TN - Holly Bobo, 20, Darden; believed abducted 13 April 2011 - #35

[wishuwerehere]

Cleo, as far as I know, the neighbor’s son who heard the scream is a grown man. I believe he was outside getting into his vehicle to go to work when he heard the scream or screams.

After being informed by her son re the screams, I don’t know if the lady neighbor called the Bobo home before calling KB at work. This info is not included in the narrative.

Also, I believe the neighbor arrived at the Bobo home alone, without her son (I believe he left for work after informing his mother of the screams).

 

[Irish_Eyes]

The information is taken by the responding officers, verbally. I have never seen a witness sitting at the scene of a crime writing a report. I suspect there is more to the story and there was a very good reason why he was seated there. The typed report is gathered later in the investigation...with help from the officers on how to write it. They generally have to help write it for the witness due to the witness not being savvy writing these types of things. I sure would love to see his first writing. They need to get things in an orderly fashion. Many witnesses are all over the place and don't give a clear sense of what exactly was going on.

just wanted to say that this happened to me once. I was walking alone at night in my neighborhoo. And some drunk guy exposed himself and then begin following me. I called the police from a payphone and he started heading for the hills but they caught him. They brought him back and asked me to identify him
Then I had to write a report in the back of the car detail ing exactly what happened. So possibly this is not as an usual as it sounds.

 

[dodie20]

So, the neighbor lady's son (young lad/teen/grown man?) hears a scream and informs his mother. Did she not hear the scream? Where was this male person when he heard the scream? Was he outside of their house or inside where the mother apparently was?

And just out of curiosity, how old is this male person and what was he wearing that morning? If he was outside when he heard the scream, what was he doing? How far was he from where Clint saw Holly and her abductor enter the woods and his own house? Did this male person have a car/vehicle of his own? Did he leave his house at all that day in a vehicle that he drove?

Why did the neighbor lady call Karen at work instead of calling the Bobo home directly to see if something was wrong? Why take that extra step of calling Karen causing valuable time to be lost in trying to ascertain the source of the scream? Did the male person who heard the scream accompany his mother to the Bobo house when she drove over there?

Lots of questions......

I read that the man who heard the scream, was an adult, and then after informing his mother, he left for work! If he heard a scream, and it left enough of an impression for him to report, then why in the world did he let his mom go down there by herself? There are so many weird things about this case, but I have to say, that this is one of the things that bothers me the most. I would guess that LE checked out this man's story, but even if it checked out, it still doesn't explain why he left his mother to deal with a potentially dangerous situation. Also, I remember reading that this man lived in a house next to his mother's.

 

[~n/t~]

BBM – I’m not so sure Karen tells Clint about the scream. It would make sense that she would relay this info as soon as Clint picked up the phone. However, it seems Clint was not aware of screams being heard until the neighbor pulled up:



This issue has always confused me. Was Clint not made aware of the screams until the neighbor arrived? I would appreciate any insight anyone may have regarding Clint’s knowledge of the screams.

You are correct. I don't think it was ever reported that Karen told Clint about the scream and it was an assumption on my part based on the fact that we were told that when Karen was alerted about the neighbour's phone call she panicked. Perhaps she called Clint to ask what is going on and never mentioned the scream and that is when Clint told her that Holly and Drew were in the carport. Not sure if it would have made a difference or not. Karen told Clint to get a gun and sadly, by that time it was too late. Perhaps it was only when the neighbour showed up that Clint realized that it wasn't Drew afterall.

 

[Astrella613]

The information is taken by the responding officers, verbally. I have never seen a witness sitting at the scene of a crime writing a report. I suspect there is more to the story and there was a very good reason why he was seated there. The typed report is gathered later in the investigation...with help from the officers on how to write it. They generally have to help write it for the witness due to the witness not being savvy writing these types of things. I sure would love to see his first writing. They need to get things in an orderly fashion. Many witnesses are all over the place and don't give a clear sense of what exactly was going on.

I was a witness to a crime and was asked by police to write my statement down at the scene of the crime. Thought that was unusual, but this was in the state of Florida.

 

[Hatfield]

JMO
The whole thing with how the neighbor's son supposedly heard the scream, but then left the situation with his Mom was strange to me as well, but something else bothers me even more.

One thing I cannot understand is how there seemed to be automatic panic and knowing the situation was already a kidnapping situation at the school. Once the call to the school was made, it seems the panic switch was turned on, and it seemed to be known that a kidnapping had occurred. Even a call to LE to come help was also made right after the call to the school.

