oh duh, i hadn't thought about the moon being in a different position in the sky.
it looks like her porch faces northwest. if the no-shadow picture were later in early morning hours, the moon would be further west than the other images, and you'd expect his shadow to stretch out and gradually point more toward the east, going across the porch and toward the right from the camera's PoV. .... unless something big obstructed it, but i don't see any structures or plants big enough and dense enough to do that. but if it were earlier (perhaps contra patel saying it was the "same morning"), say 10 pm or earlier the night before, you might expect the house's moon-shadow to cover the area where he's standing.
so if this was within 24 hours of the disappearance, and if the lack of shadows isn't due to digital alteration, then i have to think either there's a passing cloud or the image is from the night before, guesstimating sometime in the 7 pm - 11 pm window.
