Hmmm, Great points, again. Your insights always makes my brain churn out more questions, so...
*what leads you to feel the contact was made around the video store? Depending on the day we've been told several versions surrounding that evening which includes the video store. My thoughts...
I do not believe contact was made in the sense there was shared awareness of presence. But since Simpson is considered a main / busy road (Google Earth photos along the route reveal significant traffic) and the swim party group were static (in place) in the video store I would expect it more likely that a perp could zoom in and fester a plan.
Also, since the area would have been quite busy with people and vehicles it would be more likely that a perp would not stand out.
This was the first day Lindsey had been accepted back into this group due to a falling out over boys(at that age, go figure) but had recently made up(girls tend to carry grudges that aren't resolved that quickly so I'm concerned about these girls motives. Were they setting Lindsey up for further retaliation of some sort?)
I can not speak to that group of girls carrying grudges that aren't 'resolved so quickly', but it seems if there is mutual gain for girls (or for anyone) in resolving an issue then it is more likely to be resolved sooner rather than later. Apparently, something pleased both sides to agree to reconciliation.
By now, if this were a retaliation scenario I would expect someone to have cracked by now, since we are talking about kids.
I still can't grasp why all of the girls went to pick out movies when MK and Lindsey weren't spending the night. Wouldn't that have been late for a group of girls that age to be in town alone?
Perhaps LB and MK tagged along to talk with the person working the video store that evening. I believe that to be LC, whom was familair with LB as well as with many of the kids in McCleary, based on this news article quote:
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Linda Cunningham, the owner of McCleary Video on Simpson Avenue, said FBI agents have interviewed her three times about Lindsey’s visit to the store with friends an hour or so before she disappeared.
“They (investigators) talked to everybody in town,” she said. “They looked through everybody’s house at least twice.”
Cunningham said her store used to be filled with children renting DVDs and video games after school. However, “as soon as Lindsey got kidnapped, parents stopped letting their kids go around,” she said. “It’s hurting businesses, too. I don’t blame the parents.”
Cunningham added, “I feel so bad, but there are times I just want it to end. I like to think she will just come home. We just want her to come home and try to be a normal town again.”
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Lately I've read some articles that give conflicting accounts about who said what to Lindsey at KK's house. Why could something as simple as who actually told Lindsey to go home have various versions? Why would someone lie about something as simple as that? Was there a party or guests at KK's house where someone could have seen Lindsey? They would know Lindsey was going to be alone while she walked back to her house. So, although the crime took place outside the contact/decision was made during that particular interaction.
It seems complete verbiage of actual conversation held within and outside the house has not been made public but then, the given time frame of that scene is so short we might expect not much of interest was bantered about.
As for whom said what to LB, I read that as possibly each person (KK and SW) trying to alleviate blame from the other as to whom is responsible for not letting LB sleep over or for not letting MK return with LB to the B house.
It's too easy to lay suspicion in that scene, since so much could be contrived into the story, such as:
KK arranged for JB to be sent home early and she did not let LB sleep over or let her daughter return with LB to the B house because she plotted to have LB wisked away from McCleary forever and ever because LB was such a bad influence on her daughter and that she never really liked the Bs anyway........
If KK were involved what would be a motivating factor? Money via Human Trafficking? Revenge? Fodder for a book? I suspect that is highly unlikely.
I just don't buy the stranger abduction b/c in a town that small s/he would have stuck out like a sore thumb. It's my opinion that whoever took Lindsey is very familiar with that community. Although I fear Lindsey is no longer with us I do think her precious body is nearby.
Novice Seeker
Hopefully, time will tell one way or another.
