Just a couple of things: (turned out to be more things than I thought!)
* Post number #569 has a link to "48 Hours"
with 54 family pics. They are such a great look into his family. His brother, father, and baby sister all seem to get along lovingly with each other --- lots of laughs, hugs, and fun activities. Every photo shows how involved they are with each other, no-one left out, no distance between them (anyone remember the movie "Ordinary People" where a snapshot showed mom/dad/son standing stiffly distanced, not touching, etc.)
* Jason Gates (LE in charge) seems like a smart, caring man -- a good man with integrity. He said things that interested me... I may sure be wrong but if, say, a psychiatrist is asked if so-and-so is his patient and he says "no", OK then, he can answer the question and the person is not his patient. If he says, "You know I can't answer that question, patient confidentiality, etc....." then it sounds to me like that person just
might be a patient of his.
*SO --- when Jason Gates was asked if searchers had found any transient camps in the woods (
http://www.katu.com/home/video/95822899.html), he said "I can't comment on that".
*He also can't release whether Kyron was actually ever in the classroom at any time that morning. Why is that so important? What would that give away about the investigation? Can anyone see a reason for that? The best I can do is think LE doesn't want to get an inattentive or busy teacher in trouble, or that something transpired (another student wanting to fight, or a teacher disciplining him for talking in class?)
*The way J. Gates spoke of the criminal background checks LE was doing made it clear that he didn't want to freak out any parents or staff who might have a criminal background, which made me think that some did. (Out of all those people it would make sense statistically.)
*Why not release the name of the person who reported seeing Kyron later than 8:45 at the SW door? Was it because that sighting was a red herring? To lead LE away from something that might have happened in another part of the building? I have no idea if they used the dogs inside the school, or if that is even feasible with the amount of traffic a school has!
*Why would a child wait
at that particular door where a car couldn't pull right up to it? It would be a difficult door from which to see someone arriving in a car. Since it faces the field, it almost seems like the door where you'd meet another young person. Someone without a car, someone 8 YO-16 YO or so? Although there are windows everywhere on that side of the school, it seems like a way to head into the woods....
Like others have said, in addition to the activity generated by the science fair, I just get the feeling it's specifically related to the science fair --- as others have posted, maybe another young person offered to show him where red-eyed frogs could be found; or someone who was jealous and enraged by his having done such an amazingly good project lured him out. Don't know if they found his scent near that exit...
*An alternate thought is that at 50 pounds, an adult male he knew well could carry him off on his shoulders! But someone would have HAD to see that!
* A babysitter was mentioned way back in one of the first threads. Also, I think some kind of after-school lessons were mentioned in terms of his mom transporting him there?
* The photos seem to show he idolized his older brother and I wouldn't be surprised, as posted already, that the shirts he wore (although they all looked new) were hand-me-downs, or shirts his brother got him --- the t-shirts were cool.
