Acorunadepor
''There is fire where you are going."
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The photo is a mystery just like the planted cell phone. There is no known hard evidence of the photo that is known publicly; just he said/she said. I personally lean more toward the photo did exist. Therefore I agree that the photo was most likely taken with a personal cell phone and possibly texted to other phones (which increases the possibility that the photo still exists in metadata some place). If I am going to believe that the photo existed, then I must have some reasonable logical answer regarding WHY somebody would take that photo? Maybe to communicate with another party that "ok, he is now alone"? I can't think of any other logical reason. Tom was with others throughout the evening with no known confrontations, then suddenly disappears minutes after he is alone. I actually don't think that the Sheriff or other LE took the photo; most likely a young person closer to Tom's age. If the photo actually did exist, the Sheriff quite possibly could have came into possession of the photo by some other means.
I find it strange that the photo has not been mentioned in any of the recent interviews or in the detailed Texas monthly articles and podcasts. I'm not sure what to make of that.
The photo was mentioned by his mother on the Unfound podcast (episode 95). At least that's how I heard from it.
She said the Sheriff showed her the photo, and said to her it was a still taken from a camera. She immediately doubted this because it was a photo taken from ground level.
Who would show that to a mother and then later on argue against it?
I believe the mother because its a picture of your child moments before he disappeared. You never forget that IMO.