Recent content by OneLove

And we teachers took note of this and started watching more closely for other cues on the status of a kid's homelife. Wearing yesterday's clothes, lack of warm enough clothes, lack of breakfast or decent lunches, clothes that smelled of urine, bruises and welts, general state of fear, clinging...

Tox screen for the parents. And if they were just asking (since there were no charges), they could have asked step grandma too and the uncle (who is almost never mentioned for some reason) just to see their reactions. It doesnt cost to ask and can be of investigational use, even if the screens...

It was reported earlier that his parents had recently fired some Hispanic workers who had worked on the farm. I wonder what his level of communication with them had been. I once had neighbors from a region of Mexico where kidnapping kids & holding them for ransom had become almost commonplace. I...

Totally agree with this with only one teensy tiny exception: it's possible (though not likely given everything else) that Jack had seen the school enough already with Lily's several years there that maybe he'd already seen the classroom and layout of the school in the past. If this degree of...

Being kept out and awake so late at night might indicate no intention of kids going to school the next day? I would hope they weren't kept awake that late ordinarily on school nights?? Since they were out so late and doubtful they were up so early, she must have judged they had bad coughs the...

Very curious, especially given that the teachers were having to provide appropriate clothing for the children and that the school had reported the children to child protective services. This is usually not done until the school's efforts to work with the family has failed. I'd guess that was...

Given the degree of their issues and also the involvement of child protective services (what do they call that in Canada?), that's, hmm, interesting. Add that to the other cues of a state of overwhelm?

Totally agree with your whole post (which I snipped to highlight these 3 points). The thrashing through waist deep water got my attention way back when Daniel emphasized that very early on. That seemed strange to me then and more so now. I wish he would explain why that was his earliest "go...

And many times, what *seems* to go cold or dormant is actually very active time of surveillance, building a wider net of surveillance, and sometimes developing and insertion of undercovers. Investigations can be like icebergs; you only see what's on the surface. i tracked a 2 year long "net" of...

It would be highly unlikely, though, that they picked up plenty of scent right there in the yard but did not track one iota of scent leading from there into the woods, not even 5 feet and then losing the scent due to.... whatever. Not tracking even a bit into the edge of the woods is very telling.

Thankfully, the tracking dogs were quickly on the scene. They picked up plenty of scent of the kids in the house and on the property but none leaving the property except at the end of the driveway, That means they almost certainly did not wander off into the woods or the dogs would have picked...

Of course. And likewise, one possibility is he's entirely NOT innocent. Any strong lean one way or the other without evidence is sheer wishfullness. I'm very well aware of that. An open investigation is for the purpose of recovering the children and no possibilities are excluded on the...

Yes, absolutely and understood. But at the same time, this action does not prove he is innocent either or that he does not know more than he is telling. Its still an open investigation. Every possibility is still on the table until it is not.

Even if he WAS out there "searching" every day, it could simply be as a cover up. We do not yet know what we do not yet know and must consider EVERY possibility. Remember that IF he committed a heinous crime that disappeared the kids, he is fighting for his life. Although i have zero firm...

In judging what's appropriate for anyone involved in this *investigation*, especially in mind it is an ongoing *investigation*. Anything can be said in the interests of recovering the children, as an investigative strategy. Getting closely involved people to talk more can provide new clues...