One thing "Disappeared" does, knowingly or unknowingly-- The episodes raise more questions than I, at least, think the producers are consciously aware of.
The format of always separating the interviews, with each family member/loved one interviewed alone, with the camera focused on him/her, is odd. I don't think they even interviewed the Harringtons together, and that poor couple is never seen apart in other news videos. 48 Hours focused two hours Saturday on the Morgan Harrington/Hannah Graham murders, and the couple was side by side.
This manner of separating people brings more attention to family members or loved ones missing from any episode. For me, the Maura Murray case was terrifying because the episode never made any reference to Maura's mother, leaving you to guess why a boyfriend's mother (who seemed to dislike Maura) got nearly half the interview time. This same thing happened with the Hoagland story. The episode shows the youngest son in photographs, one or two times, and then says he moved to Australia. The eldest son, on the other hand, is not only interviewed, but we learn that his father's disappearance ultimately got him to leave his job in another state to return to Connecticut and be with his mother.
Someone in episodes where integral family members are missing should come out and say something like, "He/She is too upset by the loss to agree to be interviewed." This reason is almost certainly the case in every episode, I suppose. But the producers should leave no doubt in viewers' minds, if only for the sake of these loved ones not being questioned about why they wouldn't participate in interviews.
Just wanted to say this, after watching "Disappeared" for years.
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MirinF
8 years ago
For me it didn't seem the other drug addicts were behind it. They couldn't even afford a normal place to stay, I doubt they were able to organize such a perfect dissapearance.
But there were other things that bothered me. Like Hoagy's first dissapearance. Now they kept telling that he wouldn't have done it to his wife and kids. But the kids weren't kids, they were young adults. And he did do it, when they were really small kinds. What kind of a man walks away from a wife with 3 small children?
Then Loris arrival from abroad. He didn't answer her e-mail about meeting at the airport and it didn't seem to bother her at all. She didn't call or send a sms, just to be sure. And then she waited 2 hours at the airport? Why didn't she just take a cab and go home? And she finally left the airport, she didn't go home even then. I can't imagine doing that. I can't imagine not hurrying home and searching where's my husband.
Then the car key and the wallet. The police said they searched the house several times. And they didn't find the key and the wallet on the chair, not even hided or anything (the doll on top of them was not really hiding anything). Nor did anybody suspect that maybe someone but these things there after the police had searched the house?
And where was the youngest son at the time? They said that Hoagy lived there with Max, that they had breakfast together. Where was the third boy?
Honestly, I think there was something weird about that family. It felt like the poor oldest son, who was living elsewhere, was the only one, who really didn't have a clue, was really upset and telling the truth.
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