Total Relief?
Mayumi does a horrible acting job here, if you want my opinion. After seeing her here, I don’t trust her. Remember emotional memories that I speak about? Well, Mayumi doesn’t have any, and if you thought your child was missing and could possible be killed because of a mistake you or your husband made, let me tell you (well, you all know!), you’d be as emotional as heck. Mayumi? Not at all. Notice she has no recollection memories of what the “terror” was like? She says lots of people helped her, but she can’t say who outside of the police? Her lack of emotional memory here is a gigantic red flag. Add that to what the little boy said, and to the fact he was throwing up, and I really think this was a hoax. The question is when did they decide to go with this hoax? After they accidentally released the balloon? Or before?
Two people have pointed out that I spoke prematurely for myself (Ruth on Facebook and Sarah). I originally wrote in my first post, “So at this point, I tend towards the fact that this was an accident, and not a hoax, but I sure would like to see the boy speak more and ask questions to probe why he said it. That needs to be looked at further so we can understand it, and then and only then can a final determination be made.” At least I was never conclusive.
What a mess this has been!
Some people have been writing me with theories. Is it possible that Richard accidentally released the balloon without a plan, and really did think for an instant that his son might have been in it, but then realized that he wasn’t. I saw Richard make expressions that showed he was distraught over Falcon, but Mayumi doesn’t. Would that explain that aspect? Then they decided to take their “media stunt” and run with it, so they hide Falcon in the attic? I could really believe this is the truth. Everything for me would then make sense.
Update 10-20-2009:
I must say after this whole debacle, my brain is mush and I need to walk away for a while to get clarity. I don’t trust myself at this point to read this case at all right now.