I haven't been following this case for very long, but I had a couple thoughts while reading up on this case and then looking at her social media added a few more, but in all of the available info there is one thing that really stands out IMO.
The most eye catching thing to me so far is the finding of her bag and then the delay in reporting that a bag was found. Some reports suggest that her parents did confirm the contents of the bag were hers, while other reports suggest that LE did not reveal this find because it took them awhile to confirm the bag was hers. This is the first red flag IMO. Keeping in mind LE already had a good idea what items to be looking for and they were going to verify it's contents regardless of her family telling them that the items are hers. You find the bag, check for anything unusual, if nothing unusual you immediately try to verify it is hers (showing to her parents may be a way a quick and easy way.) If you do find something unusual, you then take the necessary steps to ensure that information does not come out right away. After four days of holding onto the bag, there may have been some trepidation in even releasing that find. To make it seem more obscured, LE seems to be playing a little game with the bag and its contents through the media. It could of been, her bag was found but we do not wish to discuss that any further at this time, but that is not what we are being offered.
The timing of releasing that her bag was found and the timing of reports of the FBI becoming involved is not a coincidence. I fear this case has taken a turn for the worst because the FBI does not get involved in suspected runaways, but they do get involved in suspected abductions.
IMO there is certainly something going on with this bag, it does not appear to be as simple as her bag was tossed and that is all we know. Also, I think it would be a safe assumption that her friends at school would know when/why she carried extra clothes with her, did she usually have another purse/bag with her, etc... I also wonder if she had a habit of sharing clothes or other items that could be found in a purse with her friends, that bag could be a buffet of evidence, probably most of it not in any way related to her being missing.
Then we add in the other discrepancy of the bag being tossed or secreted away and I would say this bag may hold more clues than the public is being led to believe. Here is the quote (from a news clip) from LE on the Nancy Grace show- The reason the information wasn`t immediately made available to the public was because we had to confirm that the clothes did belong to Sierra, and we had to do some further investigative follow-up on that. Through confirmation from Sierra`s family and through some of the investigative efforts, we have now confirmed that those clothes and the bag did belong to Sierra.-
Take notice to the descriptions that LE was giving about the bag the next 2-3 days after the info was public. The array of attributed quotes from LE is the they found a bag and confirmed it was hers, another reported quote says they found the juicy brand bag and clothes inside, another report said juicy brand bag and clothes folded neatly inside, another report said neatly folded clothes with bra and underwear inside the purse. (Many other MSM articles are floating around.)
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/22/clothes-found-in-bag-belong-to-missing-
california-teen-police-say/
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Search-for-Missing-Sierra-LaMar-Intensifies-
Saturday-144108536.html
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1203/23/ng.01.html
Okay, so let me try to recap what is being said here. LE says that they had found her bag (keeping in mind this particular type of bag is not commonly found laying in the ditch/grass and they were already aware she had a similar bag) and it took them four days to confirm it was her's, through her family AND through investigative efforts. In the Nancy Grace interview, several days after the LE release of info, her mother claims to have not seen this bag after it was found.
What would make sense to me, is if there was some type of obvious evidence found on the bag/clothes and LE wanted to make sure they were ahead of the game before they released that info. Otherwise, you just have a bag with clothes that anyone in LE/searchers with basic information on this case would say there is a 99% chance that is her bag right away.
Is anyone else sensing a vibe that LE is trying to send out mixed messages about this
bag? What possible messages could they be sending out about this bag. Most likely
something they think that only the abductor may understand? I think where there is
smoke, there is fire.
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