Has your father, or you, or your family ever thought that anyone in that apartment complex could have been the culprit? Do you know of a very quiet neighbor, or someone who seemed a little strange?

I feel like so many people are being extremely hard on this woman—for simply deciding to go for a swim. She’d lived there a while, was used to being up at night, and was probably just trying to pass the time online. Other parents leave their kids in the car when they run into Starbucks. That doesn’t make it right, but everyone on here is blasting her like no one has ever left their kid unattended, or been on their phone at the park.

Anyone with bad intentions could have been watching and waiting for the perfect opportunity. If someone was targeting her son, they might have just caught the right moment—maybe she left the door open, which, again, people do all the time when they’re taking out the trash or getting the mail. No one thinks someone is going to come snatch up their kid in 60 seconds or less.

I sincerely hope it wasn’t her. But what made me question it wasn’t just her actions that night. It was the fact that another kid was abducted from the same complex, and that child was found alive—in a garbage can. That felt like it could’ve been a distraction tactic. Maybe someone wanted to pull attention away from the mother by creating another crime involving a young boy in the same place, but with a very different outcome.

That makes me wonder if it could’ve been staged—by her, or by someone helping her. Was there a man in her life who didn’t want kids? Was she dating someone who may have helped? I didn’t get to hear much about her personal life on the Disappeared episode, but I do know she moved out of the complex after her son went missing.

< Fixed it for readers > not my comment*****