You speak for all of us, Doc, and have managed to sum this all up very well--as a parent, with a child who has recently taken a plunge into the real world in a big city, is a bit like someone else living one of my nightmares, and I am holding on to the Mossad story, and have cooked up a couple of other unlikely possibilities on my own--one of the saving graces is that every possibility is unlikely--

Years ago, in my home town, a man walked into a gift shopped, held it up at gunpoint, and kidnapped the sixteen year old girl who worked behind the counter, she was the daughter of a former and popular mayor--there was a monumental search, but she disappeared without a trace. The town alternated between hope and despair for months--there was no resolution, and gradually, other things occupied peoples minds--One of the homicide investigators was a the father of a close friend, and he told me later that he never got over it, it connected with like no other case did, because she was only a few years younger than his daughter--

The sad ending came nearly 15 years later (if I remember correctly) when the remains of a young girl were found in an isolated wooded area--too late for him--