TX TX - Julie Moseley, 9, Mary Trlica, 17, Lisa Wilson, 14, Fort Worth, 23 Dec 1974 #8

[tilomagnet]

Agreed, its very possible the cuprit(s) made Rachel write the letter.

 

[PGHJW]

Just like with The Springfield Three I think it's time to stop looking at boogeymen and focus on those who've been involved in telling the story (or as we like to say in this day and age -- narrative) for decades. Nothing has been figured out looking at shadowy figures who may or may not have been lurking. In The Springfield Three you literally have a group of people, a few in particular, who could tell us basically whatever we want about the girls last hours and we've believed it since that's all there is to go on. I'd say there's a tad more than that here but it isn't entirely different. In each case three females go missing. The killer evil boogeymen don't want to get caught -- they want to do what they've set out to do and get away. They aren't going to risk controlling three. Could there have been more than one person? Sure, we don't know. But again, looking at the monsters roaming Ft. Worth has gotten zilch for half a century.

In these two cases and likely even more it's time to go back to square one. Look at the Texarkana brother and sister. I'd never seen the father's name brought up as a suspect yet he gave so much of the timeline. Look who did it, after all...

The problem with so many of the amateur and professional "investigations" into these things is that it seems that both armchair Jessica Fletcher's and agencies both want to throw some unknown monster's name out there and decide that he "looks good" for it. Makes it real easy for the real culprit to get away.

 

[beubeubeu]

Now there's an interesting thought!
ETA: It would take someone very devious to pull a stunt like that!
jmo

Not really.
It would be some next level machiavelian scheming plan IF perp/s started from 0 to "how to abduct these three/two girls or one of them".
But what more do we know than nothing?
We dont know what happened after they picked up jeans from AN store. We dont know what they knew or what they were told.

Lets say they were on their way to the mall.
Stopped somewhere, learned that their friend (lets say Renee's and Rachel's) decided to run away from home and is currently in Houston.
Person who told them that told them that theyre going there but they would have a better chances as group of friends.
Cause of some factors girls would feel that they really have to go there and talk him/her out of that madness. Felt that they HAVE to act urgent and cant tell anyone to not cause that friend a trouble before they got a chance to talk to them.
Quick plan: Rachel writes a note and puts it into mailbox, cause hurry up, hurry up, Houston is few hours away!
And cause they already have that appointment with other girls in the mall, they intend to drop Julie there and go, but something happened and they didnt. Or they felt thats so important that they cant risk Julie saying too much about it so they have to take her with them.

Im not betting much on that scenario, but something somewhat similar happening couldnt be ruled out either. That they went to another car under assumption that theyre going to Houston. Maybe even the person who took or attempted to drive them there didnt realized that they wont ever come back.

Too long of a post while the only thing I really wanted to say was that there could be circumstances in which Rachel would write the note under a lot of stress - and that excuse, reasoning, these circumstances didnt have to be completely made up. More even, in that random example I came up with it could be Rachel who felt the need to write the note to avoid leaving everyone without the slightest clue where they are. No stunt, no scheming, no planning to frame Tommy on the perps side. Just a thing that happened as consequence of luring story they provided... or maybe even genuine story (to some point? as a whole?) and only after that an accident or something sinister happened.

 

[beubeubeu]

What frustrates me is that the people who should've known Rachel's handwriting best were inconsistent in their statements, although supposedly providing the FBI with  stacks of writing samples. Then the FBI reportedly couldn't decide whether Rachel wrote the letter either. I have always found all that highly suspicious. I've even wondered whether the FBI's 'inconclusive' report was part of the cover-up. It just doesn't make sense to me that even the FBI with all their tools and expertise failed to glean anything useful. And now, 50+ years later, we don't even know whether the letter still exists. I feel a LOT of effort has gone into perpetuating confusion regarding that letter. jmo

If they couldnt decide if she may write it or not, it means that they couldnt confidently say that theyre certain/almost certain that Rachel DID NOT write it. Maybe cause her handwriting was indeed similar. Maybe cause it wasnt different enough to confidently rule out a possibility that under some strange circumstances her handwriting could look like that.

 

[beubeubeu]

They aren't going to risk controlling three. Could there have been more than one person? Sure, we don't know.

More often than not they wont risk that. Yet many of perps did. No shortage of killers like that, and even more rapists and kidnappers.
Just my impression but for me it seems that with these long cold then solved cases of multiple victims reveal itself to have a single perp with earlier assumptions that it just has to be at least two.

 

[jetsfanjohn]

Just like with The Springfield Three I think it's time to stop looking at boogeymen and focus on those who've been involved in telling the story (or as we like to say in this day and age -- narrative) for decades.

RSBM.

Well the story/narrative for the last 50 years is that disappeared from the parking lot of the mall. I don't rule that out, but I would have my doubts.
JMO, I think the sighting at Rachel's House (Minot) at around 12.30/1.00pm, would have been after they returned from the Mall...if they ever even went there in the first place.