Because if all you knew was there was a scream and somebody was seen being led into the woods, then why would you assume the worst. It seems most people would want to assume it may have just been an argument and Holly left with someone. It seems most people would want to hope for the best, and not assume somebody had been kidnapped. There was nothing to assume that based just on the neighbor.

I kept trying to understand how all the people showed up at the house, and from the Jackson article, I think it was stated by the Mom that they started calling everybody they knew to come and help look for her. I am not sure exactly how it was stated, but from what I recall it sounded like the calling of others was done almost immediately. Maybe even during the ride from the school over to the house. I am pretty sure that LE would not call public people to the house, so it had to be family members calling others to come help. But, why??? Why so dire, and how did they know the worst had already happened when all that was known was a scream and somebody leading someone away.
Wouldn't you want to wait and talk with LE and ask them for directions on what to do before you call the whole town to come look for her? How did they know she was kidnapped?

We know there was a lot of conflicting information, so if the early reports of being "DRAGGED" away were true, that may explain it. If the brother had reported to the Mom on the phone that she was being "dragged" away, then of course that would explain the direness of it all, but that was not what was later said by the brother in later interviews. He even went as far to say "no hands touching", "they were walking", etc. in later interviews.

It is all so confusing because the only thing people have to go on are reports that did not come from LE. I really wish LE would release its own version of the events of that morning.

If we go based on the Jackson article and interviews, it seems clear that the brother did not think anything was really wrong at first. He even tried to keep people from going further in the woods to protect evidence which is kind of strange in itself becuse that should have been LE job. But we have a huge contrast of his reaction and the reaction at the school, and the panic to call others to the house to help search. On one hand, it seems we have the brother trying to stop people from going into the woods, and on the other hand, we have someone calling the whole town to come to the house to go search for her.

The whole thing is so confusing. The brother even said he called both Holly + Drews phones and let them ring out 5 times, so he assumed they were together. He made it sound like he did not think anything was too dire at first. But a total opposite reaction occurs from the Mom based solely on the call from the nieighbor. Unless more was said during the phone calls from the brother, and the public was just purposely mislead.

IMO
There is no way to get any firm answers to these types of questions unless LE provides their own version of what happened, and a release of the 911 calls would help as well.

 

[dodie20]

JMO
The whole thing with how the neighbor's son supposedly heard the scream, but then left the situation with his Mom was strange to me as well, but something else bothers me even more.

One thing I cannot understand is how there seemed to be automatic panic and knowing the situation was already a kidnapping situation at the school. Once the call to the school was made, it seems the panic switch was turned on, and it seemed to be known that a kidnapping had occurred. Even a call to LE to come help was also made right after the call to the school.

Because if all you knew was there was a scream and somebody was seen being led into the woods, then why would you assume the worst. It seems most people would want to assume it may have just been an argument and Holly left with someone. It seems most people would want to hope for the best, and not assume somebody had been kidnapped. There was nothing to assume that based just on the neighbor.

I kept trying to understand how all the people showed up at the house, and from the Jackson article, I think it was stated by the Mom that they started calling everybody they knew to come and help look for her. I am not sure exactly how it was stated, but from what I recall it sounded like the calling of others was done almost immediately. Maybe even during the ride from the school over to the house. I am pretty sure that LE would not call public people to the house, so it had to be family members calling others to come help. But, why??? Why so dire, and how did they know the worst had already happened when all that was known was a scream and somebody leading someone away.
Wouldn't you want to wait and talk with LE and ask them for directions on what to do before you call the whole town to come look for her? How did they know she was kidnapped?

We know there was a lot of conflicting information, so if the early reports of being "DRAGGED" away were true, that may explain it. If the brother had reported to the Mom on the phone that she was being "dragged" away, then of course that would explain the direness of it all, but that was not what was later said by the brother in later interviews. He even went as far to say "no hands touching", "they were walking", etc. in later interviews.

It is all so confusing because the only thing people have to go on are reports that did not come from LE. I really wish LE would release its own version of the events of that morning.

If we go based on the Jackson article and interviews, it seems clear that the brother did not think anything was really wrong at first. He even tried to keep people from going further in the woods to protect evidence which is kind of strange in itself becuse that should have been LE job. But we have a huge contrast of his reaction and the reaction at the school, and the panic to call others to the house to help search. On one hand, it seems we have the brother trying to stop people from going into the woods, and on the other hand, we have someone calling the whole town to come to the house to go search for her.

