This is the end of a thread, so a perfect place to make this statement. THESE ARE MY OPINIONS, OR THINGS I ACTUALLY DID OR PARTICIPATED IN. My following comments are in response to a posting of a media article that claims they basically led the PI to Lucas. I assure you, they did not. There's a lot of people taking credit in the media, social media, and elsewhere for things they didn't do, so I'm going to set the record straight. First of all, I think it's pretty gross and shameless for someone to stand in front of a camera and brag with all their peacock feathers open. Even worse when half of what they are saying is an untruth.
I've purposefully stayed out of WS because I haven't had time to read and reply AND spend my every free moment working with a team on Lucas' case. More importantly though, I have not trusted myself not to slip and say something I shouldn't.
As is true with every case, people do things that aren't necessarily considered remarkable until those things are scrutinized under a microscope. Emily Glass did some very ordinary things, predictable things, horrible things, and evil things. Every day. In the process, a beautiful, sweet, funny, precious little boy was killed. Then discarded. People in her life, her family and partner all participated in their own ways. We do not yet know the extent, but I urge you to not be soft on these people. They enabled her, possibly even struck Lucas themselves. We will find out.
There is SO much more to this case than what can be revealed. It's all complex, yet not. The ordinary is extraordinary. Obvious, yet mind blowing. Finding Lucas was the main goal. With that resolved, it's now time to focus on making sure the people who harmed Lucas, or enabled that, pay for it AND do not ever have the opportunity to do that type of behavior again.
Back to finding Lucas. In February as Emily Glass was being arrested, a team of WSers got together and began to search. At first it was haphazard, but very quickly we became organized and documented everything. Everything we planned went directly to TXEQ, who I assume in turn handed it off to LE. So they have on record who did what and where. They know for a fact that it is the Pinks that were out there, way back in March. The flow of information was clean and smooth. Every search was mapped and recorded and sent to TXEQ. That culvert was in our zoning, and the Pinks got down and searched it. Sadly, we missed finding Lucas even though, like I said, our search team was there. Again though, so as not to jeopardize the case in any way, the details of why he was missed must be omitted. Even the PI said he would have missed him had he not been fed information from Emily. I just want to go on record to say that I assure you, the people that are publicly pounding their chests like heroes who went there or planned to go there are not telling a truth. And they have behaved very unprofessionally in many ways. It's disgusting. The people who were doing the down and dirty searching, literally, are not out bragging about it. They answer to Lucas and no one else. Our heroes are silent, invisible, stealth.
Websleuths as a platform is the foundation that brought this team together. This is why Websleuths exists. The rules are strict, but is also why LE considers WS a source of truth. Wichita stepped up. Amazing people. There are other teams of searchers outside of our group, but they did not search where Lucas was found, nor did they have super top secret information that pointed to where he was. The PI manipulated Emily and Jonathon until he was able to crack the code, as it were. The PI found Lucas using his own methods and with information he gleaned from Emily herself. He said it himself to the reporter. He didn't hear the details and he didn't want to know them. So when someone runs around taking credit for it, they are lying.
Unfortunately, I can't comment on the ridiculous amount of doxxing of WS posts that's gone on in FB. If you posted here, your comment was likely lifted and posted there as if they wrote it. Gross and dirty. Anyway...
Much respect to Henry2326, perfectingpink, n_c66, ESO, , and Lucas' family that posted here. Seriously bad *advertiser censored* group of brains right there.
