Finally caught up... You guys are good so bravo for all your hard work.
Here is my THEORY of what happened:
I seriously think she left with someone on her own free will. I think she had this plan for awhile. I kind of get her, being a 26 year old female and we are kind of similar. I think she knew her boyfriend was a minimum wager (He's a skateboarder/modelISH, she went to college) Please correct me if I'm wrong, I just don't see him as being a real "hard worker" as opposed to her who it looks like she works her butt off. I see her being caught in a position of not wanting to move home (No matter how amazing your parents are no one wants to move back in to their parents home in their 20s) and not having enough funds to leave HF.
I know you are all going to come down on the how could she leave her dog?? Maybe she didn't like the dog, do we know if she bought the dog with HF, or if it was her dog? I dislike animals a lot, my boyfriend loves them, if he insisted on getting one we would, but if we broke up that is HIS dog not mine. Maybe that is how she felt.
She had the opportunity to meet men (probably wealthy) at her job, I use to work in an upscale club doing bottle service, there were a couple times I seriously considered giving it all up and marrying the rich old dude who asked. I later decided staying in college and graduating was more fulfilling but shucks if I don't think about it every once and a while.
I probably think this because I so want this beautiful fun loving girl to be okay.
Also I noticed a few people talking about they wouldn't stay at someone's house overnight if they had to work the next day, do we know for a fact what time she worked. She works as a photographer at a dating service, I think it's silly to think she would be going in before 11am. It's not like people wake up at 6:30am on a Saturday to get their picture taken for their dating profile. I always assumed she worked late, but it seems to be a consensus that she was going to have to be their early?