TX TX - Lina Sardar Khil, 3, last seen on playground @ apartment complex, San Antonio, 20 Dec 2021

[Cryptic]

Yup, I'd be shocked if this wasn't a sexually motivated crime. The chief referenced the fact that the longer this goes on, the less likely a positive outcome.

I know they've gone door to door, but I wouldn't be surprised if she was still in one of those apartments.

I agree. Building on the possibility that the girl was lured (as opposed to grabbed), the perpetrator would need to speak her language.

There are several It might be worth going door to door again with a profile based on the following. Of course, no profile is absolute, but its a start:

- Afghan male at home at that time. Ages 15-55.

- Male in question also speaks the missing girls language. Afghanistan has several languages. Language is usually, but not always, associated with ethnicity. At a glance, the girl looks Tajik to me. But.... European appearances are fairly common in other groups too.

- Any inconsistencies regarding a male's previous contact with the girl, whether or not they were at school / work at the time are referred to a departmental lawyer and legally minded detective(s). If lawyer Oks it, detective cranks out warrant request.

- Search warrant requests are then faxed to a judge who has asked to be on emergency standby. Ideally, the warrants get signed and served Jimmy Johns fast.

 

[Dark_Light]

Double post :/

 

[Dark_Light]

This poor sweet girl. This is a mother’s nightmare. You think they’re safe, they’re in your apartment complex, other people are there, you think you can leave for a minute to grab something you forgot, take a phone call…and just like that, your little one is gone. Our kids aren’t safe.
I watch my littles like a hawk. I can’t help it. I read about too many tragedies.

I used to live a couple blocks from here on the same road and its a terrible area. Not the worst, but not where you leave kids out of your site for any amount of time. Of course, its a far cry better than where she came from. Poor girl

 

[sds71]

Parents worried about safety of their own children after Lina Kihl, 3, vanished from playground

 

[swanniee11]

Do we know if Lina speaks English? I'm reading she could be between the ages of 3-6. Is she with anyone else other then family? FYI, not expecting answers.

 

[Friday Fan]

I really don't want this to be an abduction, but I can't think of any scenario where this ends well.

If Lina did wander away along a path, are there any bodies of water nearby that she might have been attracted to and a tragedy occurred there?

Also, I'm confused about where she actually disappeared from. I've read playground at the apartment. I've read dog park.

There are no bodies of water that were not checked. There are a few pools. USAA has a few ponds and fountains, but it has gates and fences all over the place, so there is no way she could have gotten in there. I'm sure they were all checked.
It's San Antonio. There really aren't natural bodies of water around here.

I have not seen this "dog park"...I don't think it's very big....
I bet her mom had told her to stay away from the dog park (Dirty shoes)

 

[MassGuy]

Do we know if Lina speaks English? I'm reading she could be between the ages of 3-6. Is she with anyone else other then family? FYI, not expecting answers.

It's so frustrating not to have a solid age or height and weight.

If she is 3, then she absolutely isn't 4 feet tall and 55 pounds. Both things cannot be true at the same time.

She's either 6 and the height and weight are about right, or she's 3 and those things are way off.

 

[InvisibleMe]

@MassGuy agree but I also think if she actually did walk down some path, could she be lost somewhere? I'm sick just talking about this.

Yes! I could not agree more.

 

[Beans]

It's so frustrating not to have a solid age or height and weight.

If she is 3, then she absolutely isn't 4 feet tall and 55 pounds. Both things cannot be true at the same time.

She's either 6 and the height and weight are about right, or she's 3 and those things are way off.

Or it’s a combination of the details they had on file for her when she arrived (if it was 2019, 3 years of age could be right) and an estimate of her current weight and height?

 

[Friday Fan]

Or it’s a combination of the details they had on file for her when she arrived (if it was 2019, 3 years of age could be right) and an estimate of her current weight and height?

That's what I think

 

[Friday Fan]

It's so frustrating not to have a solid age or height and weight.

If she is 3, then she absolutely isn't 4 feet tall and 55 pounds. Both things cannot be true at the same time.

She's either 6 and the height and weight are about right, or she's 3 and those things are way off.

Her age is not on the FBI poster.

