Weird, isn't it? I would think that everyone locally in Durango, Bayfield and Vellacito know each other. I think the family has lived there for quite some time. I know mom and kids moved to CS in July.
Why didn't someone get quoted in the paper or even leave a comment on an article to the effect...."i saw them shopping; I saw them having dinner; I waited on them at the drive-thru; I saw them go by; I saw them arrive home" Why, why, why????
It is weird... many things about this case are weird to me. I'm trying hard not to come to any conclusions, but sometimes it's hard.
Here's the weirdest thing to me, if there is no proof they stopped anywhere, if in fact they didn't stop anywhere, why did MR tell anyone that they did? He could easily have said, "Dylan was tired, I picked him up and we went straight home." That couldn't be verified either, but it's less strange (IMO) than "we stopped at a store to buy groceries" when you would know that the likelihood of running into someone who knows you would be great. Or that there would be video footage in a larger store like WalMart that would show you weren't there.
JMO, but if you "did" something to your child right after you picked him up at the airport, and you were trying to set up an alibi, why use something that should be able to be checked out, but can't be? And if they did indeed stop at a store, why hasn't someone in that small area come out and said they saw them?
Like many things about this case, it boggles my mind.
eta: Even if they did stop and didn't see anyone they knew, with the publicity surrounding his disappearance, why hasn't someone who didn't know them seen the news coverage and come forward to say they remember the man and his boy at the store?