All is forgiven...
I wished it had been Elvis or even a UFO... But sadly it was the Hummer that's been so heavily talked about... I get a sense I was destined to have seen the thing. A great many things occurred that day that made it stick in my mind long before I knew the vehicle would come up missing. I probably pass hundreds of cars in my travels on a daily basis. Sometimes I see some really nice cars but when I first saw that Hummer something struck me about that vehicle that just told me to take more of a notice of it. I remembered it had an unusual Lic plate starting with AWG, and that reminded me of the old AMG cars. I noticed it's tire cover was crooked something you don't usually expect to see on a vehicle that nice and well taken care of. Then of course there was that first eye catching strange decal in the rear window... I was trying to figure out what 'GLOW' was meant to be advertising...
But with that said it still bugs me about how that vehicle could be in Waterford at 4pm when LE has said her phone was never in that area. Did she forget her phone or mistakenly leave it at DS Jr's house? That might explain why it never shows up as being in Waterford and could possibly explain why she never answered her 11 year old son?
For the record, I never fully trust sightings like these. That goes for all sightings across the spectrum of pretty much every case. Now, later developments may make me trust a sighting, but I usually categorize them under the category of rumors or unsubstantiated until some sort of firm evidence or a court case occurs where the person is called.
To explain myself further, I just do not trust the human eye or mind. Every case has tons of sightings. There are probably tons for Michelle that we do not even know about. The mind plays tricks in many ways. Suddenly every bald baby becomes Baby Lisa or every blonde college girl becomes Lauren. It does not mean the person is lying or making it up. It just means that sometimes eyes and brains can trick us in a lot of different ways. I know this is a somewhat strange position and a lot of sightings are added as pure fact to cases or considered as such. That is ok, but I still think I am going to place them in the maybe pile as opposed to certain pile.
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Not to participate in anything that would sound like bickering or immaturity- only to explain why I do not think we can take it as an absolute fact that her car was where you've recently stated it was, at the time it was:
Taking off where Darcy started: I'm a psych major, some of the things we've learned about eye witness testimony is ASTOUNDING. One of our professors actually used us as guinea pigs during a lecture , we did an out side lecture that day,in the middle of the lecture actors ran by (we didn't know to be prepared for it) and acted out a set up. We were all asked as a class afterwards to describe what we saw- including giving details about one of the specific individuals. You wouldn't believe how different our descriptions of the individual was. It was hilarious- because every one of us was CONVINCED we were right and every one else was an idiot- and most of us were not correct. I remembered the guy having brown hair- he in fact had a shaved head . :blushing: Our brain doesn't like missing details - when we haven't processed input, it doesn't want to leave it it blank. It will draw on a multitude of other memories to "fill in the blanks" so to speak. An eye witness saying some one they personally know did something is generally accurate, where as eye witness details about a person/thing they aren't familiar with can be way off.
There is a chance you saw that hummer, at exactly the time you are now saying, with the exact glow mobile decals on it and all. There is an equally likely a chance that your brain is filling in details now that you've had time to reflect on your first reporting of what you witnessed. Perhaps it was a black hummer, with different decals, or on a different road, or it was HER hummer with her in it at a different time, or in a different place.
That leaves us with many questions, we unfortunately can not currently answer.
Was it really her hummer , where you now say , at the time you now said , with her driving?
If so, did she actually disappear later? Return to DS's house as some have implied? (Possibly to retrieve her phone, seeing as it hasn't been in the area you claim to have seen her, did she get there , realize she left it, and return to pick it up from DS's house?) Or not return ever, get abducted (possibly a serial killer who is responsible for at least two other highly publicized missing women in the Orlando area- perhaps he stalks, waits in prey, and picks a time where it will appear it HAS to be someone else -E.g. Dale Smith or James Hattaway)
Was it a different hummer?
Was it hers at a different time?
Was it hers , being driven by someone else (neither you nor your partner claim to have seen her from my understanding, your partner simply said woman as far as i'm reading)
There are so many things that COULD have happened. I tend to say "look in the direction that seems most likely with lack of another route to go". We have an ex, with a history of abuse, who is the last confirmed person to have seen her (granted - i am only saying confirmed there could have been more people to have seen her after who have not come forward) Whether he ends up being guilty or not- it IS the most likely place to start , and until other reasonable avenues arise , LE is doing all they can. If other likely issues arise, they too need to be explored thorough. However- we don't currently have anything else to investigate. While there is only circumstantial evidence surrounding Ds jr .... there isn't even circumstantial evidence suggesting anything else at the moment.
Obviously, I will not be surprised if it ends up Dale jr being guilty . I also, as I've stated before, wouldn't be surprised if this is some how connected to Jennifer Kesse and Tracy Ocasio -be it a serial killer, or sex trafficking- what have you. A random car jacking I do, however, find unlikely (but not impossible) generally people are not murdered during a car jacking (though they often are threatened with weapons) and IF they are, they are generally left at the scene- not hidden. I don't know of any other possible scenarios- as none have been posed. I am truly interested in hearing them if anyone has them though, as I think it would be helpful for ALL avenues to at least be brought up.
