"The focus now is online communications and messaging apps." It sounds like they
weren't focusing on online communications and messaging from the start, which would indicate they don't believe this is the result of an online predator or similar, but now they are? I agree with
@Confusion - it sounds like they're running out of leads sadly. Not necessarily tips, but leads. And sadly I don't think they had many to begin with.
I do agree strongly, based on intuition and nothing more, with a previous post that the perp (if one person) is likely someone ostracized from otherwise well functioning/normal family and friends. Whether due to a drug problem, mental health issues (more likely a personality disorder, especially an antisocial one, than something such as depression or anxiety, although that's of course possible too), financial issues, abuse/trauma/PTSD, anything that would prevent someone from being a contributing member of society. Not necessarily connected to the Closs family, but within their own family, I feel strongly that they are somehow ostracized.
If two people, I see the wrong house hit as very possible/likely. I don't see it as meth
addicts because while they would likely be violent, unpredictable, delusional, psychotic, the whole nine yards, I also don't know how they could have covered their trail so well. However, if it's meth (or other drug)
dealers and/or their associates - people who deal drugs for the big money, do business with no remorse for who gets hurt, as long as they get their money and keep their tracks covered, and who do
not do the actual drugs themselves but know what a huge clientele base (for lack of a better word) they have in the area with the apparent addiction problems in Barron, that makes sense to me. They would be skilled at covering their tracks, at doing business. If the people (two, three, who knows) who went to / were sent to the Closs house by their boss, did get the wrong house, for whatever reason (Google maps, poor visibility at night, bad information from informants (is that the right word for criminals who share information with each other?) whether they had the wrong family or the wrong house, or whether someone in the Closs family unknowingly saw/heard something they weren't supposed to - this I think is a possibility), then it makes sense that if they entered the house expecting a couple to "take out" or extort drugs/money/information from, and found a child, and they had
only been instructed to deal with two adults, it makes sense that these two people would take the child back to their "boss" to ask them what to do with her. And I hate to think what their drug dealing boss' answer would be.
I truly hope it's a deeply misguided individual believing they are a savior rescuing Jayme and she is somewhere safe, warm, being fed and cared for, scared out of her wits, but at least physically safe.
Almost every theory on here makes sense except that it doesn't. It's like trying to put together a puzzle but every time you're almost finished, a different piece is missing each time.
Well this turned into a much longer post than I anticipated! All MOO, JMO!
