I lived in Houston for 25 years. I've lived in every single part of that town that this case has found itself in. My mother still lives there and I will tell you, she has no idea this child is missing because the news isn't being heavily covered locally and the amber alert signs on EVERY SINGLE 6 plus lane freeway there haven't even been turned on. That said, I don't think we are the only ones who smell something rotten. This isn't their first rodeo, LE knows....
As someone very familiar with the area, I will add the following notes (since I don't have much else I can say right now on this thread and not violate TOS).
- Sugarland is considered an area where money lives. Upper class residents with upper class security cameras.
- The mall he presumably passed on his way to the hospital has police detail parked there every weekend. Many of them ride around the area since the mall and the parking lots are sooooo huge. ESPECIALLY on a high shopping weekend like the weekend before Mother's Day.
- MOST of this mall is considered an outdoor mall. Meaning, it's not your traditional mall, where you go in and you walk down a huge hallway and you have stores on the inside. It's more of an outlet mall, where the stores all face the street or parking lot. If it was raining, I could see no one being on the walk way. If it wasn't, it would have been very very busy on a weekend. Even if it was raining, any of those stores would have been a good safe refuge for a man with a baby in need of help.
- For you guys looking at the map and not privy to local speak, HWY 59 and HWY 69 are the same thing. When someone says 59 South, they are usually referencing the south side of 59 by Sugarland. When someone says 59 North, they are referencing the north side of 59 by Humble.
- The intersection where the car jacking allegedly took place is not as busy as any of us would like. The HIGHWAY, yes. Greens Rd, not so much. It's a back road I would drive a LOT since I lived in Greenspoint (Greens Rd and 45) and worked in Humble and wasn't about "that toll road life".
- Crime in the area where the car jacking allegedly took place is pretty high.
- Him being at that intersection doesn't make any sense. My route from Sugarland to BUSH would have been (avoiding tolls) 59 South > 610 Loop > 45 > Greens Rd > Left on JFK *OR* 59 South > 610 Loop > 59 North > Exit Will Clayton. It makes NO sense that he was either on Greens Rd that far past the airport or had turned onto Greens Rd from the highway (going under the overpass) with a flat tire or whatever was wrong with his car. The ONLY way this would make sense is if he did exit 59 North early, because something was indeed wrong with the car he was driving. However, that would put him on the feeder road of 59 and not on desolate Greens Rd. THIS DOESN'T MAKE SENSE to someone who drove this route A LOT.
I hope they find this baby, but my gut isn't hopeful.
