Bibbitybobbity, they said that was one factor, but that there were others which they coudn't discuss on police advice. They were sure within half an hour that she'd been taken, and not voluntarily.
It just makes you look at your own child and your heart constrict, doesn't it. I remember when the John Venables thing all kicked off, and it is so much harder to read about these things when you're a parent. It's a lifelong hostage to fortune. Those poor parents. Just unbearable. They must have been so proud of her - bright, pretty, built a good life for herself, and suddenly gone. I hope time means they can remember her as she lived, rather than how she died, at least.