A week ago tomorrow, Tamara Jewel Keepness disappeared. According to media reports, her mother says she was put to bed at 11 pm. and gone in the morning. The police refuse to characterize the disappearance as anything more than a “missing person”, which I suppose is beaurospeak for “we have no clue where she went or how.”
Question: This little 5 year old simply got up at 3 am and walked out the door? Do you know of any 5 year old, up until 11 pm, who would not be dead to the world until well into the next morning? Things about this disappearance don’t ring true on a lot of levels, including the media’s insistance on describing the father as deeply distraught and “pleading” for the safe return of his daughter – the actual taped interviews of the parents show remarkably calm, underwhelmed individuals. It may be cultural.
I don’t have any search and rescue expertise, and I suspect that there’s information they are not releasing to the public, but it seems to me that the restricted area the police concentrated on for the first couple of days (9 block area) was a strange approach. They’ve since expanded the search and are finally including fields outside the city, but to me, this is very little – and very late, if this little girl had indeed just wandered away.
When I was under 2 years old, “Butch”, the farm collie, and I took a saucepan and walked a mile to the neighboring farm in the space of an hour or so. I suspect I was running away in rebellion over some disciplinary action by my mother – the saucepan suggests I planned to fend for myself. Turned myself in to a neighbor, instead.
But, the notion that a lost or anger motivated 5 year old would only make it a few blocks before hunkering down or getting trapped somewhere is illogical.
There’s a live news conference on right now. Some twit just asked if any native elders have had “visions” that have been followed up on. *sigh*
We can onlyhope they find her with a disgruntled relative, or somewhere equally benign. Otherwise, propsects are pretty dim.
