Have we seen from LE that NO scent was found? I don't think we can make judgements based on we have NOT heard ..
The very fact the FBI has been brought in indicates to me that someone is thinking this is more than wandering off ..Also - giving the parents the benefit of the doubt - it may be that he was carried to/from the car .. as they said he's VERY mobile .. maybe they were worried about him dashing off.
As an aside - does anyone know what the big facility is on the property behind the house? It looks like a school to me .. (If I didn't have this stinkin' cold I'd drive over there .. :innocent
bolded respectfully by me.
This gives me pause too pamlet.
I don't know protocol for TX and missing children off hand but if I'm not mistaken for the FBI to be there local LE has to request their presence.
They also brought in Texas rangers.
Those two are heavy hitters.
Now it could very well be that the FBI was requested because of lack of needed resources in the local LE (and that was also the reason for the TX Rangers too) but NB is in Comal County which is very close to Bexar County and not too far from Travis County, those Counties could have been called on to assist with resources if needed. Comal isn't a small county or poor by any means IMHO.
(I lived in CenTex for nine years and although I wasn't born in TX I got there as soon as I could and I fully intend to go back to TX and live out the rest of my natural life---it is my "home").
As an aside, calling in the Rangers? hooo boy. They ain't no joke right there. I have the deepest and most profound respect for the Rangers and if this child could have been found they would have found him by now IMHO.
But as other's have said:
1. The child did not get beamed up or vaporized. He has to be somewhere.
2. He isn't still in that house because IIRC cadaver dogs were brought in earlier this week and also if he were in the house---the home is warm enough to indicate decomp.
3. I'm not concerned about no scent being found outside the house as far as old scents. I am concerned that nothing was found in any area surrounding the house but then again that does depend on many variables--weather, wind, cold, heat, etc. The wind could have simply blown his scent away if there was a wind. It's not an "aha" for me IMHO.
4. I am concerned that there were that many adults in the home and no one has any idea where this child got off to...
5. I really really want to know what forensic evidence they have that has given them leads they are running down. What did they find?
Now the bottom line on how I process info. Yes, there is a remote possibility that he was abducted by a stranger. Very very remote. Pretty much a snowball's chance in Hello in my humble opinion. Just looking at the circumstances.
It is possible that that many adults weren't paying any attention whatsoever to a 18 month old child and didn't pay any attention when the child left out the door that didn't latch---because why? Did the child turn around and shut the door behind him? JMHO.
My thoughts are that someone in that home knows what happened to this baby.
Please let me be wrong. Please let this baby be found closeby and found as soon as possible.
JMHO above. Subject to change as more info comes out.
