Well, I wasn't saying I thought that the woods info was planted- I think it could have been, sure, but I think if it was, it was Stearns who'd planted it.
But my only real thought about the phone is that Stearns may have merely forgot it.
Now, it does sound to me like LE thought Madeline may have left on her own accord because1) they mentioned the woods info at the PC but also 2) the mother called 911 at 4:45 upon confirmation that Madeline hadn't attended school that day- you know, she said it was then that she knew something was "truly wrong"- yet the missing person report wasn't filed until late eve..
If LE ever thought she may have left willingly, it wasn't for long they thought that I'm sure and it was likely only one option. The minute they knew he took her to school and she never made it to school, he would be strong in their mind I'm sure. Or the minute the found any video either of him returning or of her things in the dumpster. This man can't have been so stupid as to not think they'd check the complex dumpster could he? Of course they would.
I don't know what the difference in times means in the 4:45 or 8 or that it matters... Just that she didn't go down to the station to fill out a formal one til later?
Not sure what you mean about mom's time of calling and filing with regard to her running away? Unless you mean mom may have thought so and that's why she waited to file a formal report? If that's even what the time differences mean. I don't ever think I heard that that one was a call and one was filing a missing report. All I heard was she called at 4:45 but LE started searching I thought and got on the case like at 8.
Of interest I think will be when she called Stephan about the morning drop off if at all and to tell him Maddie wasn't at school for her to pick up.
She has every right to lawyer up but I will say even doing so, I'd be sitting down with that lawyer and cops to help nail him with anything she knows or can give them. I somehow doubt they are doing that but who knows...
I have to say I'm having more trouble with her since the knowledge of how much he had and how long this had been going on and in her home. No proof yet but with that, the 8ish sighting of her getting dressed and the 8:19 with him having her dead in the car is a very short period of time. I can make it work but it's pretty tight and then someone said that she said they left for school at about 8:30 but I asked the host who said thath (can't recall who, or at least I think I did) but never got an answer in chat. NOT sure if that is true since I never heard it said but was it, do you know?
Now all the times could be approximate EXCEPT for him on video with her dead. He could have not even went far, killed her and returned but still makes no sense to me he was returning and with her. Forgot something? Left her in the car, heck she's no problem and went and had breakfast. I mean seriously. Showing a natural return to mom? Is there a garage there where she'd have been out of sight?
I also have to wonder how cops could tell she was dead in the vehicle and not asleep. Bullet wound and blood? Obviously broken neck? I'm pretty sure she was seated wasn't she or was this assumed, I know I thought so from the start so I believe LE said it but don't take my word on it, not sure. I hate talking of a recently alive young girl that way, the case just haunts me and now knowing she through years of this from single digits on is awful.
If she was seated, that's one place I have trouble with thinking she was killed earlier or at home and that would POSSIBLY exonerate mom or go a long way if he killed her in the car...Not of everything maybe but a very key thing.
It's kind of sickening out there the commenters calling for her immediate arrest. I will say I am not sold on her but there there isn't any evidence for an arrest at this moment that WE the public know of. Even the news and then all others picking up the 8:00 seeing her thing and calling it a lie went beyond truth. She could have gotten dressed and they left. He killed her and returned. Easily enough. He never went ot the church or the school. So yes it's doable. And she did not claim to last see her at two different times. One question was clearly about the last conversation they had. With getting dressed, she noted no conversation, just that she saw her.
So I'm definitely on the fence here still but I'm a bit less so with as easily believing she saw no sign of this for so many years. I know it's not unheard of and if he was scaring her or grooming her since young to not tell, maybe but still it's in your home... We just need a lot more facts and info and evidence I guess. She didn't work at Disney all those years either and so was she home then?
Then I keep forgetting there is now the stepmom (wife of dad) having asked her if anything was wrong or going on and so on and she said no, no, fine, fine or some such. So it would appear they were picking up on something but mom wasn't.
I will also say this, had mom been more observant, NOT left her from a young age in is care apparently (if she truly did not know) and he was nothing but a bf and it sounds like one she wasn't with for much of the time in all those years(?) and they constantly had breakups, not a great choice leavingi her with him, sendng her with him. Had she become aware, the girl might still be here.
Then there is the part where the grandma says to Telemundo he was not there the night before and she doesn't know why she called him that morning or why. I'd like LE to clear up SOME easy things that probably woudn't affect the investigation and that's who lived in the condo, who it belonged to, where he party was held and other things like that. There's some reason these things are quite unclear. Imo.
Anyhow enough by me. A long, long day and my feet are tortured and not even sure they can get through tomorrow much less the next several long days.
