it doesnt make sense.. that this was a catfishing case yet le came out right at the beginning and denied strongly with the family the presence of any online connection ..after examining the devices.. cause you can go back in time and see they did say that
another would say ..sure they were lying to protect the investigation..I dont even why is that a thing that is possible..
hmm its been 5 years and you still have nothing...
a simpler explanation would be.. that this creep was investigated by them years ago and now they are embarrassed by their failure to expose his danger..as his trial was about to begin and the media caught this info.. depressing but makes more sense ?
I think both things can be true -- this is about catfishing and there's no (direct) online connection to the girls' social media/devices -- because it may well be about catfishing, but neither of these two girls was the target. Another child may have unwittingly disclosed the destination/intention/location of her friends.
A and L might not have expected to meet
anyone that day. But a scary adult had every intention to meet them. And far, far worse.
I assume we've only heard a broken snippet of the audio recorded that day. I imagine LE holding portions back, for investigative reasons.
I won't be surprised if ultimately we learn how the girls were manipulated into captivity. A simple request for help, guys, down the hill....
It takes a special (wicked) kind of perpetrator (if it turns out there was one and only one) to incapacitate two victims.
I watch Criminal Minds. (So I'm an expert of -- let me see -- nothing.) What I've seen, to control two individuals, the threat is real. A weapon held to one individual, for instance, might secure absolute (and understandable) control over the second -- sheer terror but no scream, full compliance because the other's very life might depend on it.
It's horrifying to imagine what happened that day, made all the worse by that possible overlap in the park, by the perpetrator leaving and the father arriving.
Help was so close --
Devastating.
JMO