Thanks for being here and helping Oriah. I want to summarize a bit because it might be helpful:
1. Mom and dad knew each other 14 years. Julia was 14 or 15 when they met. They were married in 2003 and were married for 6 years. They are not yet totally divorced, but they have been litigating custody for over a year.
2. Dad claims he filed for divorce and custody because in the last year of marriage, his wife became very mentally unstable and it escalated until he realized she was a danger to the children. She responded with a series of ever escalating accusations over time against him, stating he was abusive to her, caused bruises on the kids after separation and later put his finger in their daughter's "pee pee" after separation, during visits.
3. Mom recorded her daughter screaming and crying during custody exchanges with the dad. Many of us felt the mom was whipping her daughter into a frenzy in an attempt to cause hysteria with her comments in front of the daughter. Mom published her audio online for everyone to hear:
http://juliabiryukova.blogspot.com/
4. Dad responded with a must read declaration. In it, he details mom's progressive illness and states he took LDTs with CPS which prove he did not bruise the kids or molest the daughter. He states that mom's extensive psych records should be examined. Those records appear to have been examined by the court and a child custody evaluator, later on. Dad begs the court to protect the kids or something bad could happen:
http://images.bimedia.net/documents/Decl+of+Solomon+Metalwala.pdf
5. A restraining order apparently was issued against the father and the child custody evaluator stated that while mom was severely mentally ill, it did not stop her from being an effective parent. As a result of mom's allegations, and possibly the alienation of his daughter by mom, dad has not seen the kids in 10 months.
6. Mom and dad undergo an 11 hour mediation and finally agree on custody which would allow dad every other weekend, unsupervised visitation. That was 11-1-11. Two days later, Julia states she wants to back out of the agreement.
7. On 11-6-11, Sky is reported missing after mom said her car ran out of gas on the way to the hospital to take her sick baby in. She claims she left her baby in the car and did not lock all the doors. She walked with her 4 year old to a gas station where she called a friend to pick her up.
8. There were closer hospitals she could have taken Sky to. She also passed a school and a church and wandered, according to LE, in an upscale residential area, without asking anyone for help.
9. Contrary to earlier reports, she did have her wallet with her, insurance info, credit cards. But she did not take her purse or her phone.
10. The gas station had no gas at the time she went to it. Police found no gas can at the car when they arrived and they determined the car had 2.2 gallons of gas in it, it started right up and they later determined it had no apparent mechanical problems. We have just discovered it is her brother's car, not Julia's.
11. The friend Julia called picked her up as she made her way back to the car where she claimed to have left Sky. The friend was shocked to not see Sky with her. The police were called when they found Sky was not in the car.
12. Dogs found no scent of Sky outside the car.
13. The name of the friend who picked her up matches the name of a lady who wrote declarations in support of Julia's custody requests, earlier. Reports are that she took a LDT with LE and passed.
14. LE reports that mom admits she has left the children alone for long periods on more than one occasion. Both parents were arrested for leaving Sky alone in the car in winter, when he was 3 months old, for 55 minutes, while in Target. They claimed he was sleeping. They were forced to take parenting classes and do community service. Dad says he learned a huge lesson from this and cannot understand why mom would do it ever again.
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LE reports that none besides mom saw Sky in the two weeks prior to the report of his disappearance.
16. They checked the trash room in her complex. LE denies checking landfills.
17. Mom, through her attorney, asked the court to place the daughter in dad's custody rather than foster care, at a recent juvenile dependency court hearing. The court denied the request and kept M in foster care with visitation to dad and none to mom. There will be further hearings.
18. Some of us felt there was something off with Julia's flikr account and FB account. She loves Justin Bieber and had tons of photos of her young daughter on FB but none of Sky, except her profile. One of her friends reported to LE that her FB changed when Sky went missing. Some of us felt her flikr account dramatically favored her daughter over Sky. I am crazy, so I counted. Her flikr, before the recent update (yesterday?), had, counting only those dating to after Sky was born, not including before, 714 photos of M, 362 of Sky, 449 with only M and 107 with only Sky. Rcently, there has been a ton of activity with several new photos added. One, an atypical scenery only photo which shows the marina and Mount Tacoma (or Tahoma?) in the background, was uploaded yesterday, IIRC, and then taken off the account again later:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/metalwala
19. Mom spoke to LE quite a bit the day Sky was reported missing. But since then, she only answered questions through her attorney and now her attorney is not returning calls. She allowed LE to search the car and her apartment but refused to take a LDT. Dad took two. The first was inconclusive but his attorney states it was because he had not had sleep for two or three days and was exhausted. The second, we don't know the results. LE won't release them and neither dad nor his attorney have discussed them. Dad has been in the news, searching for Sky and handing out flyers. No one has heard from or seen Julia.
20. Mom's attorney reports that she is devastated, Her brother states she is upset. Her mom has not said much although an article states she sent em-ails to a reporter. They are somewhat odd emails:
http://www.thenewtakhoman.com/111411.html
21. Mom may have been on a sugar daddy site since separation, seeking a sugar daddy who would pay her 3,000 to 5,000 per month:
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/website-says-biryukova-seeking-sugar-daddy/nFdmJ/
22. LE searched a park near the apartment of the mother, to no avail:
http://www.king5.com/news/cities/se...-centered-around-Marymoor-Park-133742428.html
23. Dad immigrated here from Pakistan. He is a Christian. He went to high school here. Mom immigrated here from Russia, IIRC, when she was 13. She is Ukranian and a Christian. Her parents divorced in the 90's and Julia was apparently a part of the litigation as a "juvenile respondent" declaration was filed in their case, with her named as that juvenile.
I hope you can get something from the above that will help in mapping and searches!
) and it is very much about controlling how things are. I don't foresee her burying her son in some random place and forgetting about it, from an ocd perspective.. IF he is no longer alive and she disposed of him, he is either in a place she methodically prepared to be suitable OR she will not be able to rest and will go "check" on him wherever he is, both to punish herself and to verify he is still where she left him (control) or to possibly relocate him.