The whole thing is so confusing. The brother even said he called both Holly + Drews phones and let them ring out 5 times, so he assumed they were together. He made it sound like he did not think anything was too dire at first. But a total opposite reaction occurs from the Mom based solely on the call from the nieighbor. Unless more was said during the phone calls from the brother, and the public was just purposely mislead.

IMO
There is no way to get any firm answers to these types of questions unless LE provides their own version of what happened, and a release of the 911 calls would help as well.

I read, maybe in the same article, that the mother told the son to get a gun and go into the woods. So, when the cops got there, was he walking around with a gun or not? In his early descriptions, the brother seemed pretty sure that Holly was with her boyfriend. He even said that he called both numbers and when neither answered, he felt assured that they were together. Did the boyfriend ever say why he didn't answer the phone? Later though, it came out that the brother never saw for sure who the guy was, and the physical description he gave, was at odds with it being the boyfriend...taller and a lot heavier, I think. He knew the boyfriend pretty well, I think, so I don't understand this discrepancy...unless, in hindsight, he realized things were a little off. One thing that makes this case confusing, is LE keeps everything so close to the vest. From what I've read, it seems that they suspect a stalker type person, and not someone who was close to Holly. IDK what to think about this, but it seems everybody has been accounted for, and the boyfriend was simply not recognized at the grandmother's land and then went to work. If the land thing caused a big blowup, (and that's how it initially seemed), I think somebody would have said so. There seemed to be enough witnesses and phone calls back and forth, that if something dangerous had brewed, one of the people involved would have said so. Or at least, I think. Another confusing thing, is the brother assumed what Holly and the boyfriend were leaned over looking at, (JVM, show), was a dead turkey. Did he know that the boyfriend had gone hunting? Did he see the blood then or later?

 

[deca]

I know people disagree with me on this but I think it is a strong possibility that KB was viewed as an "overreacting mom" by CB.

My MIL is the proverbial Chicken Little. She is always worried about everything. Her children become immune to her panic. OR, imagine that you are a laid-back kinda person.

Now imagine one of those scenarios and add that you are CB, a young adult, just waking up and your mom calls: Where is your sister??
CB: **sigh** I dunno, her car is still here.
KB: What? she should have left for school already!
CB: well, she is running late.
KB: What is she doing?
CB: (glances outside) She is outside talking to boyfriend.
KB: GET YOUR GUN AND RUN OUTSIDE!!
CB: Mom, what...
KB: Go, that isn't boyfriend!
CB- But...mom..what...
(reluctantly starts going outside, trying to figure out what is happening. sees HB and man headed off into the woods as neighbor comes up drive. Starts calling HM name, but she doesn't turn around...he starts getting worried and fast)

 

[reedus23]

I read that the man who heard the scream, was an adult, and then after informing his mother, he left for work! If he heard a scream, and it left enough of an impression for him to report, then why in the world did he let his mom go down there by herself? There are so many weird things about this case, but I have to say, that this is one of the things that bothers me the most. I would guess that LE checked out this man's story, but even if it checked out, it still doesn't explain why he left his mother to deal with a potentially dangerous situation. Also, I remember reading that this man lived in a house next to his mother's.

He had no idea his mom was going to go up to the Bobo's residence.

 

[reedus23]

JMO
The whole thing with how the neighbor's son supposedly heard the scream, but then left the situation with his Mom was strange to me as well, but something else bothers me even more.

One thing I cannot understand is how there seemed to be automatic panic and knowing the situation was already a kidnapping situation at the school. Once the call to the school was made, it seems the panic switch was turned on, and it seemed to be known that a kidnapping had occurred. Even a call to LE to come help was also made right after the call to the school.

Because if all you knew was there was a scream and somebody was seen being led into the woods, then why would you assume the worst. It seems most people would want to assume it may have just been an argument and Holly left with someone. It seems most people would want to hope for the best, and not assume somebody had been kidnapped. There was nothing to assume that based just on the neighbor.

I kept trying to understand how all the people showed up at the house, and from the Jackson article, I think it was stated by the Mom that they started calling everybody they knew to come and help look for her. I am not sure exactly how it was stated, but from what I recall it sounded like the calling of others was done almost immediately. Maybe even during the ride from the school over to the house. I am pretty sure that LE would not call public people to the house, so it had to be family members calling others to come help. But, why??? Why so dire, and how did they know the worst had already happened when all that was known was a scream and somebody leading someone away.
Wouldn't you want to wait and talk with LE and ask them for directions on what to do before you call the whole town to come look for her? How did they know she was kidnapped?

