I just read all of the first thread and caught up on this one, and since the beginning when I saw that video of Prisma near the garage, swaying and confused, and read that she did not return to work after lunch, I was worried that intoxication played a role here and that regardless of how she got in that state, she is not at all safe. I don't usually bring in my own personal experiences to develop theories about what happened to someone, but as a recovering alcoholic so many things about Prisma's journey and actions that day just resonate with me as someone in the midst of a serious crisis of mental/alcohol-induced breakdown, and that was before the article that detailed those missing hours where Prisma stayed at the bar drinking and her interactions with various people. I've been there, and it's only through the Grace of God and other human beings that I didn't end up missing, killing someone while driving in that state, or having a tragic accident somewhere.
The first red flag was her not returning to work after lunch and not contacting them at all. First an altercation at work - why? Was she already drinking? Irritable? Enough to say screw it, and start drinking? I used to do this when I decided to drink my lunch, consequences be damned. Then the getting cut off by the bartender, and then a one-hour call with the babysitter. Sometimes it takes awhile for all the alcohol to kick in so she could have sounded half normal. Alternately, her babysitter's reluctance to speak with LE could be trying to protect her or herself - not to get her in trouble. I find it hard to believe that on a one-hour call there weren't indications that all wasn't well. She could have been venting about her job, and her ex, etc. I think it's likely that that call was made from the bar where she was drinking.
Then the road rage incident. If she was intoxicated enough to get cutoff from drinking (trust me when I say you have to be pretty far gone for that to happen), then she likely was behaving erratically and illogically. When people ask how could she drive if she was that drunk? Well, people do. I'm not proud but have driven on highways in a complete blackout with no recollection of how I got there. My theory is she was already super wound up, drunk, and decided to drive to her ex's place on autopilot to either finish an argument or something and then kind of sobered up a little by the 6pm call to realize she didn't know where she was, what she doing there, etc. hence the call. I do think maybe by that point her ex wasn't there, not answering her calls - I know if someone was drunk-dialing me over and over and told me they were coming I would get out of dodge. The sighting of her sitting on the top floor of the garage crying also takes me back to that day in a parking lot where for the first time I didn't know where I was, why I was there, but knowing I desperately needed help.
As far as what happened to her after the call or the sighting, I am open to pretty much any and all of these possibilities:
1. That the ex found her or she found him and he made her disappear (less likely now that we know more about the afternoon) - I think it's less likely he slipped her something to get her in trouble, etc;
2. That she met with foul play at someone else's hands - random in the apartment or if she left the building, others said this is a bad area, someone could have recognized her state of intoxication and decided to take advantage of her;
3. That she met with an accident due to her state of confusion either in the apartment building or nearby construction areas and just has not been found
4. Or that she self-harmed and just hasn't been found (also less likely for some reason)
I have no idea if this was a one-time thing of if Prisma had a real drinking problem - but even if she did, many of those around probably had NO idea. Her family doesn't live close by so wouldn't really know on a day-t0-day basis. Women especially are great double-life leaders and secret drinkers - keeping it all together, so many responsibilities, a son, etc., holding it down when on the inside when you're falling apart. Clearly she had a LOT going on. No judgement but perhaps she was in a downward spiral - someone who voluntarily chooses to get back with an ex with domestic violence against you is not necessarily in the best place.
The thing that makes me maddest/saddest: I honestly am appalled that no one, not the bartender, not LE that she interacted with, not other witnesses and other people recognized the state that Prisma was in and had her incarcerated for public intoxication for her own safety or called EMTs. That top floor garage witness may have, but Prisma sent her away (if true). That is the only thing that kept me safe, that when I was in a similar state, wandering around a parking lot lost, crying, and seconds away about to drive off but I couldn't find my keys, a van driver called the police on me who said he couldn't in good conscience leave me alone in that state. That was what got me on the road to recovery.
Again, sorry to project so much personally onto this case, but I just had such a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach as I read more and more about this case.
