Due to covid-19,voluntary unemployment and a 100 metric tons of youtube videos,Melissa's case really stood out to me after watching a documentary.I began immersing myself in her case.I found myself pot of coffee after pot of coffee reading reading reading about the abduction of Melissa Brannen from the great state of Illinoisia.During my reading I did get different numbers/stories so the questions and theories I have gathered are based on the jist of it all.I found a lot of things interesting,to me at least and those interesting things may or may not be completely shot down by people who were actually there and that's okay,I'm not always right but I do try my damndest.Here it goes!I found it interesting that Caleb was a murder suspect before Melissa,supposedly Caleb's family suspected him in the death of his brother and wife.His own family suspected him and the police polygraphed him but he passed that one,which made me wonder if he had volunteered to do a polygraph after Melissa disappeared thinking he would beat that one too.He obviously didn't pass that and became agitated and left.An article from a washington post archive said he worked for a landscaping company in Mclean.It is my belief that Melissa wasn't his only victim,based on Melissa's appearance I looked at the Fairfax county cold case site and there were two that stood out to me and they were Rhiannon Gordon and Amy E.Baker.What do these three girls have in common?They're young,dark/brown hair at shoulder length,and it's plausible that Caleb was in the area.The age of the victims go down in order Amy 18 in march,Rhiannon 10 in July,and Melissa age 5 in December.The article lists Calebs tenure at the landscaping company from March to June,odd.I theorize that Caleb is an opportunistic serial killer.I don't think his intentions were sexual at all with Melissa,he just saw an oppurtunity to kill.Another thing I found odd,the assistant manager the one who invited Caleb to the party was also the first to try to phone Caleb at 10:30.Around 10:00 is when Tammy told Melissa it was time to go.Tammy and guests look for Melissa till they find the open window,call the police,wait for police,police conduct their own search,police interviews guests and all under 30 minutes?I find it very odd this person called Calebs house twice before the police did and once again after police make their own call to Calebs residence.It really makes me wonder who got Caleb the job at Woodside,did he just apply or did someone like this assistant manager vouch for him and I'm not talking about the property manager or resident manager but this assistant manager's actions really set off some red flags for me.Again from what I read assistant manager calls 1030,1100,1230...police called at 12 and then showed up at 1:00 at Caleb's residence.Another thing I question is that extra 50 miles.The police said Caleb's wife was eager to help but I wonder if she was eager to deceive.The washer and dryer,what model/manufacturer were they,magic chef?How long to wash how long to dry and how dry were his clothes?That helps build a time frame.When I read that his washing machine and dryer were in a basement,well I instantly thought of whitey bulger,another serial killer that hid his victims in a basement,and no I'm not comapring Caleb to Whitey Bulger who was easily a top 10 American criminal in the 20th century,Calebs ranking as a criminal is probably in the 100,000th's due to his pettiness.I saw the youtube videos of the search which included helicopters,the military,and a significant amount of volunteers.Which is why I question the 50 miles,was the 50 miles intentionally thrown out to dilute the search,to have police search as far away from ground zero as possible?How hard did the police search that basement?Another odd action was by Hilton Cobb but who knows,a friend of a lawyer is a lawyer and maybe he was trying to sabotage the case,again,odd.In retrospect during my reading,I read that Greenspun(calebs lawyer) said Caleb was thrilled when a portion of his conviction was over turned and he thought he was getting out,I looked at the date of the article and laughed....he ended up doing another 24 years.The prison system is not kind to people like Caleb and looking at his picture that someone posted here,he looks broken.In a weird way,it's like Melissa Brannen killed him too.
