You know I really can buy the scenario of Dylan having left out on foot, with his backpack(and all its contents) in tow..possibly irritated with dad for not taking him at 630am to the friends(regardless of whether he had a valid reason to feel this way or not).. I can buy that complete scenario, no problem..
What further IMO lends credence to this scenario is that we have a postman who knows Dylan and believes that he actually saw Dylan, with his black backpack walking on foot on Monday.. But here goes the major issue for me..
To believe that the walking to friends with backpack in tow is true..then IMO it makes it IMO extremely likely that the postman's account of seeing Dylan walking is true as well..IMO much much more likely that the postman's acct is true...and if the postman's acct is true...
Well then we have to believe that not only was Dylan walking along the road SO TOO WAS ANOTHER YOUNG MALE WALKING ASIDE HIM ON THE ROAD AS WELL... so where do you go from there??
Again I end up with two totally different possibilities...
A) the entire walking scenario is just not true and the postman was mistaken(moo is likely)
Or what IMO is much much more UNLIKELY but nonetheless some of us have broached earlier..
B) the walking on foot scenario is true..the postman's acct is true and Dylan was with a "friend" walking at some point on Monday...
Several of us have discussed the strange initial reaction we had to the friends statement made publicly near the beginning of the case.. He stated it was the friends belief that Dylan left his dads on foot to hitch a ride to get to his friends..and that it was at that point SOMEONE TOOK HIM..
Again not making any accusations here, but rather attempting TO LOOK AT ALL POSSIBILITIES and it cannot be denied that there were those of us that were immediately taken aback at IMO the strange direction and scenario that his friends were stating they believed to have happened to Dylan..odd IMO..odd...just saying..not accusing..
Smooth Operator....I love to read your posts. You put so many things into prospective and do it so eloquently! I like these two scenarios's. What if Dylan did leave his Dad's house on foot with his phone and stuff in his backpack and the mailman is correct? Here are my questions.
1. If the mailman recognized Dylan after he has been gone for 6 months or so, and did not recognize the second young man.....that tells me the "friend" was not a local. If he was from the area I would think the mailman would recognize him as well as Dylan. So I think with this the "friend" is not from this area?
2. How did Dylan communicate with this friend if his cell phone had not been used since 8PM Sunday night? I am assuming Dad had a landline, but how many kids communicate with friends on a landline anymore? Besides, LE would know who he called by now if he had used the landline. I think??
3. If this friend was one of the boys coming up with the scenario of hitchhicking, as visable as they have been in the media I would think the mailman would have recognized him. I am sure LE has a description of the other young man with Dylan. If he gave it to LE, they certainly would be able to whiddle it down to a "known" friend. This is a small tightknit community I think. So the big question here is "WHO" is the friend?
If Dylan had been alone when the mailman saw him, I could totally agree that he walked off and fell, got hit by a car accidentally or someone picked him up. But since he wasn't alone, I am leaning toward this scenario being a mistake in identity. But on the other hand, if it wasn't Dylan, surely the two boys who were walking in the neighborhood that day would have come forward by now.
I tend to agree with you on the A scenario. The mailman is incorrect and something else happened to Dylan. Remember the Gail Palmgren case? She left her house after a fight with her husband (who had a girlfriend) and was never seen again. Everyone thought her husband was to blame for harming her because his actions were so strange, but then when the foilage fell off the trees in winter, they found her car had run off the road over a cliff? If you cannot see an SUV that fell over a cliff, a small boy would be hard to see also.
I really can see some accident happening to Dylan while he was outside and he just hasn't been found yet.
I am still on the fence with this one. I think the Dad's actions are very strange and the one thing I find the most concerning is NO activity on the phone after 8PM Sunday. That just isn't "NORMAL". Hope this young man is found soon.
