By Chuck Hustmyre
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In interviews, Chera Walsh offered up various explanations as to where he daughter might have gone and what might have happened to her. Walsh's predictions ran the gamut from the mundane to the macabre:
· Brianna had gone off alone on a journey of spiritual self discovery.
· She had left for Hawaii to visit her father, a child-support fugitive who was living in a commune on one of the islands.
· Brianna had followed the advice of her new spiritual guru, Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, and had left all of her possessions behind so she could live in what Tolle calls "the now."
· She had suffered a psychotic breakdown.
· Brianna was being held captive by a cult.
· She was shrugging off the mortal world and had walked off into the wilderness to die.
Unfortunately, Chera Walsh's most disturbing prediction turned out to be her most prescient.
Sweet Grass County Sheriff Dan Tronrud said temperatures in the area around the time Brianna disappeared were in the 30s, but with gusts up to 40 miles per hour raking the Montana landscape, the wind chill may have dipped close to zero. It was more than cold enough for a deadly case of hypothermia.
"This looks like she basically just laid down," Sheriff Tronrud told Crime Library. "There's no criminal activity here at all. There's no foul play involved in this. This was some bad decisions made by a young 17-year-old girl that cost her life."
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