This thread is an abomination of rumors/hearsay, bickering, no links ... all violations of Websleuths Terms of Service. This resulted in a time consuming review and thread cleanup of approximately 60 posts.
Argumentative, antagonistic, personalizing, inflammatory posts gets removed, along with all responses emanating from them.
As I type this message, there are close to 900 guests reading here, not to mention hundreds of members. They do not come to Websleuths to watch bruised egos bicker and take potshots at one another. They come to read about the victims, the facts of the case and respectful theories and opinions based on those facts. If you disagree with someone, do it with courtesy and just scroll and roll without all the snark, etc. .. or do NOT respond and use the handy Report feature to let Mods know there is a problem so we can nip things in the bud.
The only WS members allowed to state information as fact without providing a link to the source are Verified Insiders. No regular member is allowed to state information as fact without providing links to an approved source (MSM, LE, or other WS approved sources). If it is fact it needs a link. If it is only your opinion, you need to make that clear.
NO LINK, NO POST
Back door, front door, down the chimney ... doesn’t matter. If you are going to state information as fact you must provide a link, otherwise such posts are considered rumor or hearsay and such posts get removed.
NO LINK, NO POST
Also, saying to the effect “I read it somewhere” or “I’ll find it later” is not allowed. Before you make a post stating information as fact, make sure you already have the link to support the fact, and include it in your post BEFORE you make the post. Otherwise, we end up pages and pages later with all the “oh, might have been blah blah” or “so-and-so said”, and sometimes even end up with “oh, it was in the comments on such-and-such page”. If it isn’t attributed to an approved source and linked, it is not allowed.
NO LINK, NO POST !!
Baiting is not allowed, so don’t bother with the “I know stuff that I’m not gonna tell”. It’s attention seeking and immature. If you can’t link it, you can’t post it.
Screenshots without links to an approved source are not allowed.
NO LINK, NO POST !!
Oh, and we need to remind that outing other Websleuths members results in a lifetime ban from Websleuths?
This thread will reopen sometime tomorrow after members have had a chance to read the above.