Posted on 10/11/2011 6:12:09 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
LE in Missouri has been so tight-lipped about this investigation that all we get is press speculation, usually not verified by police.
Even Fox is getting most of the details totally wrong.
An example: Fox reported that LE did a re-enactment of climbing in the window, and that it was difficult - even the heavy wooden window fell on the officer trying to climb in. WRONG!
The first time he tried, the very light screen slipped down. The window did not.
He pushed the screen back up, and had no difficulty getting in, without help from anyone.
And, about the man “with” her in the store? How do we know it wasn’t someone behind her she was chatting with, someone she knew from the neighborhood, or a neighbor she drove to the store, while her husband or neighbor was watching the boys.
Unless you hear it from LE, don’t join the mob in front of the guillotine!
My opinion only.
Quite true.
However, this is a form of profiling, which gives us information on statistical probabilities. This is extremely useful, as long as we don't assume a statistical probability tells us anything at all about a given case.
Richard Jewell, the hero of the Atlanta Olympic bombings, who saved at minimum dozens of lives by his quick thinking, had his life utterly ruined because he "fit the profile" of somebody who would stage something like this.
He fit the profile perfectly, but he was completely innocent. This lady appears to fit the profile of a woman who kills her child or conspires to cover up its death. But that doesn't tell us anything at all about this particular case. It is certainly reason for suspicion, but it doesn't help us decide whether she is quilty. You need something called evidence for that.
If the numbers of stranger abductions compared to total abductions approaches 37% as one other poster showed with better numbers, then that is indeed not rare. Slightly more than “One in Three” abductions would not be “rare” by any stretch of the defintion.
The total population of the US has nothing to with it at all, unless you are simply comparing total adbuctions to the total population, then it would be meaningful-”per capita”.
Best;
Are those 278 only solved kidnappings, I’m guessing? There’s no way that accounts for all the missing children last year. If most of them go unsolved, then we really don’t have enough data to go on to make any kind of judgment, especially based on only one year’s numbers.
The police had a press conference and announced to the meida that “the parents stopped cooperating” after the parents said they needed a break.
Nope. haven’t a clue who the mother is. Know nothing about them.
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