wishuwerehere
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Well you dont want to make wild assumptions, but to get anywhere in developing an idea of what happend you have to make assumptions based on a number of factors.
1) Evidence. Clint heard voices outside, then heard/saw silhouettes in his garage. You dont seem to be able to get into the garage from the front (there are no doors and there are photos of this part of the house). So they had to have been around back. Clint never mentioned anything about anyone coming in the front door. It seems perhaps the family uses the back door.
2) Looking at other cases to find similarities and differences
3) Human nature (people worldwide have common behavioral patterns)
4) Witnesses - while eyewitnesses can be wrong, they can also be real good. Unless there is a reason to discount a witness, some weight should be given to what they say.
In this case, the neighbor does not say she heard Holly scream. So implying that the neighbor did say it was Holly perpetuates some of the problems in figuring out what happened (or didnt). AFAIK the neighbor heard female "bloodcurdling screams" coming from the direction of Holly's house. Yes it could be another girl out in the woods screaming but how many girls would be out in the woods screaming compared to the one girl, Holly, we know was abducted at that same time. Seems unlikely that any other girl was in the area screaming. IMHO...
Clint was awakened by the dog. It seems the perp and Holly were already engaged in the garage/carport (here we go again). So we do not KNOW how the perp originally presented himself to Holly (because Clint was sleeping). There is no reason to discount Clint's testimony, but his testimony does not reveal all of the facts.
As for the neighbor, I have never heard or read her statement; just secondhand from the media, as in "screams coming from the house."