Only someone obsessed with politics to the point of becoming unbalanced could make this a liberal versus conservative issue. That's what happens when someone stops thinking for themselves and instead lets the Limbaughs of the world tell them what to think.

You are a sad, pathetic, twisted creature....this is about the life of a 2 years old child --nothing to do with politics.

After six days of millions of people praying for this little angel, hope is rapidly dimming.

Looks like soon the entire world is going to have to learn how to pronounce "Biryukova" as they watch this evil episode progress to court, splashed across TVs, newspapers, and the internet to a transfixed, outraged public.

"Casey Anthony" was, at least, easy to pronounce. So was Susan Smith, Andrea Yates, Diane Downs, and China Arnold.

Thanks Perry Mason, but I don't need a law lecture, I sat through plenty at university. You are missing the point...a child's life may be at stake and time is of the essence. If hauling in this woman on the gross misdemeanor of false reporting (punishable by up to a year in jail) --and they can arguably make that case right now-- applies pressure that gets her to talk, that is all to the good. Building an ironclad case for whatever felony (e.g. murder) might be involved comes later.

Today, this minute, the only issue is to find the child. And if there is any chance the child is still alive (and though unlikely, there is a chance), and if using whatever tools and tactics the law provides right now, today, has a chance of finding the child while he is still alive...then that is not only the legal thing to do...it is more importantly the right and necessary thing to do. It is a worthwhile gamble to jeopardize a future capital case if it gets info now that saves a child life. Police and prosecutors take these gambles all the time...and now is the time.

Up to this point perhaps the police were letting her remain free so they could track her whereabouts in the event she might lead them to the child. But it seems this woman is a sociopath with no conscience and doesn't care about the child, so another tactic is needed. Note also that her entire family is hiding --that suggests to me they aren't protecting the child but bracing for the worst, knowing what this mentally ill woman is capable of.

Yes, letting her remain free and not charging her with a crime (she could be hauled in for child endangerment, esp with the previous citation, and lying to police officers) has turned out not to be the winning strategy to pressure this horrible woman in to talking. She knows what happened to the child and time is of the essence. Arrest her, even on minor charges for now, and hold her as long as possible. Maybe the change of surroundings, and lack of access to Facebook and texting, will jar loose an errant synapse in this nut job's brain and police will get answers they are not getting now. I doubt she will confess that the child is dead BUT anything she says at this point is better than silence.

Yes, letting her remain free and not charging her with a crime (she could be hauled in for child endangerment, esp with the previous citation, and lying to police officers) has turned out not to be the winning strategy to pressure this horrible woman in to talking. She knows what happened to the child and time is of the essence. Arrest her, even on minor charges for now, and hold her as long as possible. Maybe the change of surroundings, and lack of access to Facebook and texting, will jar loose an errant synapse in this nut job's brain and police will get answers they are not getting now. I doubt she will confess that the child is dead BUT anything she says at this point is better than silence.

This is a woman who sat for 11 hours at mediation knowing her 4yo and 2yo were home alone. When my children were that age I would get frantic if they were out of my sight for more than a couple minutes. (Yet the next day her main thought was to try to void the agreement she signed.)

I think very few of us could comprehend that level of disregard and indifference to the safety of a child or such complete self-centerness. It is sociopathic, nothing less. Combine that with the fact that she seemed to not care much for the little boy (e.g. her Facebook page) and despised the father that the little boy was a carbon copy of.

That adds up to a woman who could easily turn her back on the child's safety and come back to find him dead. Or cause his death more directly. Think about it: the only possible reason that a mother whose child was missing would not talk to the police for 5 days is that she already knows what has happened to the child. Any other parent would be camped at the police station, driving around, collapsed in a heap praying with all their might, bouncing off walls. Her behaviour tells me the child is either dead or in the safe care of an accomplice. The latter seems unlikely at this point. A parent's main role in life is to protect their children and my feeling is that this mother is destined to burn in H*LL for what she has done.

