bounceagain - Her mother has no doubt been running in order to keep her mind from going insane and to keep herself physically as fit as she can, in order to house the above mind.
The larger part of me hopes that this new info is wrong but the other part of me wants the parents to be put out of their daily nightmare. If there is no resolution, then their grief will always be on high alert ...their adrenaline flowing every day, their bodies in a constant state of stress and anxiety. In these 5 weeks that she has been missing, as a 4 yr old, she must be going through abusive hell, if she is still alive. Whoever has taken her is unlikely to be playing 'happy families' with her.
Just my thoughts.... I so want her to be found alive and unviolated but I just can't see it now, so a conclusion either way at least ends it.