Why now?

[Mr Gray]

Despite his rather strong statements in the beginning;

‘I can’t tell you on which basis we assume she is dead. But for us, there’s no other possibility. There is no hope she is alive.’

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You obviously havent followed what he has said...that statement shows no contradiction to anything he has said...read it again. i wont repeat what I have deduced he is alludibng tooo ...but it fits perfectly

[The General]

You obviously havent followed what he has said...that statement shows no contradiction to anything he has said...read it again. i wont repeat what I have deduced he is alludibng tooo ...but it fits perfectly

OK, haven't done this for a while, but let's break this down:

The 'I can't tell you' bit doesn't mean he doesn't know, he knows (or thinks he knows), but he can't say.
The next, it's pretty unequivocal - she's dead. He has something physical that proves it, but not forensic...hmmm
SY....they're not so sure, but Dick says she hasn't seen all the evidence, so hey, how would I know.....but it's still missing persons, which is typical, blithe, self-serving, police semantics.

I can confirm she's dead too. 99.999% of these cases of this length go the same way. So I'll bet on dead.

[barrier]

OK, haven't done this for a while, but let's break this down:

The 'I can't tell you' bit doesn't mean he doesn't know, he knows (or thinks he knows), but he can't say.
The next, it's pretty unequivocal - she's dead. He has something physical that proves it, but not forensic...hmmm
SY....they're not so sure, but Dick says she hasn't seen all the evidence, so hey, how would I know.....but it's still missing persons, which is typical, blithe, self-serving, police semantics.

I can confirm she's dead too. 99.999% of these cases of this length go the same way. So I'll bet on dead.

Before the world knew her name poor lass.