[JavaTheHutt]

Ok, it's even more peculiar than that.

One of the people the mother was at the bar with was a neighbor. The neighbor also accompanied the mother back to her house.

After everyone left, the neighbor loaded up in a motor home and spent the weekend driving first out to the desert, then to the beach, then back to the desert.

The neighbor's house was searched shortly after he arrived back home, and unspecified amounts of child pornography were removed.

The police have taken his motor home to search for DNA evidence that the girl may have been inside it, and have searched areas of the desert and beach where he claims to have spent the weekend.

Now, I'm not saying it's not plausible, because obviously this guy did it, but I find it strange that a guy who says he needed to get away for the weekend and be alone would spend the whole night before he left, drinking in a bar and following his neighbor home for continued partying after the bar closed. It seems strange.

The mother has taken and passed a polygraph. The police will not comment on the father or the neighbor taking one, which makes me think that they probably haven't, or the results weren't squeaky clean. Applying Occam's Razor makes me tend to believe the father and this neighbor are somehow involved.

[Shermy]

The father looked very sincere to me, not Ramseyesque at all. But who knows. thanks for the info on the neighbor... maybe he was there, and just grabbed the kid? Is the open sliding door story just an unrelated fact that makes a break-in sound plausible, or an attempted coverup?

[Shermy]

The father looked very sincere to me, not Ramseyesque at all. But who knows. thanks for the info on the neighbor... maybe he was there, and just grabbed the kid? Is the open sliding door story just an unrelated fact that makes a break-in sound plausible, or an attempted coverup?

[MizSterious]

Didn't Susan Smith (who drowned her children) take and pass a lie detector test, too? It was several years ago, so my memory might be in error.

[blam]

"but I find it strange that a guy who says he needed to get away for the weekend and be alone would spend the whole night before he left, drinking in a bar and following his neighbor home for continued partying after the bar closed. It seems strange."

Throw in a few stimulants (Cocaine/speed) and it may not seem as strange.

[chantal7]

The mother has taken and passed a polygraph. The police will not comment on the father or the neighbor taking one, which makes me think that they probably haven't, or the results weren't squeaky clean. Applying Occam's Razor makes me tend to believe the father and this neighbor are somehow involved.

I've noticed in the interviews that I've seen of the couple that the husband rarely, if ever, looks into the camera. It's like how Susan Smith was in interviews when her kids allegedly "were kidnapped". It makes me very uneasy as to what the husband knows or might have done.

[steve-b]

I wouldn't put much stock in that -- lie detectors are one step (if that) ahead of tea leaves and chicken entrails.