Peter Stivers, son of Bess and step-son of Higginbotham, said he suspected that his parents' shady past would come up as media attention grew.
Missing for Ten Years, Now Home Again

Tanya Kach was 14 years old when she went missing. She is now 24 and by befriending a deli owner, the "Sparico" referred to in the quote below, she was discovered and re-united with her family.

If ever a story had way more to it than currently in the public knowledge, it has to be this one. Her "abductor" is a school security guard, Thomas Hose. Tanya was kept against her will, so she alleges, by Hose, who also lives with his elderly parents.

Now for ten years this guy kept Kach captive right under his parents' nose and they didn't notice? Indeed, Tanya was out and about, witness her deli-owner friend. And she couldn't plea for safe release? Further, Hose's attorney is currently all over the airwaves declaring his client completely innocent and this is in "no way" a kidnap case.

Getting away from "blaming the victim" mentality, Tanya was only 14-years old at the time of her "abduction." Hose was considerably older and even if he and Tanya were in love or some such, this is still a crime. Yet Tanya is now 24 and if it can't be proven that she was held against her will, do any charges of statutory rape still stand?

From ABCnews.com

Sparico told "Good Morning America" the alleged captor is a security guard at a school, and that he brainwashed her into thinking that her family didn't want her anymore.

He and Kach had allegedly concocted a cover story, telling people that she'd met him when he was 18 and he was working as a security guard at a mall.

Sparico said Kach told him she was kept in a bedroom in the house of her captor's parents. She said the parents were unaware she was there, because he locked her in when he went to work.

Besides having the earmarks of a fledgling serial murder, lies by bar owners, and possible other connected crimes, all reported here on a recent true crime article, the murder of Imette St. Guillen takes another twist. And it's not good.

For Darryl Littlejohn, the ex-con bar bouncer and alleged murderer of St. Guillen, is prone to nosebleeds. Which could explain the presence of Littlejohn's blood on those cable ties used to bind St. Guillen's hands.

It would seem, as I speculate, that Littlejohn's defense will be that his blood on the cable ties, even the cat hairs on the blanket, are all because he worked at The Falls bar and these items are allegedly from the basement of that bar.