Dr. Doogie
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In the late 1970's, Anna's family hired a private investigator named Josiah "Tink" Thompson to investigate the two Georges and the possibility of their involvement. As with LE, he concluded that they were odd enough to have done this, but no evidence could be found link them to Anna's disappearance/abduction. In our recent investigation, we have uncovered personal papers that seem to indicate both a motive for Anna to disappear (removing her as a potenial heir to Water's estate) and seemingly a foreknowledge of events that occured in January 1973 (the "Plan" note). Both LE's and Tink's analyses were qualified based on a lack of evidence, but that lack of evidence has been overcome by what we have discovered recently, so what we are left with is that the two Georges were odd enough to have done this AND evidence does exist linking them to her disappearance.
I am currently reading a non-fiction book authored by Tink about his early adventures as a private investigator titled "Gumshoe". Though the events in the book take place during the period that he was working for Anna's family, it does not mention any of the events involving Anna.
In the book, he does detail a case where he was involved in the "snatching" of a young girl who had been illegally taken from her mother by the non-custodial father. He refers to this sort of case (where a P.I. snatches a child back from a parent who does not legally have custody) as a "seam" job. He explains that the P.I. must determine that when a child is not in the immediate control of the parent or some other adult, then time his snatching to occur during this "seam" between two "fabrics" of adult supervision. He uses the example of a child who is dropped off by a driver in front of a school, who then walks into the school building and into class. That brief period between when the child leaves the bus and before the child is in the classroom as the "seam" - where the child is most vulnerable to being snatched.
If the above information makes you a little squeamish, remember that Tink is referring to cases that he was involved with returning a child to the proper custodial parent. Obviously, this is not the case when it comes to Anna. But, the technique used by whoever took Anna seems to echo what Tink describes. There was only a small window of opprtunity to find Anna outside of the immediate control of a parent or an adult (the "seam") and the abductor(s) found it. Even the incident with the couple in the car somwewhat fits this pattern: Anna, away from her parents, but with her two teenage brothers may have seemed to be the closest that the couple could find and they attempted to exploit this seam. When the brothers did not fall for the ruse, the couple left - likely to wait for a better seam to occur.
Which raises a possibility: were the couple in the car merely a couple searching for a daughter for their family, or could they have been professionals utilizing the same techniques that Tink describes? Tink expresses the moral quandries and outlines the legal and ethical rationalizations that he went through prior to becoming involved in such activities. Other professionals may not have been so ethical. Waters certainly earned enough to afford hiring a team to accomplish this task and Brody had plenty of cash stuffed away in a safe-deposit box to pay for such a endeavor. Brody may have viewed this as an investment necessary to secure the greater payoff of fully receiving Waters's inheritance.
I am currently reading a non-fiction book authored by Tink about his early adventures as a private investigator titled "Gumshoe". Though the events in the book take place during the period that he was working for Anna's family, it does not mention any of the events involving Anna.
In the book, he does detail a case where he was involved in the "snatching" of a young girl who had been illegally taken from her mother by the non-custodial father. He refers to this sort of case (where a P.I. snatches a child back from a parent who does not legally have custody) as a "seam" job. He explains that the P.I. must determine that when a child is not in the immediate control of the parent or some other adult, then time his snatching to occur during this "seam" between two "fabrics" of adult supervision. He uses the example of a child who is dropped off by a driver in front of a school, who then walks into the school building and into class. That brief period between when the child leaves the bus and before the child is in the classroom as the "seam" - where the child is most vulnerable to being snatched.
If the above information makes you a little squeamish, remember that Tink is referring to cases that he was involved with returning a child to the proper custodial parent. Obviously, this is not the case when it comes to Anna. But, the technique used by whoever took Anna seems to echo what Tink describes. There was only a small window of opprtunity to find Anna outside of the immediate control of a parent or an adult (the "seam") and the abductor(s) found it. Even the incident with the couple in the car somwewhat fits this pattern: Anna, away from her parents, but with her two teenage brothers may have seemed to be the closest that the couple could find and they attempted to exploit this seam. When the brothers did not fall for the ruse, the couple left - likely to wait for a better seam to occur.
Which raises a possibility: were the couple in the car merely a couple searching for a daughter for their family, or could they have been professionals utilizing the same techniques that Tink describes? Tink expresses the moral quandries and outlines the legal and ethical rationalizations that he went through prior to becoming involved in such activities. Other professionals may not have been so ethical. Waters certainly earned enough to afford hiring a team to accomplish this task and Brody had plenty of cash stuffed away in a safe-deposit box to pay for such a endeavor. Brody may have viewed this as an investment necessary to secure the greater payoff of fully receiving Waters's inheritance.
