The mystery of what happened to missing Iowa girls Lyric Cook Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins is growing. And now there's another kink in the search for the cousins who went for a bike ride on a summer day and never came back. The police and the family can't seem to get on the same page.
It would be bad enough that Lyric's father Dan Morrissey allegedly stormed out of one of the meetings with cops after being accused of playing a role in their disappearance. But every time the girls' families talk to the media, they have another complaint about how police in Evansdale are handling their case.
I get it. An 8-year-old and a 10-year-old should be sitting on the back porch, swinging their legs, and licking Popsicles, not the center of a national missing child case. The family has every right to be stressed. And when you add on allegations that members of their own clan have been fingered as suspects, you expect blood pressures to rocket.
The police need to be understanding with the Morisseys and the Collinses. This isn't easy for them. They need to go easy on them.
And yet, two children are missing, have been missing since Friday. Almost a week has passed. We are well past that critical "48-hour" window that every police TV show warns parents is optimal for getting a missing kid back.
Lyric and Elizabeth need both a family and a police force focused on THEM. This is not the time to get bent out of shape about allegations that may or may not prove true in the end -- if they really are false, all the more reasons to cooperate and prove them wrong! It's not time for family members like their grandmother to tell the police, who have actually gone to school for this, that they shouldn't be draining a lake that the girls' bikes were found near because "you" think it's a waste of time.
It is time for everyone to put aside their egos. It is time for everyone -- family, police -- to call a truce and decide that they are going to work toward a common goal. That goal? Finding two little girls.
What do you make of this battle between parents and police?
Image via Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office
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Interesting. I just heard a quote, direct from one of the mothers, played on our local radio station. She was thankful that the police did a lie-detector test on them, understanding that it was needed to rule out the obvious - and the obvious, sadly, is that it is most often family members who abduct children.
I wonder if this isn't a case - once again - of the press blowing things out of proportion to get a "unique angle" story?
Truthfully, the police around here are doing everything they can to bring these girls home. We have FBI units from across the country either already here, or on their way. From the moment the disappearance happened, scores of volunteers were out, working 24/7. Churches and civic groups have mobilized to provide relief for those searchers - cooling tents, ice, food.
I would say that this is a typical Iowa response to a disaster - everyone pulling together to help their neighbor. I'm pretty proud to live here right now.
Untill and unless they are found safe no one touched by this will feel that enough was done. That's just the way it is. Some family members will be upset with some aspect or another or the investigation and others will just say "What ever needs to be done do it." It's sad but it seems like they are really trying to find these kids.
the granny in this story makes me ill!! running around shooting off her decrepit mouth is not going to find those girls any sooner!