Read some of the replies today so far:
-I don't think he met up with someone on Evening Lights and left with them. . .as in he was running away from his life to start a new one. Would that not mean that somebody else would also be missing? Girl, guy, woman, man, etc. . .somebody else would be missing. And I have checked missing persons reports for Las Vegas. . .nothing that really jumps out at me. I guess it could be somebody from outside the area but once again. . .why meet on THAT street? If it's somebody from out of town, they could meet in a casino parking garage. I guess somebody could have picked Steven up and are helping him secretly. . .but for a month? That might work for a week but when you have all of these people looking for Steven eventually somebody's conscience is going to kick in. I think. And I can't think of a situation off the top of my head where somebody hid somebody in those kind of circumstances. On top of that, a person can get in serious trouble doing that. . .especially if Steven is eventually declared dead. This idea that Steven met with someone and they went off together to start anew just does not fly to me and it would be the first of its kind.
-People who fake their own deaths and disappearances rarely get away with it. Most people who disappear vanish because of a crime committed against them. People with much better contacts, means, financial situations, etc. have tried to disappear and got caught. I suppose Steven could get "lucky" but the odds are very, very, very low that he could craft his own disappearance and get away with it given his situations. . .financial and otherwise.
-I did a search on Google with the words "Las Vegas" and "car was found" and "2009" and "disappeared". There was not one. . .not one!. . .disappearance like this in Vegas in 2009. I was surprised. Whereas, Steven's case popped up several hundred times. In fact, in my research the only recent case that comes close to the circumstances of Steven's was Trevor Morse. He got dropped off in a shopping mall by a taxi. Told the taxi driver he was waiting for someone. He stood out in front of a store for a while like he was waiting for someone. Then walked off camera and was never heard from again. Where he disappeared was not near Evening Lights but it happened, once again, in a very similar place. . .an upper middle class part of Vegas. So, Steven's particular circumstances are unique to Las Vegas.
-I am trying to wonder what we would all think if the video cameras did not catch Steven on tape. I don't believe Steven knew the cameras were there, especially camera #1. Would we not think that someone besides him dropped that car off there now that we know he disappeared? Probably. In fact, I think we are all surprised given the circumstances that Steven was proven to leave his own car there. In addition, the only reason we would know that Steven was there would be because of the white SUV. But, without the cameras, the police would have probably not known the white SUV was there, on top of the issue of whethere the driver of the SUV would have remembered Steven on the street or not. Just going through some mental gymnastics here. . .
-I know this may be a given but I really believe Steven stopped on Evening Lights. Nobody saw him walking down that other street that is at the end of Evening Lights, right? And it's noon on a Sunday! People going places. Going to church. Even in that minute of a tape we see the white SUV. So, there had to be more cars riding around that neighborhood at the time and I guess nobody else saw him walking. So, his walking journey ended on Evening Lights, that day, at that time. That may sound simplistic but no one saw him on any other street and that is a long. . .the long way. . .walk up to Anthem if he was looking to catch a bus and leave his life.
I am sticking by my assertion: He was lured there and whoever did it had bad motives.
