Theories and Speculations
D’Anna’s investigation revealed a column that announced the Roths’ marriage in 1931 and that they were traveling west for an extended time before moving back to Davenport. Using that information, the Roths might have been frequent visitors to the state of Arizona. But if that was so, then how did the young couple, whose car broke down, find Elliot in the desert?
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One theory is that Ed and Julia Stewart, the couple who found Elliot on Christmas Eve, fabricated the story. D’Anna mused that perhaps the Stewarts knew that Faith, Elliot’s adoptive mother, wanted a child and also knew that the Roths were in a fix with a child about to be born only four months after their marriage. But this story seems a bit too far-fetched to be true.