Yeah, I know that's what she would want. It is so hard, though, thinking that she might still be alive out there waiting for us and we're no closer to finding her. We will for sure be together on Thanksgiving though no matter what.
The quarry has only been searched by helicopter and people looking around it. LE has talked about bringing divers in but I haven't heard anything definite.
As far as her dog, she didn't always try to run out the door and after this happened, she sometimes would hide when we came in the house, so I don't know if maybe someone scared her so badly that she didn't try to get out the door? She wasn't harmed in any way.
Your mother's dog seemed to maybe have almost PTSD from when she was attacked and abducted..
In risk of sounding insane, it might be important to observe how her dog reacts around different people, dogs are extremely intelligent, no doubt the pup would be able to "identify" the perp in some way or another. Not that the dog's "identifing" a perp would hold up in court, it could help with a direction to go.. Now that i said this, i'm not sure how to expose the dog to different "people", especially ones who may be a perp.
The dog wasn't harmed in any way, so whoever the perp was did not see the dog as a threat, imo.. One who harms humans, will just as easily harm animals i would think.. When faced with a threat animals, as humans do have a fight or flight response.
Your mother is a fighter, the dog is a flighter it seems. Poor thing must have been very scared for her mom, too. If she was very scared she may have hid that night as well.
Your mother, being a "fighter" is good, as that she left more clues down the road in an attempt to escape the car.
It is mentioned by other posters that why wasn't she just harmed in the house? Why was she taken away?
These are good questions that i wish we had answers to..
Would it be possible that the perp(s) had knowledge of the area and your mother personally, so they knew she is fighter and the cautious type.
They may try to "seperate" her from means of communicating with others asap (her cell phone, computer,etc).
The only reason i can think of to "take her away" instead of doing something at her house would be evidence, fear of your mother either calling one of her children, or the children showing up (or friends for that matter), fear of leaving a lot of evidence (this may be possible if they know that your mother has a "fighter" type of personality and wouldn't go willingly or easily with them), also and lastly, possibly someone was "hired" or abducting her to bring to someone else in person. The person who would have "hired" others for dirty work wouldn't be able to be seen in that area, as they would be identifiable, which would mean they are familiar in the area there.
A perp who is familiar there would go to extremes to make it look like it was no one familiar to the area; hiring others to do an abduction, renting a vehicle possibly (or bringing in an unfamiliar one).
I hope i am making sense here..
Rita, my heart and prayers go out to you and your family, especially around this time of Holidays..
I went to that first to see if we could help with a timeline. She generally posts in the afternoon. Can anyone get into her email and see when her last "read" emails were? That could narrow things down if she was indeed using the computer at the time.
