CA CA - Karlie Lain Gusé, 16, Mono County, 13 Oct 2018 #3

[Webdetective25]

Can I have your opinions on a FB profile by the same name and surname with an “r” between the g and the u ? The only photo was uploaded in sept 2019.
Thank you

Interesting. There is a resemblance and the FB user is from CA. But I cannot imagine Karlie would have gone through all that trouble to disappear just to create a FB profile with her face showing and just one additional letter added to her name.

 

[Noirdame79]

Interesting. There is a resemblance and the FB user is from CA. But I cannot imagine Karlie would have gone through all that trouble to disappear just to create a FB profile with her face showing and just one additional letter added to her name.

Agreed. I would love it if she is alive, but sadly, I don't think she is. I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Noirdame79]

Oops double post

 

[truthfinder2019]

Agreed. I would love it if she is alive, but sadly, I don't think she is. I hope I'm wrong.

I would love that too. The photo troubles me as main facial features are the same. The curved nose, the eyebrows, the shape of the earlobes, the distance netween the eyes. Etc. The hair direction. Look at her hands and nails. Looks older with heavy makeup but it is so similar that it sincerely makes me wonder. 1 photo then nothing else, states to be engaged. For sure LE has followed the lead. I hope….We all have lookalikes somewhere but this one is quite astonishing.

 

[Noirdame79]

Since they never found her there or anywhere else, IDK if calling it a "scam" is accurate because we don't know. There's numerous areas she could've gotten into that radar wouldn't have covered. While I'm with you that LE did an extensive search, since she wasn't found anywhere I don't think you can really say that a particular theory is totally ruled out.

Really the theories IMO boil down to a few:

1. Karlie tried to run away or accepted a ride from a yet to be identified stranger who took her wherever they took her and she is either living a new life somewhere or was murdered by said person or someone else in whatever new location she went.
2. Karlie wandered off into the desert and surrounding area and died from the elements and LE searches missed her body.
3. Karlie's stepmother or someone else in the house killed or hurt her and then covered it up.

I personally ranked them in order of likelihood based on what we know now and unfortunately do not believe Karlie is still alive - the chance of that is extremely low. #3 has never made any sense outside of the wilder theories posted elsewhere with 'evidence' such as "SM lied about her wearing jeans" and "SM seems shady". My signature includes Occam's Razor and #3 is the antithesis of that if you apply common sense and the fact that LE investigated both step parents repeatedly and found no evidence of involvement so I refuse to believe that the SM was this master criminal that could evade all investigatory bodies involved on the case.

So we're down to #1 or #2 or some offshoot of those. Had #2 occurred, I hear you that it seems likely that someone either via the search or after just out in the desert for whatever reason came across her remains which could be identified through DNA.

I normally don't opt for #1 at first because the sheer coincidence or happenstance that would cause a stranger with bad intentions to come across her at the exact time she left home in a drug-induced haze is up there, but I'm not sure what else even applies here.

These kinds of cases (of domestic homicides being covered up) happen, and again, it goes beyond the father and stepmother being "shady". They have changed their story multiple times. Who gives a wrong description of what their missing child/stepchild was wearing, especially if they later claimed that they didn't know what she was wearing? Who changes the time the child was last seen if they don't know when? If you want the child to be found, you would want any information that you give to be as accurate as possible. The SM also later claimed to have given a "false story" to Dateline NBC about the morning of Karlie's disappearance and then tried to blame that on law enforcement. How many parents of missing children do that? It can hinder the chances of the child being found. It was also very suspicious how SM jumped on social media within hours of Karlie going missing and was trying to control the narrative - where was law enforcement in all this? This a rural county and a small community, and there could very well be a "good old boy" network; SM's family is supposedly prominent in the community. You don't have to be a criminal mastermind to cover up a domestic homicide either. It also helps that they lived in a rural, isolated neighborhood (and had only lived there a short time). Just as abuse can happen behind closed doors and many don't know about it, a person can be killed within the home and it can be hidden. The fact that Karlie's father was arrested for DV and later entered into a long-term drug and alcohol treatment program is very telling.

While it's possible she was abducted from the highway, there are a few problems with this theory. One being that the SM herself claimed to have driven down the street to the highway, within the time frame that Karlie was supposedly seen by the last two witnesses, and somehow "missed" her. How is that possible? Not only how did she miss Karlie (the abduction would have had to happen within seconds of the alleged last eyewitness sighting), but if she didn't see Karlie, how did the witnesses see her? The other issue is that the Sheriff's Department set up a checkpoint along the highway in the days following Karlie's disappearance, to question passing motorists who had possibly been driving on the highway that morning. All of the people interviewed stated that they did not recall anyone matching Karlie's description at or around Highway 6; one of these people was a county worker who drove past the end of White Mountain Estates road (where Karlie was supposedly last seen) at the same time as the last eyewitness sighting, 7:30 am, and didn't see anyone.

It's also strange that this case has not gotten the media attention that it should have.

JMO

 

[Noirdame79]

Almost seven years later, and still no answers!

Bumping for Karlie

 

[Mandala]

What is the traffic like on that highway at the hour Karlie was alleged to have been seen?

 

[ACG2x]

What is the traffic like on that highway at the hour Karlie was alleged to have been seen?

As I understand, pretty sparse. Her family lived in a mountainous area that was on a stretch of highway that wasn't well traveled by anyone other than truckers and those who lived in the area. A view of it can be found here.

 

[Noirdame79]

As I understand, pretty sparse. Her family lived in a mountainous area that was on a stretch of highway that wasn't well traveled by anyone other than truckers and those who lived in the area. A view of it can be found here.

There tends to be less traffic on weekends and I think that there was construction going on at the time as well.

 

[Mandala]

There tends to be less traffic on weekends and I think that there was construction going on at the time as well.

Was the construction (e.g. the workers) ever investigated? Do you know the location of the construction?

 

[Noirdame79]

Was the construction (e.g. the workers) ever investigated? Do you know the location of the construction?

I think it was further down the highway, not near where Karlie was last seen.

 

[Noirdame79]

In the brief except of the audio recording that was played on the PEOPLE Magazine Investigates documentary, right after Karlie can be heard asking SM, "Are you going to call them?" (Referring to 911), and then Karlie says, "You just said you wouldn't . . . ." This indicates that Karlie did ask for 911 to be called and SM said no. That was a big bone of contention on the Dr. Phil episodes - Lindsay (Karlie's mom) said that Karlie asked SM to call 911, and she refused. SM claimed that Karlie only asked if something were to happen, "Would you call 911?" which also appears to be the part that Dr. Phil heard. The fact that we haven't heard the full audios (there were two) is very suspicious.

JMO

 

[Noirdame79]

According to news, there is a vegetation fire in Bishop. Many areas, including White Mountain Estates, where Karlie lived, have been evacuated. How terrifying and devastating, however, this may bring an update on her case.