I have heard a couple of the rumors that were posted in the comments section at the TFP online through word of mouth, but right now, everything is rumor. It's what drives me absolutely crazy about Signal Mtn., or any small tight community. When someone moves into that community and there is a problem such as this, the rumor mill spins out of control.
The Silence, especially from LE, doesn't help this. Things are
known, people have info to counter statements Matt has made, some from observation and some from
actions and words from Gail before she disappeared. If these things are true, they are surely verifiable by a simple investigation. This information
has been given to LE. There is silence as a result. We are mystified. LE seems to take no action but everyone is hoping they ARE, and are playing it close. BUT we are worrying that no action is being taken at all.
To see only what Matt has said treated as facts (and facts out of context) discussed, there's a human need to say things cryptically (for fear of hindering the investigation we hope exists) which ends up as rumor. Which yes, Signal Mountain is very good at....which also makes it mind boggling that you could still find people 10 days after her disappearance who didn't know about it!
The last known sightings of Gail (or the jeep, at least) are not even being spoken of. Surely it would be helpful to publish those since reading/hearing them might trigger someone elses memory?
Many people in the community who do not know the family, can make an argument for either spouse being the wronged party, which is how it should be, based on information available.
If the things Gail had said in the weeks before she disappeared are not the case...ie. she was delusional when she said them...then by now police should have confirmed this and be quite able to make statements to support those of her husband, and surely have no reason not to do so? Personally I want very badly to believe this scenario.
Gail though, has disappeared with no known ability to fund it (unless she had been secreting cash for months before...which is possible), in a car which needs gas at some point, in a community where a vehicle can relatively easily be lost from the road...let alone an off-road trail. (If she was stressed, abit of offroading might be just the way to blow off steam?). NO-one is looking for her as a person hurt by mis-adventure, or else there would have been searching going on. Her vehicle was specifically an off-road vehicle, (the Sahara being the same top-of-the-line road driving vehicle) and she sometimes took it off road. There has been no official call to other offroaders to search the trails. There has been NO official call for an intensive search of the mountain...or if there has been, this rumor-mongering community has no rumor of it.
I didn't ask how the person knew this, but it's likely that she would: Gail's husband was running an errand with his mother when she came home and she apparently called to let him know the kids were home, and she was going out and leaving them. At 12 and 9 this is legal in TN. For these kids, a few hours alone at home is totally appropriate to their maturity level. (on the kid subject, they are spending the weekend out of town....but not in the same towns as each other. These two are close...at a time like this, maybe out of town......but surely together? What is their father thinking??? ...Can't dwell on this, can't see the keyboard to type otherwise).
Does the person who obtained the cell phone info have the means to find out more about whether LE actually is following up on the
claims Gail made before she disappeared??? Just to KNOW that they were trying, would help.
