Just catching up from the previous thread and I wanted to touch on a couple of things that were mentioned.
There are attempted stranger abductions probably every day in the US, several just in Iowa lately alone. Odds are that eventually there are going to be some successful ones. So it’s not outside the realm of possibility that this was a complete stranger abduction.
Regarding the stopping of volunteer searches. It must be a huge task for LE to co-ordinate volunteer searches, especially when there are over a thousand people willing to sign up and help. LE spend most of their time checking people in, co-ordinating transportation, water and just generally taking care of, supervising and training volunteers. Not that the efforts over the weekend weren’t a huge success but I can’t see them being able to keep that up for days on end. And it appears that they covered the areas to the east and south of the lake where there were secluded roads that a local perp could have travelled to. And I believe they covered the areas to the north on their own in subsequent days.
If you look at the map, it is not that easy for a perp to exit and re enter the highway to abduct a child or children from that location. And considering that the highway was under construction and was likely bumper to bumper traffic, it would make no sense for a perp to try to do this. But a local perp might just take his victims to a secluded area known to them. And LE have been pretty good at co-ordinating searches of those areas it seems. That’s really all a volunteer search team can cover as was pointed out. They can’t go door to door or trespass on personal property.
And LE needed to free up people to start searching in populated areas. Going door to door and interviewing people. Follow up on tips etc. Which they appear to be doing now. So I do think they’ve done an awful lot besides focus on the lake.
Now if a perp or perps did get back on that highway, I’d think they would have done so outside the construction zone. Does anyone know how far that zone stretches? And if that is the case, then those poor girls could be anywhere right now.
MOO
