josh123
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I have not witnessed statements by members which could be classified as offensive/somewhat offensive allegations toward the searchers. Granted, I'm not on here 24/7 and the mods do an excellent job of keeping things high and tight, so it is possible that I have missed something along the way.
Allegations and offensive are powerful terms. I've been re-reading trying to locate posts that could fall under that category or be perceived as falling under that category, and I have yet to find something to support that claim. The only things I've seen here are speculating, hypothesizing, theorizing, and trying to construct possibilities with incredibly limited information.
Speaking of searchers, though, and the idea (because we can't say for certain) that the final person believed to have seen Christina has not participated in search efforts, it has been said along the way that perhaps LE requested that he not participate. This seems like a logical notion if a statistically significant number of cases indicate that the last person to see the victim was involved in the demise. It would become much harder to eliminate him as a suspect if his footprints were now all over hill and dale, and if he were to actually find something--whether or not he was involved in her demise-- it could be really problematic on the legal side of things. J Block's fruit of the poisonous tree post did a great job of representing a scenario where evidence could be excluded, and many more possibilities along those lines exist.
Even assigning him a volunteer "desk job" rather than fieldwork could be yield problems if emotions ran high. There might be confrontations and questioning and accusations which could detract from the ultimate goal of finding Christina.
There's so much we don't know. IMO, our purpose or role here in this forum (as opposed to social media, mainstream media, or direct fieldwork in searching) is to be a think-tank. A crowd-source powered possibility-generator of what may have happened, based on the facts we have, combined with our collective experience in previous cases and our personal experience from our own paths in life.
IMO, our goal is to generate ideas. Not pass judgement, not make allegations, not convince others of what to believe. As we continue to brainstorm, I hope we'll continue to do so in a way that is focused, productive, and ultimately leads to locating Christina and anyone who has contributed to her sad situation.
Yes, they were deleted