Okay, I’ll bite on your challenge. This is all my opinion only:
1. this stalker waited down the road and snatched her off her bike?
No, this stalker probably waited down the road for her to come riding by going away from her house on her bike, and hatched his plan to intercept her on her return.
how did he know what time she would be going for a ride?
The fire chief said it was common knowledge that she rode her bike every Sunday morning before church
how did he know she'd be alone?
It is apparent to me that she preferred to ride alone. That in itself is unusual, as mountain bikers seem to prefer riding in groups
2. how long was he waiting there?
He had to have waited more than two hours, the time it would take her to return from a “short ride”
did he have a car?
A car, or a van, I think. We’ve heard both and can’t confirm either.
if so, wouldn't passersby have seen this car?
A passerby DID see a strange vehicle, that didn’t seem to belong on CR 225. He reported it to LE, but there has been a lot of discussion in this thread over whether he reported it before or after the disappearance. Does the time he reported what he saw truly make any difference at all?
3. how exactly do you abduct someone who is riding a bicycle? please describe how you think this might have occurred & how this matches up with what we know about the placement of the bike.
A bridge would be an ideal place to stop a bicycle. For a full width bridge, as simple length of rope would block a bicycle. For a bicycle bridge, just standing on the bridge would block it. As we saw in the last Fooses Creek Video that I posted, a fallen tree works, too.
We don’t know anything about the placement of the bike. We heard from the nephew that the brakes were locked up, and we heard from BLM that at least five LE officers handled it without gloves, which means that it probably was not on near a road where one officer with gloves could pick it up and place it in an LE vehicle. My guess is LE carried at a ways to their vehicle, handing it off as they went. One television report cited a distance from the house of 2,000 feet to the bike. That would encompass all of the area I’ve mentioned so far.
Adder question: How did this person choose SM?
The man probably had met her, but it’s likely that he didn’t know her or anyone in her family very well.
He could be a clerk at the grocery store, the janitor where she gets her hair done, or the guy that’s always sitting on a bench where she parks her car and plugs the meter. He could be almost anyone, and he might be hiding almost anywhere.
The house itself is not visible from Highway 50, and we have heard no reports of prowler activity. My guess is that the man knew her from some ordinary activity that she routinely did in town, learned enough about her to stalk, and ended up parked on CR 225 on Sunday morning, looking for a chance to make his move.
It’s all just my opinion, which was formed entirely by common information in this case and involved no reading between any lines. I think it’s a very viable possibility that needs to be looked at. Could it be wrong? Sure, but so can any other theory that is based on so little actual information.
