Watched this today. Nice overview of Katelin's case and some interesting conclusions.
Thoughts?
My thoughts...
First, there's no mention of the sa by the ex stepfather. IIRC, that was an issue.
The suitcase in the ditch, it didn't need to be a second person to throw it out of a moving vehicle. It didn't even have to be a moving vehicle either. BUT, someone could have thrown it out the driver's door, by pulling into the wrong lane of traffic, tossing it, and then right back into the correct lane. Could have thrown it onto the road and a passerby saw it, moved it to the ditch thinking it fell off a truck, or a luggage rack on a vehicle. It could have fallen off a truck or luggage rack!
I don't think Katelin ditched the suitcase. For one, even if she wanted to disappear, there's no logical reason to ditch the suitcase. She would still have her clothing, and other items that needed 'something' to carry them in. Sure she could have used a smaller carry bag, or tote, or gym bag, however, why worry about using something else when you already have something perfectly capable of doing the job? Second, 'IF' she was meeting someone else, from a dating app, from another secret app, she still needed her few belongings, wallet and money. Yet her wallet was among the things found in the suitcase. So now, no identification, no money....if she was leaving to start new some place, she would need her identification. Yeah she could have gotten fake, but again, WHY? She didn't need to! She didn't do anything illegal to be hiding! There's no law that says she can't start new somewhere else, and still use her identity. Things would be much easier to use her identification.
Lastly, if Katelin were still alive, she could contact ANY police dept in the USA, say she's been reported missing but that she isn't, and that she doesn't want contact with family and police would not tell where she is. They would remove the case, let her family know she's alive, and voluntarily starting over, and if she wanted to contact the family she could, but the case is closed, and it's up to Katelin to do what she wants. That's all that could happen! There's nothing illegal that Katelin has done. So nothing she can be charged for, nothing she can be arrested for. She's free to live her life. If Katelin were as close to her ex stepfather, as this video would have you think, she wouldn't want that cloud hanging over him that he could be guilty of something. She would want it known that he didn't harm her. Yet, she hasn't done that. If the ex stepfather wanted to clear the suspicion, likewise he could show his phone that Katelin had confided in him that she wanted to disappear so he helped her do so. Again, nothing illegal about that. He could calm the fears of her family, his family and LE with proof that Katelin was talking to someone else and left with that person. Or, if he thought she had left with someone else, yet hasn't been heard from in 3 yrs, and he really cared for and loved Katelin, then why hasn't he come forward with any information of her meeting someone else and putting that suspicion on that person? And why hasn't he given LE that information for them to see if Katelin is alive and living with this other person and is OK?
Because IMO, the ex stepfather knows there's nothing he can say that will help him or Katelin at this point. He knows there's nothing to ease the suspicion from him. But that's just my thoughts on it. Maybe his loyalty to Katelin is strong enough that he would rather live under suspicion, and possibly charges and still keep protecting Katelin. I don't know.
