IA IA - Elizabeth Collins, 8, & Lyric Cook, 10, Evansdale, 13 July 2012 - #20

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http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/ev...cle_18411a90-cd32-11e1-a656-0019bb2963f4.html

http://www.kwwl.com/story/19023342/evansdale-police-searching-for-two-missing-girls

These girls have been missing all afternoon and the search was suspended tonight now that it's dark here. We're a small town next to a larger city but a small police force that has likely never dealt with missing kids.. Bikes found on the trail and purse and phone had been thrown over the fence near the bikes but the other side of the fence is a hill leading to the highway. Right now the search is very disorganized and there aren't any flyers :(.


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case map by poster hollye

NCMEC posters:
http://www.missingkids.com/missingk...NCMC&seqNum=1&caseLang=en_US&searchLang=en_US
http://www.missingkids.com/missingk...NCMC&seqNum=1&caseLang=en_US&searchLang=en_US

NEW UPDATE! DCI EMAIL AND SIX TIPS TO LOOK FOR:
http://www.kcci.com/news/central-io...case/-/9357080/16505396/-/th3cnp/-/index.html
 
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bumping this up.. and this warning lands at random: several more posts that involved sleuthing the family have been removed just from today alone. From this point forth if you sleuth the family or post speculation about them you will be put on the timeout list. The rules are easy to follow. If you have any questions about them please pm a moderator. Again, this lands at random.
 
I`d like to post these two maps again. They give the last known time and location for the girls.

Cook_Collins_timeline3.jpg


Cook_Collins_two_options.jpg
 
The more I look at the maps, the more it seems clear that the girls were last seen at the corner of Elmer and Gilbert, the entrance to the parking lot at Meyers Lake. Their bikes and purse were found at the drainage pipe gate, and police have asked people about Arbutus, meaning the girls entered the park from the East. Perhaps they rode across the grass.

Dogs tracked to the end of the fence in the treed area. Somehow, their bikes ended up somewhere between the end of the fence on the East side and the actual gate. Someone could have lured them with a boat ride with the condition that they had to walk through the forest ... a bit like Hansel and Gretel.

Didn`t Lyric`s paternal grandmother say something about Lyric being like a bull in a China shop ... would blindly do something without consideration of the consequences. They could have been lured (I`m now of the opinion that they were). Elizabeth was described as a friendly, talkative child with strangers (paraphrasing there). Perhaps it was a complete stranger, perhaps it was someone that they had encountered once before - perhaps in the parking lots near Elizabeth`s home. The grandmother last saw them riding towards the old post office.

Cook_Collins_routes2a.jpg
 
Sorry all I know this is way, way far behind.. my catch up posts: - I dared to leave the computer for a few hours. ;)

It looks like the thread has closed so I can't quote directly and don't want to attempt the delayed quoting so I don't screw it all up like I did before. I'll just go in order. Hope that's ok. :)

@Cherie.T - aw thank you so much for your thoughts. People can be rude for sure, but a lot of times I think they don't even know they're doing it. Sometimes they do of course but I think a lot of it's subconscious. It really sucks but I guess it's just reality. Using a wheelchair, especially as a kid, you're nearly always ignored, or treated so overly-nicely that you're kind of embarassed. Adult in a wheelchair, oh yeah, ignored unless you desperatly need help. Tying to this case I can see these two little girls helping a person in need, young or old. :(

@Cherie.T and @Marilynilpa - I can so relate to a lot of what you both said. I think most of the time people want to do the right thing and don't know exactly what the right thing is. Especially, possibly, young vulnerable girls, growing up in a safe area - "right" thing might not always be "safest" thing. :( And Marilynilpa I understand your Mom not wanting to shop when it's busy, for a lot of reasons.

@Otto I'm not sure exactly how to phrase this but it seems to me, IMO and all, that most of the time a person did kidnap or molest a child, or worse, the most common comment (to media anyway) is "but they were... (fill in the blank: quiet/a great neighbor/at church every Sunday/the best neighbors you could ask for/didn't know them well but they were very nice.) Ohhkay... that makes sense to me but who would go to the cops going "I KNEW she/he was a serial rapist and killer!"?

General comment, what freaks me out more and I haven't had a chance to look it up yet was the recent "Batman shooter" guy. I only caught a bit of it but if I heard it right, even his own Mom was saying she wasn't surprised. What?!?

Catching up on posts..

@Cherie T. about the reward amount, you're right, it never seems to do much. In this case I sort of thought it might depending on who took the girls. Thanks for sharing those other cases. Did someone see the abduction? Maybe, but I think only if it didn't look like an abduction at that point. I can think of so many reasons girls would go with someone, especially a familiar vehicle... quickly, and quietly.

@ Cherie.T and Marilynilpa sorry I'm jumping around a bit, I could be way off base but I do agree it was someone trusted and known to at least one of the girls.

@Considering: "Looks like I'm back to my original theory on the abduction. I had started thinking they were kidnapped closer to Elizabeth's house, but now I'm back at the lake as the abduction site." Me too but I'm curious as to what changed your mind?
 
Someone on the last thread asked about exit routes, in particular one that included McCoy.

Cook_Collins_exit_routes2a.jpg


Just thinking about routes that perps take when there`s someone in the car that shouldn`t be there ... the rapist and murderer of Joanna Yeates in Bristol involved a bizarre escape route ... one where there was less traffic.
 
