I'm gonna try.
1st week: AJ is home on spring break, seen on Monday morning, March 2 at 7 am. By the next day, her mother, JH, receives a text that she's not ready to come home. She thinks it seems unlike her. She doesn't seem overly worried. AJ's debit card is found on separate days in pieces up the street.
End of first week into second: WH, the adoptive step-father, begins taking over the media appearances and telling more and more stories. Read interview transcript.
Ever since then, stories have been coming out here and there, and absolutely nothing is being verified by LE.
We know he is a felon with previous charges for kidnapping, felonious restraint, burglary, etc. Read this document on his record.
End of last week some clothes were found by WH after he "received a tip" in Chesapeake. Police spent several days combing the area. No confirmation from LE that these are AJ's.
WH got arrested at the same time for B&E, obstruction, and resisting arrest for activity occurring on March 6. The warrant is floating around somewhere. He was found with 72 rounds of 9mm ammo in his hotel room, which confirmed our speculation that he and AJ's mother have actually been separated.
Watch his jailhouse interview or read the transcript.
Because AJ had another name on her FB profile, we discovered she had another stepfather. He raised AJ from toddlerhood to early teens, and is the only family member acting like a grieving parent. He is our verified insider, Zach. He blogs at
http://riverraging.blogspot.com/. He has been the target of JH's wrath for hanging his own fliers with more complete information about AJ's appearance and offering his own reward. They share two younger daughters.
That synopsis really doesn't capture the weirdness, back and forth, double- triple-speak stories and everything else going on. There is a small circle of friends, some vocal on SM relatives (and not in a good way), a lot of backlash from the family for anything that doesn't toe their party line. Basically just hang our fliers and leave us alone.
