I don't really see her as a weak or fragile person. Possibly manipulated by someone who she thought/thinks cared for her and her children? Yes. I'm strictly going off of feelings of her own words and actions and the description of the locals and her father calling her naive. A weak or fragile person wouldn't have gone into that trailer and raised that cover, nor went further, into FR's trailer. I know women, and men, who'd have had a total meltdown at the first trailer. Her own brother refused to go in and get the infant who he heard crying, because he didn't want to see his niece like that. How'd he know for sure that his niece was deceased? She could have been clinging to life. I think that BJM is just backward. I've known people like her and they're not what I'd call fragile but would do anything for someone they thought cared about them. Do people use them? Unfortunately, yes. Sometimes they do.
You could be right on the two people with her, but so many folks saw them there, I'd have thought their names would have leaked out by now. Their names are likely out there in the "T" world but I try to steer clear of that place.
I have a CNN transcript where Dewine said, on the 24th of April, that "someone out there knows something" No matter how insignificant they think that it is, they should still call in their tip. Your comment about Reader sounds familiar but I don't have a link.
The preacher could be, what I'd call, respectfully, a bit over zealous, but, being from this region, I'm used to that. I don't necessarily agree with everything that they do/say, but, I overlook it. It's just normal to me. I think he means well. Not all of them are quite as outspoken as him. I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, and I'm not putting down, or against, the evangelical religions. They just get a bit more personal, and outspoken, sometimes (in my experience).
