Why wait 3 days to report your son missing?....
1. He's not missing, he's running, and they know it.
2. He's been gone for days at a time on previous hiking excursions, so this wasn't unusual until Friday. (Curious to know if there is a history of this)
3. He went "hiking" and didn't come back, they suspect he's running, and want to give him a head start.
Am I missing a scenario?
I'm trying to wrap my head around why they wouldn't be concerned about him missing in this environment until 3 days after he left.
Why pick up the car, but not notify police he was missing then? Why pick up the car at all? If you are trying to cover for him, why not leave it there? Why point LE to this location at all after taking the car, unless they believed by then he was long gone?
If they really went to the car because they were concerned about him and then saw the note left on it, why not report it then? It doesn't make sense unless running was either a plan they knew about OR strongly suspected.
Am I missing a scenario that doesn't point to his parents giving him time to run?[/QUO
Yes. I think you are missing a scenario. A number of them.
Like if BL simply said he wants to take a walk in the preserved, a place he often visited, was familiar with the area, and a place that gave him great comfort. What would his parents have done? Physically restrained him? Called LE on the spot? He was perfectly legally allowed to go anywhere anytime. I would guess they would not have wanted him out and about, given the PR storm out there, but really, what to do?
Then he doesn’t come back. So what to do? Call police then? Or drive out there to closest parking lot for entry to preserves. They see his career there, so it verifies that he at least went there. Note on car saying it needs to be removed according to the laws in place. So at some point, they bring back car and notify LE because they know he’s not in good state of mind with public uproar about GP. And then News of her body is released which brings things to Real spotlight where press is camped out watching every move. Remember, no one watching Laundrie’s house till then. We don’t even know when Or whether BL there. Certainly no one reported him driving off with Mustang and there is disagreement as to when Mustang. was there and exactly when it left driveway and when it came back.
so, Laundries got scared enough to call the cops and report son in distraught state missing. Afraid he’d kill self or someone might harm him or he is i bad enough mental state to have an accident in that wilderness.
It is possible parents telling truth. Also, BL might have left Car at preserved and had friend take him elsewhere like a bus depot or somewhere to hide out. Parents may or may not know. We really don’t know much. Just that Mustang was at preserves and brought back, and BL no longer in parents home as of LE search of premises