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/lina-sardar-khil/download.pdf

 

[Beans]

That's what I think

Yeah, I think there was probably a tremendous panic at the very start with all sorts of language obstacles. If they sought help from the building management and/or refugee organisation you can see how different parties could have picked up snippets of info from different places and patched them together.

LE would have been in a rush to get info out, media the same.

That said, while I hope the confusion about the circumstances comes from the same sort of language related difficulties, I suppose I should retain a tiny smidgen of cynicism and remember that confusion would also benefit any perp. At this point it’s impossible to know if all the stories sit straight. Hopefully LE have a firm handle on all of that, even if the rest of us don’t!

 

[Unalienable Rights]

It's so frustrating not to have a solid age or height and weight.

If she is 3, then she absolutely isn't 4 feet tall and 55 pounds. Both things cannot be true at the same time.

She's either 6 and the height and weight are about right, or she's 3 and those things are way off.

There are two questions I kept expecting to hear at the press conferences....for the age, height, weight discrepancy to be clarified, and whether or not Lina speaks and / or understands English. Since LE hasn't volunteered the information, I'm surprised that a reporter hasn't asked.

 

[MassGuy]

Her age is not on the FBI poster.

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/lina-sardar-khil/download.pdf

Which is weird, as that's standard information. I just looked through several FBI missing children's posters, and all have DOB.

 

[Beans]

There are two questions I kept expecting to hear at the press conferences....for the age, height, weight discrepancy to be clarified, and whether or not Lina speaks and / or understands English. Since LE hasn't volunteered the information, I'm surprised that a reporter hasn't asked.

I wondered about that when the father was interviewed. There has been no attempt to change the official story or correct info. I assume that’s because they’d prefer people were focusing on what she looks like and the fact she’s missing, rather than getting all caught up in the details or wondering why nothing sits straight. They probably don’t have time to sit explaining the context or logistics of interpreters and recording details of refugees etc. Fuzzy stories get people’s backs up, and in this case the fuzziness could be entirely innocent.

Sometimes it just makes these things even more confusing when you try to explain them.

 

[Knox]

“The little girl that was here. She was playing right here when I came home from work,” Santana Jackson said. “She was in a red dress.”

Jackson is a mom of three and frequently saw her neighbor, Lina, playing outside.

“This little girl plays with my 3-year-old, (Cora),” Jackson said.

While they wait for more information on how a child vanished from a gated property. Jackson wants the apartment complex to put up security cameras throughout the area.
Parents worried about safety of their own children after Lina Khil, 3, vanished from playground

Guess that answers our question on whether there were cameras within the complex.

 

[Beans]

It’s a shame they don’t mention what time the neighbour came home from work.

 

[Knox]

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The FBI has also reached out to the Islamic Center of San Antonio.

“They’re making sure that if we hear (or) know of anything, we contact law enforcement, because we may hear it through the grapevine,” Martin said.
Parents worried about safety of their own children after Lina Khil, 3, vanished from playground

 

[Unalienable Rights]

“The little girl that was here. She was playing right here when I came home from work,” Santana Jackson said. “She was in a red dress.”

Jackson is a mom of three and frequently saw her neighbor, Lina, playing outside.

“This little girl plays with my 3-year-old, (Cora),” Jackson said.

While they wait for more information on how a child vanished from a gated property. Jackson wants the apartment complex to put up security cameras throughout the area.
Parents worried about safety of their own children after Lina Khil, 3, vanished from playground

Guess that answers our question on whether there were cameras within the complex.

This same neighbor also said (in the video) that the complex has changed since she moved in 6 months ago, and she doesn't want to renew her lease. She said that there have been strange people coming in there that she doesn't recognize, and that because of that, management now has a 7:00 pm curfew for children to be outside.

 

[Friday Fan]

This same neighbor also said (in the video) that the complex has changed since she moved in 6 months ago, and she doesn't want to renew her lease. She said that there have been strange people coming in there that she doesn't recognize, and that because of that, management now has a 7:00 pm curfew for children to be outside.

6 months is a short time. It was going downhill when she moved in. It's been going downhill for a long time.

ETA: San Antonio has received several thousand new Afghan refugees in the past 6 months. They are all housed in a few specific apartment complexes within a few square miles. The area is a Middle East community. The influx of new people could also mean change that the neighbor does not feel comfortable with. I really can't read much into her comment.