I don't know, I know people reported the thread, and I know that 4chan fully cooperates with investigations. I'm not a mod.
Also, update.
I personally think it's TD.
The fact that one of his facebook friends posted a similar basement got me thinking that the basement could be the place he filmed. The fact the video was specific enough to list him as with a neighbor was odd.
I went to his brother's facebook, found the MySpace friend, and found that friend's mom. I went to her pictures and there were lots of girls in the picture that could have been the age of the other victim at the time. There was a kid who looked like Taylor Druyor but was only 6 or so. The fact that his family and the couch-friend's family lived nearby and the fact couch-friend's family had a basement as well as female children that could match the ID of the other victim are my reason to believe it's TD.
The pictures are higher quality than the ones released for TD and the ones released for the unidentified child.
The fact he disappeared around the time the video was released (2010) is also my reason to believe that it's him.
I feel like I need to recap my own thoughts to get my head around all the information, so bare with me...
My only issue with that is that if TD was in fact the boy in the video, and the video takes place at a neighbor's house, how is that linked to his disappearance?
At the start of this thread I, like many others, was acting on the assumption that this was a boy in danger in the most extreme sense of the word - someone kidnapped, held against their will, etc. We started looking at missing boys and found a few that might match up. TD was, and I suppose still is, a forerunner. My issue was that I didn't think some facial characteristics - ears and mouth for example - were matches. I was even thinking he might not be American, due to some physical characteristics present in the stills that LE released and the fact that ICE mentioned he might be unable to ask for help. Of course, that was a very literal interpretation, but I had to start somewhere and wasn't finding any reported missing here that I thought were bullseyes.
I had some lingering questions about the still shots, especially wondering about the presence of another child that LE alluded to as well as the involvement of an adult. It wasn't until I looked through comments to an article on the boy at a news site that I saw the reference to a full video, supposedly discovered during a raid in another country. I immediately thought that was weird - not that foreign LE knew about the video, but that they had an online name for it and were willing to post it so publicly.
I did not view the Imageshack stills, and I'm glad I didn't. It seems that a lot of people who did felt really icky afterward. I agree that this case gets under your skin. The seedy underbelly of society is disturbing. When it involves children it's beyond words. I'm not sure that I agree with the concept of posting pictures containing the young girl's image. While I don't blindly trust any organization, I have to think that there are many good reasons why LE didn't release it. For all we know, LE already knows who she is, and now her image is forever burned into internet psyche. I will give the Imageshack poster the benefit of the doubt and agree s/he was trying to help, and without seeing the pictures I don't know if that could have been achieved without showing the young girl.
Of course, I am thankful that some additional, non-offensive shots solely of the boy were available here for a time only because it makes me think more and more than it isn't TD at all. They were clearer, and to be honest, the boy look different in each one. I understand why there is a very dicey and slippery slope involved with posting even those shots, and I respect that.
Which brings me back to TD. After learning what the context of the video is, I don't know that we're dealing with someone who is a missing person. If this is indeed TD, and the young girl is a friend's sister, and the setting is a neighbor's basement, then why is he missing? A result of what he was involved in? Just a coincidence? What seems more likely to me is that an adult orchestrated the abuse of a young girl using a young boy, and that neither are missing persons. Maybe they know each other, maybe not. Maybe an adult wasn't present in the room, maybe they were. I don't know enough the video and angles of the cameras, and I don't think that issue helps ID the boy.
My gut tells me that if this isn't TD, and I'm not so sure it is, then the only hope of ID comes through someone who has seen him and knows him. I don't think we find him as missing, and I don't think we can deduce much about geographic location. Remember, LE has seen the video. They pulled the stills. They know more about it than we do and they're not asking for help with anything except this boy's ID. I have no doubt that they know more than they've let on to.
Let's remember that we don't know the circumstances and really don't need to. This could be one single video that someone reported. This could be one of a cache found during a raid. This could be, this could be, this could be. I'd hate to see our members here bicker over the small, inconsequential stuff when I know that everyone has the same goal. You guys are awesome - keep doing awesome things, but remember to get out into the sunshine and try to get some of the residual yuckiness of this case out of your head from time to time!
