Recent content by pinkpuddytat

Or to WebSleuthing. But good luck trying to get on the disability dole for that. Yes, it's the "generic lowlife" addictions that qualify for many forms of disability payments/welfare/etc. Excessive shopping, video-gaming, or WebSleuthing simply don't.

I didn't dig into details. It may have been private, or a state program as opposed to federal.

Obviously no way to verify at this point whether these statements are true, but seems to me to be consistent with the body of actual and circumstantial evidence we have so far. And if KB hadn't spoken to AB since the move to the US, I doubt she'd have spoken to Zahra either. OF course, hardly...

To some extent I agree. But, for example, nobody gets addicted to meth without trying it at least once, and it's extremely unusual for any remotely responsible person do that. People with the genetic trait for Type 1 diabetes will get it no matter what or how much they eat. Drug addictions...

She wasn't deaf. She had some hearing loss in the high frequency range only. Mostly makes it difficult to distinguish between unvoiced consonants, but certainly wouldn't have caused any serious communication problems with adults she'd grown up with, familiar with their accents and patterns of...

Or for the "disability" of drug addiction. Our welfare system defines all sorts of generic lowlife behavior as "disability". This past summer I had occasion to become acquainted with a nice young man who's struggling to get through college with zero financial support from his dysfunctional...

Expressions such as "pretty clear" and the imprecise quantification "wasn't doing much" aren't how I assert incontrovertible facts. There is virtually nothing that we know with certainty that authorities have firmly determined to be true. But there's a lot of evidence from authoritative...

Also keep in mind that all that info the grandmother is quoted as giving had already appeared in US/internet media before she said it. She could very well have gotten the info from media and/or speaking to LE.

Deductive reasoning. Police haven't shared a whole lot of information about the case, but they have been pretty open about their trouble pinning down when Zahra was last known to have been alive. LEO has spoken to the mother directly (by phone) and I expect to the grandmother as well, and...

Do you know if that would be a block to a tourist visa as well?

I'll note for the record that it's pretty clear grandmum wasn't doing much phoning to NC either (nor mum).

That's certainly possible. But since he'd be eligible for residency with the right to work here, by virtue of his marriage, it would have made sense to go that route. If he didn't have the sense to pursue that himself, I would think his longsuffering mamma would have tried to lead him through...

Any child who's going to be claimed as a dependent for tax purposes needs a SS#. If AB was working here legally, which he most likely was, since he's married to a US citizen, then his employer(s) would likely be withholding taxes and he'd need to file a tax return, and would have a lower final...

Do you happen to know the source of this timeline? It looks pretty makeshift, and since the LEO who actually spoke to Zahra's mother on the phone used only the vague term "separated", I'm still inclined to think they were never married. Just seems very unlikely to me that a woman who had a...

Do we know that Zahra's parents were ever married? I don't think I've seen that mentioned, and if I had to take a random guess, I'd guess they weren't.