BBM. I would be interested in finding out more about this. Does anyone have a link to the video? Surely LE talked with her about what made her uncomfortable, right?
The following article was published June 28, 2009.
Read the bolded text, below. Today, it is assumed / accepted fact that LB left MK's house and began her walk home,
alone. Whom was this "another friend"?
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/49383897.html
The friend's father, Scott Williams, said he asked Lindsey to go home before it got too dark.
"She was here 10, 15 minutes, and then, you know, we said, 'You should probably get going before it gets dark,' and that was the last we heard of her," he said.
Witnesses say Lindsey seemed normal as she headed out around 9:15.
Another friend even walked her part of the way, but Lindsey never showed up at her home.
The following article was published July 8, 2009.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1925146/lindsey_baum_is_still_missing_a_tale.html?cat=8
They brought in dogs and the dogs lost Lindsey's trail. They canvassed neighbors and talked to anyone who might have driven the path that Lindsey took home that night between 9:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., and a witness said they had seen her about halfway along her way. But just up the street was a service station that Lindsey Baum would have to walk by, but it's surveillance cameras never picked up her image. Another witness said they saw her.
A friend had walked a ways with her. And, still, she vanished.
Whom was it that first provided the bolded information to LE or news folk? Did it come from SW or KK, perhaps to deflect embarrassment for letting a 10 year old girl walk home alone after 9:00 pm?
I do not accept that theory and I do not accept the 'confused stories' angle. There were multiple persons in the K house and at least 2 witnesses on the street.
Read both news blurbs again. Both first reference witnesses and then include "a friend" walking with LB, so is it logical to assume the information was provided by one of the witnesses?
... and the bigger question, what did the witness 'see' and who 'corrected' that information .. and why?
Another issue:
Why the discrepancy in the time of the last sighting? Was it 9:15pm or 9:30pm?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=7966924&page=2
Scott said witnesses were able to put Lindsey within a couple of blocks of her house
just after 9:30 p.m. The last person reported to have seen her, he said, was a neighbor on her way to work
For how long was LB at the K house that evening? When did she begin walking toward home and why did a witness offer that LB was walking with someone?
Perhaps the witness(es) confused directions and it was actually MK that was seen walking with LB and it was toward MK's house and not toward LB's house? If that is true then the reported timeline must be questioned.
Another issue:
The following article was written by alias, "MomWhoWrites" (KK, MK's mother), and published on June 29, 2009. She references a bank account set up in LB's name .. a bank account set up the 3rd day (2 previous days were weekend days) after the evening LB went missing?
That seemed odd to me when I read about it then, and it seems odd to me now. Who's idea was that and why so soon? Is it typical, within short days, to set up a bank account for a missing child? What is the intent? More than 1 year after the fact is the account still active? Who 'manages' the account?
http://www.associatedcontent.com/ar..._baum_10_missing_from_mccleary_pg2.html?cat=9
An account for Lindsey Baum has been set up at Timberland Bank so if anyone would like to make a donation for Lindsey they can drop it off at any Timberland Bank location and tell them that it is for Lindsey Baum.All checks can be made out to Lindsey Baum.
If you'd like to mail in a donation or letters of support please mail those to the following address:
Lindsey Baum
P.O. Box 1124
Elma, WA 98541
The following article also was written by alias, "MomWhoWrites" (KK, MK's mother), and published July 4, 2009.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1910902/no_news_is_not_good_news_10_year_old_pg3.html?cat=9
An account for Lindsey Baum has been set up at Timberland Bank so if anyone would like to make a donation for Lindsey they can drop it off at any Timberland Bank location and tell them that it is for Lindsey Baum. All checks can be made out to Lindsey Baum.
If you'd like to mail in a donation or letters of support please mail those to the following address:
Lindsey Baum
P.O. Box 1124
Elma, WA 98541
I'm not implying wrong-doing by those involved. I simply find it as odd that 'money' was considered an issue 3 days (and 2 of those days were weekend days) after the event. Was the account set up on Saturday, 1 day after LB went missing or on Monday, the 3rd day and the same day the first article was published?
Why was SW tested via polygraph, but not KK? Both adults were in the house with LB.
I know I'm rehashing old topics, but I'm underdstand many cases have been solved by retracing from the beginning.
I am not willing to ignore seemingly innocuous misinformation and time line discrepancies.