I know I am a wet blanket, as a natural pessimist in these types of crimes...but am wondering why so many people feel she is being "stashed", when to me, the only difference between this and so many other abductions of women who were raped and killed, is that someone saw it happen? If not for that, we'd simply have a young woman who had vanished and was either found or not, sometime later on. And usually, it turns out to be an ex or some kind of an obsessed stalker.
What seems different here, to so many?
Of course I hope she is alive, and more, not being tortured or abused, but I just can't find reasons to believe this is the case, other than she has not been found. But we all know that some people are never found, or are found after months, i.e Morgan and others.
I believe she is 'stashed' for the following reasons:
I believe this was a crime of passion and of obsession.
I believe the perp knew her or was aware of her or stalked her for some time.
I believe the perp is a local.
Because she is so very beautiful, and a 'sweet Christian girl,' and so pure (in the eyes of the perp), she would be unobtainable to him in the real world.
The perp probably has very low self-esteem and very little luck in relationships with women.
In my opinion, the perp is not interested in a rape and a murder, but is interested in a long-term relationship, with no intention in the short-term of harming her.
The fact that she was abducted from home, not a spot easily seen from the road, not random in any event, but one in which some planning ahead had to be done, leads me to believe the above. But YES, if we didn't know that there was a witness to her being taken from the home, then, yes, I would think it would be a woman who disappeared, like so many others, whether found later or not.
Again, obsessed stalker is what I'm feeling, and with obsession may come a desire to keep her alive. MOO
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