It had to be that she completed her drive before calling LE.
It had to be that the foster grandma was unaware of that drive and that it occurred during that span of time where she could find neither Wm nor the foster mother.
It had to be that she ERASED 30 minutes from the morning's timeline and IMO sought to steamroll the foster grandma into remembering/reciting it her way.
Wm leaves the patio.
(Missing 30 minutes.)
Foster mother reminds foster grandma that Wm's been missing 5 minutes (but the foster grandma had to question that, in her mind at least! She would know that Wm exited, some minutes passed, the foster mother left, in search of him, and then MORE time elapsed, enough that the foster grandma felt compelled or concerned or curious enough to go in search of them her, which is more than five minutes!).
After the drive, IMO, the foster mother makes a show of searching in the cupboards and throughout the house. (Was she keeping a close eye on the foster daughter if she felt Wm had been abducted? It's a bad day to have two children abducted, in succession.)
IMO she furthers her narrative with LE -- missing for five, searching for fifteen or twenty, no mention of the missing 30.
Here's a new thought -- if Wm was exhausting her that day and tensions were high, is it possible that the foster mother grabbed a very alive Wm and drove off with him, without carseat, with the intention to hand him off to his PREFERRED foster parent?
I still say that photo was not for a scrapbook. It was a photo of Wm being "naughty", (naughty as defined by a tightly wound caregiver with IMO unreasonable expectations of children's behavior). I think she labeled it "Daddy Tiger" and doesn't like that photo because it represents -- nay, it depicts -- Wm's loyalty to the foster father, and it's not a happy connection FOR HER.
Imagine if Wm refused to buckle in, refused to sit down, ramped up on the busyness of morning and the adventure of meeting up with the foster father. There may have been a flurry of texts, later deleted and not discovered until much later, after their digital forensics were ordered (MOO).
I daresay, if something like this happened, she and Wm never caught up to the foster father. Extreme anger, impatience, discipline?
MOO
9:47, photos. Not posed, not vignettes, not scrapbooky.
9:50, Wm scolded, Wm and foster mother leave the patio.
Immediate drive. Returning anywhere from 10:15 to..... without Wm, without whatever she discarded roadside.
Begins searching with the foster grandma, the search clock (re)starting, when it actually started, right there on the patio at 9:47.
JMO
