1:41 p.m. - 2008-01-15
Scary
There is something that has the potential to be very frightening about to happen in our town. In Greenwich, NY, a town only half an hour from ours, a 12-year-old boy went missing on Nov.1. There has been no sign of him since then. His adoptive father claims a note was found saying he was leaving and the father believes he went to Albany, NY to join a gang. However, it has been recently discovered that inconsistencies have occurred in this man's story about that night and a van that may be the family's van was video taped at a store not far from the house at a time when the father said they were all asleep. This same man has refused two polygraph tests and refuses to turn over the family vehicle so that the police can rule out whether it was or was not their van. To me these actions are those of a person who is hiding something. Why would you refuse to cooperate if you were innocent? What are you trying to prove by not cooperating even if you are innocent? It just puts a halo of guilt over your head. The scary part is that this family just purchased a house right in the center of our town without the town knowing that it was happening. Needless to say an uproar is beginning. My sister is extremely upset because this house is behind hers and she has two children. Last night she told me that if these people move to that house she may have to leave because she would not feel comfortable living near that man.
I know that one is innocent until proven guilty, but prove your innocence. Our town has seen three tragedies in the past six months: a young mother ran into a house with her car at high speed, killing her instantly (she had four children and the family was known to be having trouble), a logger was killed by a falling tree (he was discovered by another local), and a woman was shot to death by her boyfriend while the woman's five-year-old girl slept upstairs and then shot himself (the little girl then found them the next morning, walked herself and the dog to a neighbors and called 911). It's unsettling to say the least, especially when you know these people and see them on a regular basis. What our town doesn't need is a "person of interest" in a disappearance of a child moving into our town. It would be a different story is the man was cooperating and doing everything he could to prove his innocence. But he's not, and that makes me feel very uneasy. It's a tough situation and one I hope will be rectified in the near future. There have been no clues found, no evidence of foul play, just suspicious behaviour. "He seems like a nice man. He goes to my church", a man in our town said. That's what is said about any person found to be guilty of murder (not that I'm saying this man killed the boy, who knows what happened). I don't want this man coming to our town. Is that unfair of me to feel that way?
