Thanks, @HayLouise -- I did not know of this resource until I saw your post. Sad story about Serenity, of course, and a good briefing about her and the situation with her adoptive family.
The little girl in the doorbell video was the direct nextdoor neighbor girl. The house on the corner. The mother didn't want anyone knowing. I don't know why. I was very involved with that incident and thought it was Serenity too. It was an exhausting chase down a rabbit whole for nothing.
The little girl in the doorbell video was the direct nextdoor neighbor girl. The house on the corner. The mother didn't want anyone knowing. I don't know why. I was very involved with that incident and thought it was Serenity too. It was an exhausting chase down a rabbit whole for nothing.
It's not unlikely at all. It is very rough terrain, with lots of pockets and the like. It is not at all easy to search, and impossible to see everything. That's true in the best of terrain, which this certainly was not. People have gone missing before in that area, and not been found until many years later, despite extensive searches.
I've always thought it would be the black rubber boots they'd find. It doesn't degrade much other than drying and cracking, especially the sole. This is that one time I wish she had on a "gender" color like pink or purple so it would catch their eye.Same here, @SkipperKey3 -- It's like she and her clothes vanished into thin air. Just Poof!
When I read about the bodies Ted Bundy stashed in the woods -- hunters would find a skull or a thigh-bone, or a hunk of hair, etc., in hunting season, and this enabled the detectives to i.d. the women, in most cases, and at least the family would know what happened to their daughters. Not one bone, button, pants or jacket zipper, etc., has been found. Maybe now with a spring thaw coming, something will be found, but it would almost have to be something metal or bones for some artifact to be found now, seems to me. I just continue to hope that some kind soul, known or unknown to her, picked her up and she is living a happy life -- but that's a really unlikely scenario, IMO.
But we can hope.
Ohh -- good point! I forgot about those boots! Yes, those boots. I can't see an animal or a bird, etc., taking those boots somewhere to eat or to make a nest or bolster a beaver dam, etc. Black boots would be a bit more difficult to spot, yes, but the size of them surely would be noticed by hunters or searchers, etc... Let's hope.
True, but if she simply found a place to hide (and try to stay warm), they won't be just sitting out in plain sight. She was apparently very good at hiding in small spaces, by what we have been told. So, if she found a space in a patch of brush or even a hollow tree, the boots wouldn't be visible to a cursory search.
