CHERIE.T
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How could it be a waste of time to check if the girls had drowned? Two bikes and a purse were found next to the shore. Even though the lake was leech infested and not a swimming lake, the facts that the bikes and purse were found there means that they could have disappeared into the water. That possibility absolutely had to be ruled out.
At the same time, land searches were done by volunteers, and investigators were trying to wrap their heads around the various possibilities. One by one, options were eliminated until the only possible explanation for the disappearance was abduction. If police had immediately assumed that it was an abduction, people would be complaining that they hadn't properly excluded the possibility of a drowning.
Children do "go poof" at lakes all the time ... they drown. The fact that the bikes and purse were at the lake when they were abducted suggests that the perp had a huge, potentially premeditated, advantage at the start. Everything was perfectly staged to suggest a drowning. How can investigators be criticized for investigating every possible angle, including the obvious: drowning?
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Kids do not just go poof. These girls did NOT drown which is why I made that comment.
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