No, you totally are NOT shooting for the stars here. This thought has has been present and pervasive in my mind for weeks before he was arrested. Foreclosures, estate sales, fixer-uppers...we have been searching for a new home this winter and have seen PLENTY of totally vacant, and often private homes. One of the places we are currently looking at is an estate sale that actually had the contractor that was fixing it up living in it while he did it. Also, some people ("snowbirds") leave Alaska for the winter... That is why it is SO important that people come forward with info on where he has been working/had access to. I would hope that cell phone records might also assist with this....
So here is what I am aiming at:
I believe that there is a reason why Samantha was chosen to be taken. Whether it be someone that she was involved with or a family memeber was or her boyfriend was. I can't stress enough that I don't think who ever is being taught a lesson (if that is the case) did not believe this would happen initially. I would say now they do.
So IK is involved, we know he is involved with the abduction. I still don't think he was actually the one that took Sam from the hut.
So someone was paid (maybe by IK on behalf of someone else) to abduct Samantha. Hiding in Alaska can't be hard. When I was in Anchorage during a winter no one saw my face the entire time I was outside because I was dressing to resemble a bank robber so my nose wouldn't fall off my face.
Samantha was taken to a place in Alaska to be hidden, thinking this would all be cleared up pretty quickly. She could be moved around to several locations without ever being seen.
Police may have gotten word that IK was involved and started watching him, eventually following him to Texas in hope it may lead to more information.
Police have always said, until recently, that they believed Samantha was alive.
The incentive for these people to keep going was always the ever-growing reward.
An Example: One person is owed money for drugs by someone that knows Samantha and cares about her.
He makes a deal with IK to get Samantha and keep her until he is repaid. IK takes the deal thinking it will be a short time and he can go anywhere and say he is fixing up a house (after all he will be returning with money to cover that). IK then organizes for someone to grab her so his hands stay clean at a crime scene. Samantha is then delivered to IK who heads to a more remote place in Alaska.
Reward starts growing. Person owed money originally sees that the father will give everything as a form of reward and believes him. Greed sets in and he can now see the original 10000 he is owed can be over 40, 000 (and growing).
Whoever owed the money originally can't go to the police and say anything because then they are directly linked to drugs and ensured a nice jail sentence if found out.
The police are not involving Sam's loved ones in the investigation because indirectly they are the cause for her disappearance and police want to make sure that they are not directly involved.
IK has enough of the baby sitting of samantha, tells the people he has had enough and she can be found in a certain house then leaves OR they don't pay IK, he is tired of waiting and heads to the border. (The Alcan is so long and so white .... )
... I gotta run for a bit :maddening:
:moo: and all that
That puts Samantha in someone elses hands in an unknown location
