Looking through these statements, I find that last one odd. She's saying he couldn't have gotten out because the door had been closed all day. But, in reality, it had been opened and closed several times - at least with the people that had come in and out. Even she admitted there was the "family friend" who had gone in and out several times, that's not including the others. Technically, the door hadn't been closed all day.
Odd quotes. I agree, I thought that was odd too. I mean, if they were in New England, I'd assume they'd gone in another door. But that doesn't seem to be the practice there. Although maybe another door was closer to where the cars were parked?
Another comment she made that struck me as odd from that same transcript was "They have the cadaver dogs. He`s nowhere in this area, I don`t believe, because there`s no trace of him coming in the yard."
Would you use the word "cadaver" if your child was missing? I know that's how a lot of people refer to them, but a few others I've asked when discussing this case agreed that they would use any other word BUT that one--that they couldn't bring themselves to even express something so morbid.
The dad's statement. I have also wondered about how the mom never seems to refer to the dad's statement about the beanie pulling--always says some version of she went into the bedroom with the grandparents and came out into the living room and "no one had seen him."
The only way this makes sense I can think of is perhaps dad wasn't inside the house--or at least, not in the living room--when she ran out into the living room. So at that point in her recollection, no one else
had seen him and it was after that she talked to the dad.
But it makes me think that there was still a gap of time between her going out in the LR and her hearing that from the dad, so where was he?
Not to imply he was doing anything hinky. But if he'd gone out to smoke or something then the door would have been opened or maybe there's a chance someone had been left alone with Joshua while dad went to the restroom.
The jumping up. There's definitely something she didn't like about the friend IMO given how quickly she alluded to him. Could that be why she "jumped up" when she hadn't seen him in 10 minutes? Because at 8 months pregnant, jumping up wouldn't be as easy as it normally was, so it's hard to believe she wouldn't have tried to call out for him first.
I don't know the square footage of their home but it sounds about the size of the little rambler I grew up in and we could hear mom calling out for us no matter where we were--TV on and all.
And if some reason we'd ignore her, the nearest adult would tell us to go see mom or yell back that we were with them.
His clothes. And as for him being overdressed, if they were trying to keep the doors closed, it's possible they had the heat turned down to keep all the adults (or, perhaps, one whining adult) happy. So that wouldn't surprise me.
Plus, my sister always has my niece and nephew decked out for company like that. And they don't change into PJ's unless they've gotten a bath or until right before they go to bed.
Timing. Which brings me to another question (sorry, my first posting and all these thoughts piled up while I was waiting to get approved!)...no one seems to be sure about the time they last saw him.
As someone pointed out, they may not necessarily think to look at the clock when they see him. But it seems to me from watching parents with kids that young that they
are kind of watching the clock as it's getting near their child's bedtime.
Especially if he does something to annoy them, like it sounds like he might have done with his dad and the beanie. Anyone else think that's odd?
Assuming he was taken. Now, I don't have kids (except furry ones, LOL) but one thing people keep saying over and over is that maybe she was convinced someone took the boy because it's easier to believe he was being taken care of that way.
Really? I would think, at least when it first happened, that it would be less frightening to think he might have wandered out--given that abductions often end so badly.
Now, I can maybe see being hopeful of that given the time that's passed and the weather down there. But right away?
Yeah, I'm not sure what else you would call a cadaver dog, other than that. Just calling them dogs would be misleading.
