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He has some interesting theories about what happened to his mother, hard to tell if he's a nut.
You have to look in the replies under the comments to see his theory.
Most telling is, he is incredibly stupid to think he can post his theory on his facebook page, to a person clearly representing Websleuths.com, and say please don't share this information. Sounds a little unbalanced.
I read the FB page. So the son, Matthew, is convinced it was a planned abduction staged by her husband (who must be his stepfather). Actually, that is a lot more believable than her being picked up by a random stranger. It sounds like Matthew is saying his mother and her husband were involved in drug trafficking??
The police supposedly cleared Sheryl Powell's husband as a suspect in her disappearance. Barbara's husband is the prime suspect. I'm sure there is a reason for that.
On the other hand, it strikes me as odd that reports of both cases have stressed, numerous times, how "very experienced" these women were at being in the wilderness, and how they and their husbands "hiked all the time." They just "couldn't" have gotten lost or confused and ended up somewhere they didn't intend to be, so there must have been foul play. Hmmm.
Anyone who supposedly was "very experienced" wouldn't choose to just haul beer on a triple-digit temperature hike in full sun in a bikini top. Of course you have to realize what most people feel "very experienced" actually means. They don't have a clue. They've just been lucky.
Anyone who supposedly was "very experienced" wouldn't choose to just haul beer on a triple-digit temperature hike in full sun in a bikini top.
No kidding.
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Of course you have to realize what most people feel "very experienced" actually means. They don't have a clue. They've just been lucky.
People who are very experienced with desert hiking, or ocean swimming, or mountain climbing, etc., have respect for the desert and the ocean and the mountains and don't take safety for granted.
Clara, that FB profile was a great find! Funny that her son doesn't understand his post is public; he's telling the gal who's telling him to go to Websleuths not to tell anyone LOL
The WS thread goes too fast for me.
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I read the FB page. So the son, Matthew, is convinced it was a planned abduction staged by her husband (who must be his stepfather). Actually, that is a lot more believable than her being picked up by a random stranger. It sounds like Matthew is saying his mother and her husband were involved in drug trafficking??
The police supposedly cleared Sheryl Powell's husband as a suspect in her disappearance. Barbara's husband is the prime suspect. I'm sure there is a reason for that.
Yeah, her son is saying police have confiscated his electronics and the son feels he had her abducted or killed due to whatever he's gotten his hands into.
It makes no sense that he feels someone took her to Vegas. Makes more sense that they got into a fight, she told him she was leaving; then a car just happens to drive up; grabbing her...
One article I saw said LE don't feel there's anyone else involved
The husband of a woman who vanished while hiking in the Mojave Desert a week ago says he has suspicions about what happened to her, while authorities say they don't suspect foul play.
OK, so maybe it's just the husband (and the son) who say he is the suspect. Because both of them have definitely said that. But it seems very strange to me that if she just wandered off and got lost, searchers haven't been able to find her in more than a week. You can only go so far on your feet in that heat and without any water, regardless of how used to triple digits you say you are.
There was a post on one of the earlier links (I couldn't copy and paste, for some reason) on a Needles Crime Watchers FB page, saying it wasn't planned to be a long hike, but just a 2-mile walk. It also said, that walking in the desert, even in summer, in common for them; they enjoy desert walks. They live nearby, up north of Needles, on the AZ side of the state border, in Bullhead City.
OK, so maybe it's just the husband (and the son) who say he is the suspect. Because both of them have definitely said that. But it seems very strange to me that if she just wandered off and got lost, searchers haven't been able to find her in more than a week. You can only go so far on your feet in that heat and without any water, regardless of how used to triple digits you say you are.
Well, this is the thing. It wasn't even supposed to be a hike, but more like a 40-minute walk. They parked by the side of the road, and got out to take a look at a certain rock formation. On their way back, she disappeared, when he paused to take a photo. Now the son is saying, their marriage was rocky, and her husband controlled or limited her ability to communicate with others, and that there was drug activity in the background (that she may not have been aware of, or recently became aware of).
So, given that it was only a short walk off the side of the road, there wouldn't have been any way for him to kill her and hide her somewhere, unless he'd been gone for a suspiciously long time, before notifying LE. No such time lapse has been reported. Ground searchers would have found her, if she'd collapsed somewhere between where the car was parked and where he took the photo, but she had water. This does kinda leave the only possibility, as someone picking her up, either randomly or premeditatedly.
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