Post by dragnldy5231 on Dec 28, 2019 21:40:07 GMT -6
Sheila always said that her family didn't talk about it and that's very understandable to a point, but for 3 years Tina was still missing. A year after the murders Don and Nancy wrote a letter to the editor in the FRB about how they did not want the murders to become a political issue in the local sheriff's race. I don't want to judge their actions but its hard for me to swallow that Tina had been missing for a year when they wrote the letter yet there was never one plea for anyone with information to please come forward.
I was also wondering about the family's response to Tina being missing. Nobody seemed to care. We have all seen the heart wrenching pleas from relatives of other kidnapping victims on tv and in the papers. For weeks, months, even years, relatives beg for information on every media outlet that will have them, but the Sharp camp seems awfully quiet. Does anyone (maybe with access to newspapers.com) know whether the family made more than a cursory attempt to elicit help from the public?
Another thing that I cannot let go of is the fact that the police had no way to contact Tina's next of kin. The report from LE stated that they had a difficult time notifying someone that the remains were Tina's. I would think that her relatives would have made sure that LE knew where to find them in the case that she was found living. Why was there no heart-sick aunt, grieving father, distraught sister or anyone for that matter calling the police department constantly to ask where this little girl was? I have to assume no one bothered or LE would have had contact numbers.
Was this because the family members knew she would not be found alive?
I am new here, by the way, so I hope I have posted this in the proper place and it hasn't already been discussed 1000 times.