We know there was a lot of conflicting information, so if the early reports of being "DRAGGED" away were true, that may explain it. If the brother had reported to the Mom on the phone that she was being "dragged" away, then of course that would explain the direness of it all, but that was not what was later said by the brother in later interviews. He even went as far to say "no hands touching", "they were walking", etc. in later interviews.

It is all so confusing because the only thing people have to go on are reports that did not come from LE. I really wish LE would release its own version of the events of that morning.

If we go based on the Jackson article and interviews, it seems clear that the brother did not think anything was really wrong at first. He even tried to keep people from going further in the woods to protect evidence which is kind of strange in itself becuse that should have been LE job. But we have a huge contrast of his reaction and the reaction at the school, and the panic to call others to the house to help search. On one hand, it seems we have the brother trying to stop people from going into the woods, and on the other hand, we have someone calling the whole town to come to the house to go search for her.

The whole thing is so confusing. The brother even said he called both Holly + Drews phones and let them ring out 5 times, so he assumed they were together. He made it sound like he did not think anything was too dire at first. But a total opposite reaction occurs from the Mom based solely on the call from the nieighbor. Unless more was said during the phone calls from the brother, and the public was just purposely mislead.

IMO
There is no way to get any firm answers to these types of questions unless LE provides their own version of what happened, and a release of the 911 calls would help as well.

The first alarms went off in Karen's head when CB told her that Holly was outside with her bf because at that point Karen knew it couldn't be Holly's bf that was with Holly. The bf was at grandma's property. CB didn't have reason to panic because he had not yet been told that the bf was at grandma's. So yes, I think it's pretty reasonable for him to remain unassuming and for her to start panicking at that point.

 

[reedus23]

I read, maybe in the same article, that the mother told the son to get a gun and go into the woods. So, when the cops got there, was he walking around with a gun or not? In his early descriptions, the brother seemed pretty sure that Holly was with her boyfriend. He even said that he called both numbers and when neither answered, he felt assured that they were together. Did the boyfriend ever say why he didn't answer the phone? Later though, it came out that the brother never saw for sure who the guy was, and the physical description he gave, was at odds with it being the boyfriend...taller and a lot heavier, I think. He knew the boyfriend pretty well, I think, so I don't understand this discrepancy...unless, in hindsight, he realized things were a little off. One thing that makes this case confusing, is LE keeps everything so close to the vest. From what I've read, it seems that they suspect a stalker type person, and not someone who was close to Holly. IDK what to think about this, but it seems everybody has been accounted for, and the boyfriend was simply not recognized at the grandmother's land and then went to work. If the land thing caused a big blowup, (and that's how it initially seemed), I think somebody would have said so. There seemed to be enough witnesses and phone calls back and forth, that if something dangerous had brewed, one of the people involved would have said so. Or at least, I think. Another confusing thing, is the brother assumed what Holly and the boyfriend were leaned over looking at, (JVM, show), was a dead turkey. Did he know that the boyfriend had gone hunting? Did he see the blood then or later?

CB talked with the bf the evening before wherein the bf told CB he was going hunting the next day but did not tell him where. CB stated he saw the blood when he eventually went outside, but even then, thought it was turkey blood until the neighbor showed up and told him about the screams.

 

[reedus23]

I know people disagree with me on this but I think it is a strong possibility that KB was viewed as an "overreacting mom" by CB.

My MIL is the proverbial Chicken Little. She is always worried about everything. Her children become immune to her panic. OR, imagine that you are a laid-back kinda person.

Now imagine one of those scenarios and add that you are CB, a young adult, just waking up and your mom calls: Where is your sister??
CB: **sigh** I dunno, her car is still here.
KB: What? she should have left for school already!
CB: well, she is running late.
KB: What is she doing?
CB: (glances outside) She is outside talking to boyfriend.
KB: GET YOUR GUN AND RUN OUTSIDE!!
CB: Mom, what...
KB: Go, that isn't boyfriend!
CB- But...mom..what...
(reluctantly starts going outside, trying to figure out what is happening. sees HB and man headed off into the woods as neighbor comes up drive. Starts calling HM name, but she doesn't turn around...he starts getting worried and fast)

BBM - I think you're spot on about CB's state of mind as opposed to his mom's. Of course, in this instance, with the information KB had that CB did not, she was justified in being the way she was.

 

[Xavier]

JMO
The whole thing with how the neighbor's son supposedly heard the scream, but then left the situation with his Mom was strange to me as well, but something else bothers me even more.

