Hello everyone, first post - I was a user years ago under a different name, but lost my details so am reinventing myself.
There seem to be a lot of things which don't add up in Gaia's disappearance and now it seems her death. But most of all I find the relatives' position and interviews the most interesting and telling of all. They are definitely covering something up:
1. Her mother's rather bizarre audio statement, "it's just a matter of time before we find you sweetheart" - a very odd mixture of pleading, reassurance and threats. I didn't understand her words at all
2. The strange interview with RD - talks a lot about how it all affected HER- really if someone you love had gone missing from your house, why would you be babbling on about your own state of health; and why didn't you ring up police or a doctor immediately
3. GE's very bolshy defence of NE - trying to smear the police well before any of the three people were released. He said, if I remember " people will laugh if they know what really happened" or WTTE. Well, if you know, why haven't you told anybody.
I think there has been a lot of conflict and trouble in Gaia's family - she didn't seem to trust them very much if she bolted from the aunt's car at the first opportunity. We haven't heard the truth of it by any means. It felt to me as she had absolutely nowhere to go and was desperate to be heard and believed, but couldn't make any headway with her family. I've had teenagers so I do understand that she may not have helped herself in this situation, and yelling and screaming is part of the business of raising a teenage girl, especially if she has some bad health and mental issues, but she seemed genuinely terrified of this person who allegedly assaulted her, and was afraid he was coming for her. She should have been able to feel her family would protect her, but it sounds as though she was seen as 'over emotional and hysterical' - "it's just Gaia doing her thing again" kind of stuff. Her mother sounded an over-controller to me.
I think this is something which went tragically out of control very quickly, and the family and the E family are covering up. I would be interested to know in what condition her body was found. Was she just lying there, or did it appear she had been placed there for example.
Hope the police can get to the bottom of it soon, it's a nightmare for everyone involved.