I'm not sure exactly how to phrase this but it seems to me, IMO and all, that most of the time a person did kidnap or molest a child, or worse, the most common comment (to media anyway) is "but they were... (fill in the blank: quiet/a great neighbor/at church every Sunday/the best neighbors you could ask for/didn't know them well but they were very nice.) Ohhkay... that makes sense to me but who would go to the cops going "I KNEW she/he was a serial rapist and killer!"?

Unlike the 1950s, when electroshock therapy and frontal lobotomies were popular, or the 1970s when it was believed that craniology was a clue in indentifying murders, today it is a well known fact that anyone with any profession or job, with any shape of the head, or style of hand writing, can commit murder. Even Jack the Ripper has, on occassion, been considered a gentleman.

http://www.nndb.com/people/256/000093974/

Investigators asked that anyone that had a meeting or planned event cancelled, knew someone that had a quick change of plans, or who had a boat ... that is the sort of intuitively odd behavior that investigators are asking people to report about their neighbors. I don`t think they`re expecting anyone to walk in sideways accusing their neigbor of being a serial killer.
 
Originally Posted by RNER
Guess I'm confused...

I was thinking that they might have taken the girls to keep him from talking in a trial because of the fear that the girls would be harmed or killed if he said too much.

Maybe the "abduction" was planned no matter what he decided to do in court the day before. IMOO...Either way would implicate others.

BBM

The one way it would make sense to take them (or at least Lyric) even though he changed his plea would be to hold them until his own trial is finished. That way there'd be no chance of him changing his mind again at the last minute and testifying. I personally don't think that's what happened to them, but it's not totally out of the question. MOO
 
BBM

The one way it would make sense to take them (or at least Lyric) even though he changed his plea would be to hold them until his own trial is finished. That way there'd be no chance of him changing his mind again at the last minute and testifying. I personally don't think that's what happened to them, but it's not totally out of the question. MOO

If someone wanted to kidnap Lyric to send a message to her father, why is Elizabeth missing.
 
Yellow might be where the girls rode their bikes,
Green might be how they rode thier bikes from Gilbert and Elmer along Arbutus to the drainage pipe gate
Purple might be the routes taken after the girls had been abducted

Cook_Collins_complete_possibilities.jpg
 
If someone wanted to kidnap Lyric to send a message to her father, why is Elizabeth missing.

Did you read the whole thing I wrote? I said I don't think that's what happened. You're preaching to the choir here! :guitar:
 
Nikb, you are so sweet...thanks for replying here to all our comments from the other thread.
 
Otto- I don't think the girls rode their bikes to Arbutus. I think LE is asking about that area because it's pretty clear they were taken out that way, if they rode the trail to where their bikes were found. And even if they didn't, Arbutus still would have been used to stage the bikes.

This is just MOO of course.
 
I will never believe the bikes were staged, that's just taking a huge risk.
 
The Cedar Rapids Old Navy store dedicated a day to child safety awareness Sunday. Old Navy stores nationwide did the same over the weekend in partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

The clothing store educated children and their parents about the importance of 911 and the rules of dealing with strangers. Kids were fingerprinted by law enforcement officials and were able to explore a fire truck and ambulance at the site.

Old Navy and the community found the “stranger danger” concept important during the investigation of the two missing Black Hawk County Girls.
http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Old-Navy-Advocates-Child-Safety--169973046.html
 
Yellow might be where the girls rode their bikes,
Green might be how they rode thier bikes from Gilbert and Elmer along Arbutus to the drainage pipe gate
Purple might be the routes taken after the girls had been abducted

Cook_Collins_complete_possibilities.jpg

The thing i cant get past is that they traveled so far right about the time they should be going back home iirc. Why go there when you know your not going to be able to stay and play...Why wait around E's house driving in circles for 40 or so mins then all of a sudden go to the park.. if your purpose was to go off exploring why did they wait to do it..i just dont understand that part.
 
The thing i cant get past is that they traveled so far right about the time they should be going back home iirc. Why go there when you know your not going to be able to stay and play...Why wait around E's house driving in circles for 40 or so mins then all of a sudden go to the park.. if your purpose was to go off exploring why did they wait to do it..i just dont understand that part.

One of my alternate theories has been that between 11:30 and the time they were seen on cctv at Brovan, they were asked by someone to courier something. There is no evidence that I know of that would support that, but you are right in asking what I've repeatedly asked myself, why would they defy instructions to return frequently to "check-in", which they would normally abide by. Why, this time, did they go the opposite direction, i.e., to the lake instead of home? If somebody in the neighborhood got them to deliver something to the parking lot at Elmer and Gilbert, they could have been witness to something wrong that went horribly wrong for them. It is not my major theory, but seems somewhat feasible. MOO

ETA: They had a mission, and I believe it was to meet someone, because they had already basically run out of time to go play at the park..they should have been heading back to the house. MOO
 
I will never believe the bikes were staged, that's just taking a huge risk.

What clues have there been that the bikes were placed in more than one position than the girls may have last touched them? That discussion is what led to a lot of speculation as to whether they were "staged". Just sayin'. MOO

Don't answer that question Cinder!!!! LOL

That question still dangles. The new timeline changes nothing. There are several possible scenarios.


MOO
 
So do we actually know how the girl's bikes were placed when they were first found, i.e. were they neatly parked against a fence?

We know the bikes TG swerved around laying on the trail were not the girl's bikes and where were these bikes in proximity to the girl's bikes.



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