One thing I cannot understand is how there seemed to be automatic panic and knowing the situation was already a kidnapping situation at the school. Once the call to the school was made, it seems the panic switch was turned on, and it seemed to be known that a kidnapping had occurred. Even a call to LE to come help was also made right after the call to the school.

Because if all you knew was there was a scream and somebody was seen being led into the woods, then why would you assume the worst. It seems most people would want to assume it may have just been an argument and Holly left with someone. It seems most people would want to hope for the best, and not assume somebody had been kidnapped. There was nothing to assume that based just on the neighbor.

I kept trying to understand how all the people showed up at the house, and from the Jackson article, I think it was stated by the Mom that they started calling everybody they knew to come and help look for her. I am not sure exactly how it was stated, but from what I recall it sounded like the calling of others was done almost immediately. Maybe even during the ride from the school over to the house. I am pretty sure that LE would not call public people to the house, so it had to be family members calling others to come help. But, why??? Why so dire, and how did they know the worst had already happened when all that was known was a scream and somebody leading someone away.
Wouldn't you want to wait and talk with LE and ask them for directions on what to do before you call the whole town to come look for her? How did they know she was kidnapped?

We know there was a lot of conflicting information, so if the early reports of being "DRAGGED" away were true, that may explain it. If the brother had reported to the Mom on the phone that she was being "dragged" away, then of course that would explain the direness of it all, but that was not what was later said by the brother in later interviews. He even went as far to say "no hands touching", "they were walking", etc. in later interviews.

It is all so confusing because the only thing people have to go on are reports that did not come from LE. I really wish LE would release its own version of the events of that morning.

If we go based on the Jackson article and interviews, it seems clear that the brother did not think anything was really wrong at first. He even tried to keep people from going further in the woods to protect evidence which is kind of strange in itself becuse that should have been LE job. But we have a huge contrast of his reaction and the reaction at the school, and the panic to call others to the house to help search. On one hand, it seems we have the brother trying to stop people from going into the woods, and on the other hand, we have someone calling the whole town to come to the house to go search for her.

The whole thing is so confusing. The brother even said he called both Holly + Drews phones and let them ring out 5 times, so he assumed they were together. He made it sound like he did not think anything was too dire at first. But a total opposite reaction occurs from the Mom based solely on the call from the nieighbor. Unless more was said during the phone calls from the brother, and the public was just purposely mislead.

IMO
There is no way to get any firm answers to these types of questions unless LE provides their own version of what happened, and a release of the 911 calls would help as well.

Very good points.

IMO you're right it's so strange of their reactions.

Alot of guys I know would react somewhat calmly like the brother did.

Women, or the Mom, will react with more urgency, stress to a situation like this.

Maybe the Mom knew or heard something more than the brother did.

 

[Xavier]

The information is taken by the responding officers, verbally. I have never seen a witness sitting at the scene of a crime writing a report. I suspect there is more to the story and there was a very good reason why he was seated there. The typed report is gathered later in the investigation...with help from the officers on how to write it. They generally have to help write it for the witness due to the witness not being savvy writing these types of things. I sure would love to see his first writing. They need to get things in an orderly fashion. Many witnesses are all over the place and don't give a clear sense of what exactly was going on.

IMO Decatur County, TN strikes me like really rural areas in Ohio, where the townies, people in the community have lived there all their life and everyone knows everybody, etc.

It strikes me they're the kind of people who don't fear LE and will do whatever it takes to keep quiet, even if they know what happened. And it seems too in these areas, everyone's practically a family member or like family.

 

[MizStery]

The first alarms went off in Karen's head when CB told her that Holly was outside with her bf because at that point Karen knew it couldn't be Holly's bf that was with Holly. The bf was at grandma's property. CB didn't have reason to panic because he had not yet been told that the bf was at grandma's. So yes, I think it's pretty reasonable for him to remain unassuming and for her to start panicking at that point.

Now, we have DS and his hunting partner at the crack of dawn facing down a relative of Karen's on grandma's property. (Karen stated this call took place before dawn)The epic turkey drama is long over by the 7:00 window when KB and CB are discussing the camouflage man outside with Holly. I think the refusal to release the redacted transcript of the times of the calls that morning has been a disservice to CB. We simply do not have the cell phone times nailed down in Mr. Notak or Smooth Operators timelines to discredit CB. MOO

Many discussions have thrashed through this timeline. I want to credit the posters who since day1 have been sleuthing this tragedy. I will provide a link for anyone who wants to read just one of these:
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178917&page=37

 

[~n/t~]

Agree MizStery. There is definitely something wrong with the reported timeline. I always said it didn't make any sense. One report quoted Clint woken at 8 am. How could that be?

