I'm keeping things grouped together to slim down my reply. Again, work is really cutting into my sleuthing time. But it rained today, so I was able to catch up again. I'm going to pre-apologize for the length and the massacre of the English language. I seem to have forgotten the rules of grammar and punctuation.
Just on this..
Is it popular consensus on here that the girls were removed and then brought back in the middle of the night? I am wondering how this could of happened? Although LE called off the search, I am sure family and friends were still driving and walking around (I did question this on a thread many moons ago)? Could someone of brought two bodies and left them in this area in the dark of the night?
Really? Walking the woods at nighttime?
Please someone show me an example of a crime in which the victim is taken from the scene, murdered/attacked elsewhere, and then returned to the abduction scene to be discovered later. Risking that someone is already searching for the missing teenagers and would see them being dumped. Risking being caught by taking them back to the scene of abduction...
If this has EVER happened, I'll eat crow. Otherwise....nah. JMO!
I have mixed feelings on whether they were removed and returned. I realize they were looking for live girls when they were searching, so maybe they were just hurriedly walking all over the place, but I still think it would be awfully hard to miss two bodies, even in the dark, unless they were camouflaged in some fashion. Leaves aren't overly fluffy this time of year after laying on the ground decomposing all winter. Admittedly, I have no idea how they were found, so it's a possibility.
I don't buy into the two different obituary dates being a date missing vs date found choosing. But I'm not sure if one survived for a while or if one was murdered later. If one was murdered later, is it possible only one girl was taken from the scene and then returned later? I don't think it's possible one girl would have been found the first night and the other not found until the second day, but the later timing of the 2nd day search has always been interesting to me. This is most likely my brain trying to come up with any possible different scenarios after 2 hours of sleep last night sitting in a $20 desk chair and then a massive caffeine binge all day that has me wired at midnight.
Seems like he could have really used $250,000. If he knows, why wouldn't he be working with LE to solve this? Reasons he would not bust the perps?
Illinois Missing - Fear of being considered an accomplice.
Ocgrad - Fear of having a family member killed in revenge.
Why take the risk and leave RL alive? The person or persons showed no compunction about murdering two young girls. Why leave someone alive in a remote farm when you could easily off him as well? No witnesses.
However, my flabber is truly ghasted that anyone seriously thinks these investigators are knowingly implicating an innocent man while they let the real killer(s) skip off into the sunset unscathed.
BBM-These two things, IMO, could both be answered with the same suspect. A friend/family member of RL. He wouldn't want to turn them in, and they wouldn't want to kill him.
It was a quote from police that said he was being moved to Clinton Co. for his own safety.
For whatever that is worth.
At this point I think it's all equine excrement. I am over the word dancing. Say what you mean and dadgum it, mean what you say.
This is directed at LE, not any posters here.
I'm curious if RL was having problems with someone in particular that was already in the pokey before he was arrested, or if someone was arrested or going to be arrested the day he was moved? Did anyone notice any interesting arrests the day RL was transferred and maybe the day before and after? Anyone that RL could have ratted out?
Or is this some weird play by LE to keep people talking about RL in hopes that someone associated with him won't let him go down for the murders or wouldn't want RL coming to harm (again possibly that whole friend/family connection).
I've always thought he looked middle aged too. Wondering why they haven't included that in the FBI link
I don't think they are going to formally exclude anyone, just to avoid the potential scenario where they say a suspect is between 40 and 50 years old and someone has a suspect that is 38 or 51. I guess they could expand the age range, but then they just look like they are throwing out wild guesses. Someone between 30 and 60 doesn't really narrow it down at all.
