Culmination of several days' thoughts--
After re-watching the unedited video, I am again struck by the strength of EA’s accent and language-acquisition indicators—the articles and prepositions seem more consistent with someone who is newer to English than what we seem to know of him.
If the family has ‘insulated’ themselves linguistically, their community involvement (accion aside, of course) would probably be centered around common language, too, and the closer to the mother-tongue mother-land, the better. Was it Honduras?
This may be why we’ve not been able to dig up too much when church and community participation have been pondered-- maybe it’s a cultural nucleus that we can’t quite access.
A reluctance to publicly condemn is not the same thing as proclaiming his innocence, and there are several limiting factors with regard to presenting alternatives to his exclusive guilt. As has been mentioned, the sleuthing guidelines is the biggie right now, but it is understandable why they’re in place, and I like that we are doing our best to be respectful of the TOS.
As we generate ideas and theories, one thing to continue to keep in mind is the overall behavior of LE and clues which can be obtained from an absence of words and behavior, rather than by what is presented.
If they thought this was a random/stranger abduction, how might things be different? What are things that we might see in the media and directly from the police force?
What we have NOT seen speaks volumes…
(IMO, IMO, IMO)