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Yes,useless wheel spining..
But I can't help myself..
Me either, Peg.
I do think it will all come out eventually, though. It's not a very complicated case, imo (although it is a bizarre one). Lots of mistakes made along the way.
If we assume that either one or both of the B's did intend to implement the phony kidnapping story (and it was not by fluke that the ransom note was discovered) I share your opinion, NMS, that the purpose was to place the focus elsewhere.I think the intent, after killing Zahra, was simply to get the focus off of them. In order to do that one would have to claim or point toward an abductor. To think that an abductor risked coming into a home, while the parents were asleep, to take a child, not only Zahra's age but a child who had to hop out of the house (not wearing the prosthetic...) or be carried, so not to wake the parents, + take the prosthetic with them - For what purpose? Sexual? Not believable. Simply wouldn't fly as a sexual predator could have chosen 100 other easier targets. I think AB and EB realized this - after - and had to come up with a different/more plausable motive - Kidnapping for ransom/mistaken identity. Still, not much of an improvement but it had a little more chance of being believable than the former idea. JMO ~ at the moment.
I think the ransom note was just pulled out of their rear ends in a panic. However, I can see EB envisioning how the community would surround her and support her and there would be numerous fundraisers for them, etc. etc. for the poor family whose child went missing.