Might be the same scammers, but they are not local...the Patti Krieger email scam was traced to Africa (25,000 down payment on a 250,000 ransom)

Not very likely that the shoe is the boys...I think I read that tracking dogs detected no trail from the car. I don't believe the boy was ever in the car. I realize the older child claims the boy was in the car, but the mother has a long history of manipulating the child --note that even though the child had not seen the father for 10 months, the child blurts out "Dad is mean." Frankly that indicates so much spite and vindictiveness on the mother's part, that it is not unheard of for that deranged a parent to kill a child to hurt the other parent (and note that the boy is perfect image of the father). However, usually the murderous parent doesn't hide their crime this well.

There are four possibilities I can think of:

1. The child was in the car and wandered off (Not likely, someone would have seen or found the child... a tracking dog would have an easy scent trail, for starters.)

2. The child was in the car and an accomplice of the mother took the child (Not likely, why would anyone collude on such a scheme, esp with a mentally ill person?...and by now the child would have been found by police who no doubt have talked to all possible collaborators.)

3. The child was in the car and a stranger came by and took him. (Not likely, 99.9% of the people that might stop would instead call the police and stay with the child.)

4. The child was never in the car but the mother somehow fooled a 4 year old into thinking he was so she would have corroboration. (Most likely, easiest scenario for the mother to fabricate.) But if this is true, then the obvious question is why? And unfortunately the answer that seems most likely is the scenario none of us want to think about: that the child was at that point no longer alive, and the body had already been hidden.

From the moment I first heard about this incident on Sunday I was certain that the mother's story was false...but I hoped he would be found at an accomplice's house. Now I worry because so much time has passed. I have had three children that were 2 once...it seems like yesterday...and all I can do is pray for this little boy.

Well, LIN1945, because finding the child alive is the top urgent priority, the first thing the police, and esp the FBI (since they have great expertise in kidnappings), will do is comb through her cell phone and computer and other records of communications to make a complete list of EVERYONE she has communicated with recently (e.g. the last 60 days) and then go visit them.

Planning and covering her tracks isn't this woman's strong suit so if someone has the child, that person will be on the aforementioned list. So if a person is hiding the child and didn't realize they are complicit in a crime (false reporting, for starters) they will definitely know it when the police show up on their doorstep. The police will show up unannounced, be hardass, and verge on making an accusation to catch the person off guard --and then the person's reaction will provide a good indication of guilt or innocence. If they have the child, they will give him up. That is why I am so worried --the police have no doubt canvassed every likely household where this child could be hid, but, 5 days later, no child.

I read so much silly stuff on here (esp Sister45685p) that I just had to comment. First, THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IS THAT THE CHILD IS FOUND SAFE. That is the only thing, period. But if people want to be blowhards and know-it-alls...at least pay attention to the facts. In WA State no one can have another person committed. In King County it is done by Superior Court specialists that are called out 24/7 to ERs, 911 situations, etc. and the process is quite involved. And I assure you, no one is detained for 7 months for being obsessive / compulsive --either the patient has volunteered for commitment or they have a very serious Axis I disorder. In either case, this level of illness often causes the patient to make relentless, wholesale accusations against others. So the facts suggest that, even if the father is an A-hole, the mother is the main manipulator and accuser here (the audio postings on her blog proves that --mentally ill people often need to get people "on their side"). And there is no possible way this couple is working together on this --the fact that she tried to void mediation says she won't cooperate with him on anything, and on the contrary would instantly rat him out on any misdeed. My guess is she is delusional and with that often comes no sense of consequences and the notion that they can get away with anything their disturbed minds cook up. Also, no one in her family has offered to take the 4 year old. All this adds up this way for me: Her family and friends know she has serious mental problems and therefore likely would not hide the baby for her. At least not now that this is front page news everywhere in the world. So my guess is this (and God please let me wrong): The child died over the weekend or earlier and she did something with the body before she stopped her car and set this ridiculous ruse in motion. The older child told police the baby was in a blanket (and the blanket was still in the car --but I think that was a ruse to fool the other child, something wrapped to look like a baby). I don't think she had an accomplice or will ever confess. (Now, if she did have an accomplice then there is still hope the child is alive, so I hope I am wrong.) But she will be arrested soon, and if the child shows up alive, she will go to jail on various charges. But if the child never shows up or if the body is found...then it is Casey Anthony redux. In any case, this Julia woman knows what has happened here, and it is likely no one else does. But police are a lot smarter than criminals and nut jobs think, and they no doubt already know a lot more than they are saying. Please, please, please let this child be alive and recovered soon!