Missing People Connected?

 Some documentaries popped up in my YouTube suggestions about missing persons, and I put them on to fall asleep to in the motel in Louisiana. While watching them, I realized that Brianna Maitland and Maura Murray disappeared only about a month apart from each other. It was also the same general area (New Hampshire and Vermont, both close to the Canadian border). They look similar and are about four or five years apart in age. Could they possibly be together in some kind of Ariel Castro situation?  It’s been 20 years. With these, anything is possible. Or maybe they *were* together in some kind of Ariel Castro situation, and their captor(s) completed their end game. I posted this question online, and absolutely no one agreed. Brianna Maitland had gotten into a fight with another teenager right before she disappeared, so everyone thinks that girl killed her.  Everyone thinks Maura wandered off after her fender bender and succumbed to the elements. (If that happened, they’d have found her after 20 years. After a car accident, how far could she have wandered?). 

I don’t know. No one knows. That’s why these things are called mysteries. I think with most of these unsolved mysteries, the truth is so far out from everyone’s assumptions. Criminals take advantage of the fact that everyone is going to be looking suspiciously at their spouses, their parents, or people they didn’t get along with in their daily lives. Criminals benefit from the fact that everyone’s attention is on something else or someone else. Most of the ones found alive were found just in some random dudes house. For this reason, they can often hide in plain sight. 

I’d like to see at least 5-10 more missing persons be found alive in my lifetime.