") until I get to the end. I've read every post, every link, and patiently waited until today when I finally got to the last post in the last thread. I'd appreciate it if you don't glaze past my post because of its length. It is days in the making. Thank you.
I live about 60 miles from Saginaw, definitely in another DFW suburb.
She looks like a redhead to me. I'm an amateur photographer, and the photos in which it looks brunette have terrible lighting. Moo.
My husband has only ever driven a pickup truck. We both have a passing knowledge of physics, him more so than I. Experience with carrying loads in the truck, and education in physics have lead us both to conclude no way in hell Sweet Alanna's body fell out by accident. Not possible.
You beat me to it! No surprise since I took my time getting to the end of the Alanna threads before posting. (I hate re-reading the same posts & questions over and over again by folks who haven't followed the whole thread, makes me crazy, so I do what I can not to contribute)
This is a fascinating bit of weirdness. I don't know why Daubin was pursued as a criminal case rather than civil, I don't know why his theories were so quickly dismissed, and I have faith in our justice system that he wasn't framed for the offense (child molestation) for which he's serving time. All that said, I'm with you: I wish we could get back into those old links. They are verrrry interesting!
This has been answered by now, but: Yes, they are all suburbs.
I think this is because the child is not missing. She wasn't missing long enough to put a search out for her. The typical big widespread news stories (Kyron Horman, Lisa Irwin, April Jones, Breeann Rodriguez…
accompany searches for missing children. THAT is urgent and spreads like wildfire. It also stirs up an avalanche of LE to look for the child. It gives the news crews plenty to cover for new stories as they follow search crews and ask questions and speculate. Often then, even if a body is found, by then, the story has momentum. This story never had a chance to gain momentum because she was found before she was ever reported missing.
I agree, (Gitana, I virtually always agree with you FWIW) It's not that they don't trust the public. They don't trust the perp and they're trying to protect the investigation.
In this country you still need a search warrant for that, and judges don't issue search warrants without probable cause. You also can't go on a fishing expedition: The search warrant must explicitly say what investigators are looking for. Thank goodness.
Don't regret your decision. It happens everywhere. I've got an RSO a block away and two weeks ago the press released a video of some schmuck who was caught jacking off in my Target, and then fondled a 10 year old girl. You can't get away from it. But neither should you panic, because the odds are most kids are murdered by parents, and stranger abduction is very rare.
Help me out here. I read everything, but I'm still fuzzy on this: I believe the reports of questions about the two dark colored vans came from the public. I think neighbors who were asked the questions shared that with the media, and the media reported it. In other words, it was NOT part of an LE press conference. Right? LE hasn't publicly asked for help with those two vehicles, unless I am mistaken.
So, what about the red truck with the green splotch? Did LE specifically ask for the public to look for that? Or was that another case of witnesses sharing inside info and the media reporting it?
It's worth knowing this, because if it came from the public, that means LE has shared even less with the public than we may be assuming here. (I apologize for not being clear on this, by all means if LE asked the media for help looking for those three vehicles, set me straight!)
Absolutely. Big chasm between strong suspicions and reasonable doubt (Kyron Horman; Jon Benet)
To say what? She's not missing. They aren't pleading for her safe return. She's deceased; they have her; they've buried her. They are heart broken and greiving. What should they be saying? I would think the family is in communication with LE, so they know more about the specifics and progress in the investigation than we do. So, they aren't sitting in the dark wondering "WTF" the way we are, so what benefit would they get from talking to the media? There's nothing for which to plead.
What we don't really know here, is if Alanna truly was
abducted. I'm treading carefully, because I'm not blaming the parents. However, if hypothetically, it was one of her parents, then she was never
abducted. They are bright educated people. Perhaps they did a very thorough job of making this
look like an abduction. All hypothetical, of course, but recall how Casey Anthony searched for chloroform? We know there are some sealed records related to these parents' electronics…. We know the parents have an active internet life. We know from a mainstream media video that MM (a parent) suggested we "
Google Polyamory" Perhaps there were some very interesting, perhaps secondarily incriminating, or suggestive searches done. We don't know what the forensic analysis of their electronics found, but if she was murdered, but not abducted, that would put her soundly in the most common child homicide category, nothing rare at all. Hypothetically.
I like them too. They seem "like" me in most ways. I think we could be friends. They are clever, and their little girl has been described as smarter than average because of the questions she asked.
However, I still hope it was family. I hope that in every case, because then, there's no creepy perp out there, and I can relax about my own children.
Unless, as I said above, the family knows exactly that. Unless they understand statistically what familial murders look like. (Blankets, teddy bears, care given: Jon Benet; Camden Hughes) In the same interview I quoted above, MM said, "I know that the odds are high that it's a family member in this sort of situation." A clever familial perp would do just the opposite of a typical familial murder, if they were trying very hard not to get caught or be suspected.
As an aside: it's interesting that LE interviewed the other two parents first if MM was the last one to see her. (Perhaps he wasn't) it's also worth noting that in this same interview he will not say when he last saw her, clearly added that LE
wouldn't want him to share that. They are
CLEARLY protecting the investigation by withholding information, which is why we don't have a crisp timeline.
Maybe… unless it's like my hypothetical above. An accident that has been covered up. I know the old Jeff Ashton adage, "people don't make accidents look like a murder." But… what if you were one of a trio relationship, and you alone were responsible for the accident? Might you have a greater fear of losing the relationship with the other two? They would still have each other, even if you were gone. What if, further, the child who was killed was the
only child in the family that was yours biologically? What if you feared that the other two partners in the trio had a tighter bond, and would still have the glue of their 3 children together to hold their relationship together, while you had just lost your blood connection to the ensemble? Maybe that would be very scary and highly motivate you to protect your position in the triangle. All absolutely hypothetical, of course. I think being part of a triangle would have the potential for any one of them to always feel slightly at risk of being excluded by the other two.
But we don't really know what LE has in any of those cases. They could have quite a bit, but still not enough to try a case. Look at all the stuff they had on Josh Powell implicating him in Susan's disappearance. We didn't know any of those details until the point was moot.
Thank you for bearing with me. If you've read all that you deserve a beer, or a cookie, whichever you prefer!
