Chris's job had him outside the home most of the week....Shanann did travel to conventions for her job but I understand from Shanann that the trips were planned around the kids and at a time when Chris would be home to watch after their children. My last conversations with Shanann while she was in NC had absolutely no indication that there was trouble in paradise for them. There was, however, ongoing contention with her in laws, specifically with his mother and his sister, and their continued nonacceptance of Shanann and her and Chris's decision to move to CO. One of the children had a birthday party while they were in NC...Chris's mother and sister were both invited and neither showed up to celebrate the day... to me that is suspect in itself. More over, when Shanann visited with her girls (prior to the birthday party and without Chris during her stay in NC) at her mother-n-laws home, with her inlaws being beyond aware that the girls had celeriac / critical food-nut allergies her mother n law and sister n law did what the could to offer foods to the girls that would be detrimental to them, including leaving nuts out in reach of the girls to attain for themselves, doing what they could to undermine Shanann at every opportunity. Shanann told me that with that she would not take her girls back to her mother n laws home without Chris present for her children's safety. I can not blame her for that at all, I would do the same if I had been in her shoes. Mind you I was told this in confidence, however, with her and the girls missing I believe a clearly painted picture is appropriate. Nothing about Chris in everything she told me in our long weekly conversations while she was here in NC and my meeting him before they left screamed danger to me. It is my opinion that his wife and girls are his entire world. My prayers to him and their families that Shanann, Cece and Bella return home safe and sound and in short order. Let no stone go un-turned in the search for these precious souls.
