IMO, all Alanna's toxicology tests were completed many days ago.
LE took numerous computers from the Gallaghers and checking these is taking a long time.
I think they just don't have the total picture to present yet. Something is missing for them.
If she fell out of a truck going around a turn, her body would have been slung more towards the middle of the street. Instead, Alanna's body was found very close to the curb.
I sincerely believe she was purposefully dumped there due to panic and a lack of time.
regarding her hair, I don't know what made the kid assume it was a girl. He may have seen more than the hair, like the purple underwear for example. I'd ask the same question about her purple underwear that I did about the vehicles. These are details the media has gotten from witnesses and neighbors: NOT from LE, right? LE has said hardly a thing.
ETA: I'm asking where the information about the purple underwear came from, because if it DIDN'T come from LE (Which I doubt. Why would they tell the press that?) Then it came from a witness.
Also, could she have had her nails painted or a bracelet?… I wonder what happened to her shoes.
Anyway, whatever her hair length, and whatever this teen used to assume she was female, as Gitana1 said, none of it is relevant unless someone is trying to implicate the teen who found her. FWIW, longer hair is fairly common in boys now. My 9 year old son is often mistaken for a girl, regardless of how he is dressed. Usually it's older people or people of different cultures/ethnicities (in ethnic restaurants) that assume he is a girl. He gets annoyed, but he gets why. As I said before, we live about 60 miles from Saginaw. <modsnip>
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Thank you for your concern and keeping track of my posts. I hadn't even noticed that myself.
I'll write it again here, I think the reaction was ODD.
I sure hope I;m not offending you. I get the sense that I am and I really don't mean too! My apologies! You asked a question and I answered it. I went back to look for your post so I could be sure of what I thought I saw and it was gone. I;m not tracking your posts, I;m responding to your direct question. (Since I've been sititng around in different courts all day just waiting, I have time on my hands!!).
But your post is actually still visible on the thread (quoted elsewhere) and it does seem to infer what I thought it inferred and why I responded in the manner I did (giving my opinion that it is illogical that either boy had anything to do with this).
(Color and bolded by me for emphasis).
Excellent question. I totally agree. How about you? Have YOU found a dead body?
Also as to your comments above about people coming into the ER in shock, I look forward to reading more about your first hand experiences in the ER?
I'm thinking that working in the ER gave me a front row seat. Just saying...also I did not mention any of my personal experiences in the ER as civilian standing there.
And lastly, I thank you for going back and re-reading my post so that you can comprehend what I wrote. I did NOT write that I had told someone in the ER that a stranger had died in a car accident.
Just clearing that up.
Like I said earlier, I found my grandpa and I fell to my knees and shook and sobbed. I have also been in the ER on various occasions with my various family members as well as with friends who are single moms and couldn't face it alone (sick kids). One in particular, BTW, acctually fell to her knees outside the hospital room! (They were trying to find a vein for her very sick three year old son and it was horrible. Couldn't do it forever. She kept very calm and just tried to be there for the baby but the moment it was over she ran outside and fell to her knees, crying).
In addition, I have had various calls to come quick, that someone is ill and have had to dash over to the hospital.
That's my experience.
Ironically, I just heard John Carroll on the radio as I was driving from one court to another a little while ago, talking about the moment his baby girl who, at several months old, still not walking, was diagnosed with a form of spina bifida. He said he had to grab the wall to prevent himself from falling to the ground.
But I think that people may be less likely to react that way in the hospital than they would to something totally unexpected. The context of the hospital is that bad news may come. That has nothing to do with denial. The context makes sudden shock probably a bit less likely than a situation elsewhere, when something happens suddenly and there is no time to process.
In any event, falling to one's knees is a universally recognized reaction to shock and grief, actually:
Safe but shocked: A young woman falls to her knees in the city centre of Van
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...eath-toll-rises-270-killed-1-300-injured.html
SHE wailed and wailed. And wailed. Fatima Aqhlaqi fell to her knees and let go a scream from somewhere deep beneath, showing her grief at the death of her brother-in-law Farhan Khaligy.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/screams-of-grief-for-dead-and-lost/story-e6freuy9-1226006576717
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina —
A mother in Argentina says she fell to her knees in shock after finding her baby alive in a coffin in the morgue nearly 12 hours after the girl had been declared dead.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/11/argentina-baby-alive-morgue_n_1417041.html
The image of the burned, empty building was in stark contrast to the town’s packed gymnasium where relatives of the victims gathered late on Sunday to mourn after the mortuary became overwhelmed with bodies.
One woman fell to her knees in grief at the coffin of a relative, while others waited to identify their loved ones.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/...side-the-brazil-nightclub-where-233-died?lite
The mother of a 13-month-old toddler who died allegedly at the hands of his father
fell to her knees in grief Friday morning after learning the accused killer was given a bond. Toni Brown’s tearful wails echoed in the hallway on the second floor of the Clayton County Courthouse. Relatives surrounded Brown as she struggled to make sense of Chief Magistrate Daphne Walker’s ruling to set a $165,000 bond for defendant Ryan Russell Edwards.
http://www.news-daily.com/news/2012/jun/22/man-gets-bond-babys-death/
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s2283450.htm
I frankly can't think of much that is more tragic than unexpectedly finding a dead baby in the street. People would react in various ways. Some may vomit, some panic and run, some call 911 immediately, some might fall to their knees and sob. I think the age and the expectation of a teen in such a situation may have something to do with how he might react.
I just don't find this reaction of a young teen to such a gruesome and horrific find as remotely odd or abnormal. He must have been filled with shock and grief at finding a baby girl where he expected to find trash.