 

[Hatfield]

Very good points.

IMO you're right it's so strange of their reactions.

Alot of guys I know would react somewhat calmly like the brother did.

Women, or the Mom, will react with more urgency, stress to a situation like this.

Maybe the Mom knew or heard something more than the brother did.

Yeah, it just seems that something right away must have convinced the Mom that Holly was kidnapped. Whether it was some prior things that happened in Holly's life shortly before the events of that day OR whether it was based on things said during the phone calls, something made her realize it.

 

[Hatfield]

Agree MizStery. There is definitely something wrong with the reported timeline. I always said it didn't make any sense. One report quoted Clint woken at 8 am. How could that be?

IMO
I agree the reported timelines have to be taken with a grain of salt.

For me, I have been forced to treat practically everything we have been told from the interviews and articles with a grain of salt.

From the very beginning, once the stories started to change (i.e., dragged to not-dragged, turkeys added later on, kneeling added later on, Hunting at Grams added much later, etc.), I just had to begin to treat all the information with a white glove.

If all the information would have stayed consistent throughout, I would not be so sceptic of it, but the whole story evolved over time. It is hard to understand because if you want to find someone, you would think you would provide all the details and accurate info right away. So many things came out much later on, that I have to question its validity.

It is probably normal that some things would be clarified or slightly changed over time in any case, but what is not normal is the huge differences and big chunks of new information that was added to the story much later. Critical huge pieces of information were either changed or added as time went on. Even some critical items that she had with her were finally added to the story (i.e., pink purse i think). That is the type of information that may help find her, so my goodness, it is so important to have accurate and all information right from the beginning.

 

[Hatfield]

Now, we have DS and his hunting partner at the crack of dawn facing down a relative of Karen's on grandma's property. (Karen stated this call took place before dawn)The epic turkey drama is long over by the 7:00 window when KB and CB are discussing the camouflage man outside with Holly. I think the refusal to release the redacted transcript of the times of the calls that morning has been a disservice to CB. We simply do not have the cell phone times nailed down in Mr. Notak or Smooth Operators timelines to discredit CB. MOO

Many discussions have thrashed through this timeline. I want to credit the posters who since day1 have been sleuthing this tragedy. I will provide a link for anyone who wants to read just one of these:
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178917&page=37

Re: bolded part

IMO
I agree. I think from the very beginning, the local LE began to do a disservice to the family by not having their own LE spokesperson and provide the public with their version of the events and their LE statements. It was like they were using the family to do their job. During that first interview, it was obvious that the Mom did not want to provide a statement because she was very upset, but it seemed she was almost forced to get in front of the mike. All the sheriff did was cry and hand the mike over. The local LE needed a spokesperson badly.

From that point on, I feel maybe LE left the family out to dry and maybe even provided suggestions on what to say to get the heat off, but all it did was backfire and make the public more suspicous of things. The family should not have been put in that position if LE would have just done their job and provided the media information that was desparately being asked for by the media. The public wanted to help so bad, and still does, but they were never provided proper information in the proper way to assist. Nothing, Nada, etc. from LE.

It is interesting that even the family ended up getting a preacher to be their spokesperson, but LE never had a spokesperson or someone from LE that provided any official summary of the events or any facts based on LE. A good start would be for LE to officially release the dates and times and information from any 911 phone calls they received that morning.

 

[Hatfield]

I am holding out hope that this case will be resolved. I see one of 3 ways it could be resolved, assuming she is no longer with us.

The simplest way would be if the perp somehow lets his concious or spriitual beliefs convince him to do the right thing and tell the truth and take whatever punishment he deserves.

Another way would be if the perp did get help in disposing of the body, then this other person(s) who helped may finally listen to his concious and tell all he knows because he is tired of keeping this secret. If this person only assisted with disposal, then his sentence should be lighter, and if he makes a deal, he actually could get a fairly light sentence if he agrees to testify against the perp.

The final way would be for LE to finally find her body. I just saw a recent crime case on TV where LE found the body, and then immediately charged a person before anlayzing anything. It was like LE needed the body to charge the person. Even though they already had a person in their sights, they had to wait to find the body before any charges were filed. Not sure if LE has someone in their sights, but finding the body is critical if the person is not going to come forward and confess.

Those are the 3 ways I see it getting resolved, so I am holding out hope there is a resolution someday.