I have never had an interest in a missing person case before. Some reason, this one bothers me, maybe it is the mystery of it all. I wish to voice my thoughts and summarize.
The roommates are above suspicion, friends for years. The doorbell cam at 1:00 shows three guys apparently happy and sober.
I pondered if he really controlled the phone during the bridge picture, SnapChat video to sister, and the UberEats order. I guess few criminals would do all of that with someone else's phone, but it would throw off the search.
The video snippet of the dog-walk embedded in the Wich interview sure looks like broad daylight, based upon the dog's shadow. I guess if the phone enhanced the light or color, maybe artificial light? There is uncertainty about whether he walked the dog after 2 a.m., but really not relevant as he was there to return the dog to the apartment.
The father says something about a video with certainty of bare feet. Where is that video? The doorbell cam at 1:00 a.m. shows no feet. I have a hard time believing he had no footwear.
I read that a search was done of the drainage canal, and that it was only a foot deep that day. That was where the 3:03 a.m. photo of the foggy bridge was made and sent, and around the time the phone stopped. He was 250 feet outside of the gate and fenced perimeter, maybe walking or maybe waiting for UberEats driver. She arrived at 3:20 and no sign of Caleb.
There were no signs of a car-pedestrian collision or a car jumping the curb. We are told that the cell ping at 3:12 near the pain management clinic was an error. If so, then why wasn't Caleb around the apartment at 3:20 a.m.? Of course, it wouldn't make sense for his phone to be off during the 9-minute interlude. I fear the police are strategically concealing something at that location for investigative purposes.
I feel certain he had an encounter outside that perimeter fence, between 2:58 and 3:20. Maybe a nefarious passerby or if someone arrived that he mistakenly thought was the UberEats driver. There was an Uber case in Florida of similar fate. Maybe it is the Ockham's Razor principle that we should focus on the simplest, easiest, and most logical cause. But then, the type of criminal out at 3 a.m. does not normally kidnap grown men.
By now, the cops would have done cell phone tracking and geofencing, so they should know if any other phones were around the canal, or between the canal and the pain management clinic, bewteen 2:58 and 3:12 a.m. So, we are all behind the learning curve here.