A large gasp rose from the crowd. Although authorities declined to say what they believe the motive is, CNN reported Thursday night that police have a letter from Smith's boyfriend saying he did not want a ready-made family. The boyfriend was described by sources as a wealthy man and is not Mitch Sinclair, who had been identified earlier as a friend of Smith's. That woman hurt a lot of people. The children's grandmother, Barbara Benson of Garden City, said her son, David, was shattered by the news.
Nobody knows why.
I mean nobody knows the motive, I guess. Munn said officials began to doubt a carjacking had taken place early in the investigation because of inconsistencies in Smith's statements. She said the man forced her to drive at gunpoint along Highway 49, made her get out of the car near John D. Long Lake and then drove away with her two children still in the car. Smith knocked on the door of a house near the lake entrance about 10 p.m. and said her children had been taken. She told the occupants of the house her children had been kidnapped.