Oh snap! I think they can call off the park search.
Ask yourself why United Airlines hasn’t taken a big lead in organizing efforts to find their senior executive of some 13 years service? A guy they're paying likely $500k/year or more. I can almost guarantee that internal investigators, in discussions with outside police and other services, have determined that the search being promoted on the FaceBook group is known to be not helpful to them. Why? Hard to know yet.
A couple on the FaceBook group have been trying to silence the skeptics, and now have the skeptics banned. Pretty counterproductive in my view.
If people still want to search the forest preserve, they need to do it in a thoughtful way. Several here and elsewhere already flagged the circumstances that have made the original story suspect. The left-behind cell phone and smart watch are clear clues that this guy doesn't want to be found. His going to this location where he was known to run in hiking boots and non-running clothes (from the gas station video) was a clear misdirection. The area where he parked his car is fairly rural with NO cameras likely in the immediate area.
Police searched the area at the beginning, likely to ensure that “all leads were followed”, even though they clearly didn’t believe he was there despite the presence of his parked car. And any big company like United, with thousands of employees already sitting home on covid furlough, would have been expected to organize a huge search after he went missing with these loyal (and likely bored at home) employees.
And I'll go one step further. If there *IS* a criminal probe, it DOESN'T involve his workplace. If that was the case (some kind of internal malfeasance) they would have sacked him first and then made a criminal referral. As of 15 minutes ago, his bio and picture are still shown on the United Airlines "leadership" page.
Put on your thinking cap.
