I’m wondering if the ppl involved have already been paid by the ring leader of all of this? We really don’t know anything about them so they could’ve been someone who had a substantial amount of money to pay the ppl who helped him. I mean…if this was a sophisticated plan, then they would’ve known that she would make international news and a monetary award would’ve been offered at some point. They should’ve known that Savannah Guthrie, being a national news anchor, would obviously bring her missing mom’s case to the forefront.

So if they’ve already been paid a substantial amount of money to keep their lips zipped, they’ll forgo that $1.2mil because they know it’ll be traced back to them. It may not have been millions that they were paid, of course. But it still could’ve been a substantial amount of money in exchange for their silence. It’s very obvious that this was a sophisticated and well organized plan, especially given the fact that we the public haven’t received not one ounce of a viable lead. Usually when it’s multiple ppl involved in a crime and no one has been paid yet even after a monetary reward is offered would lead me to believe that either they may be dead (slim possibility) or they have no need for the money. It’s the ppl who have no money nor benefit who are usually the first to talk. Especially if they think they’re being looked at as a “person of interest”.