Julie Purcell is the 2015 interviewer
Huge stretch since she doesn't look 45

mahershala ali's wife ends up being the baddie.

- she has already confessed to travelling to random cities and pretending to be someone else. she has a sociopath vibe.

- sociopaths prob love the idea of becoming super famous crime novel authors, esp ones that they manufacture

- she preys on the kids with the ****ed up family, finds the ones who are agreeable to getting out of their hellish life and onto something better. when she told mahershala ali she didnt know the kid too well, that was a lie. like he says, assume everything is a lie from the start. she prob knew him for months and was his closest confidant on some deep ****.

- arranges for them to be taken away the week after halloween. uses the puppets as a diversion to make people think its a local neighbor

- as the kids are willingly taken away, she leaves the girl with her white bf and takes the boy by herself (since the boy trusts her). they split up and agree to meet up in the next town over.

- she kills the boy herself. booyah, enough threads to start a wild goose chase. another theory... she prob successfully convinced the 10 year old girl that she killed her brother. thats why she stays hidden all this time. lion king ****.

- some other future **** that will probably confuse the entire town but can easily be explained by it having been committed by mahershala ali's wife

- mahershala ali's daughter peaces out because she suspects her mom was in some way responsible and notices the mom's deep sociopathy.

- the show in 2015 was orchestrated by the daughter, and she wants the big reveal to be that there's now proof that the killer was actually his dead wife

- B O O M

Also shared the thought that Julie Purcell is behind the interview in 2015. As noted above I wanted the interviewer to actually be her, but way too young. And I'm guessing the kid's dad is the one who ends up being wrongfully convicted that "the family" (his parents which we are introduced to) are trying to overturn in 1990

in regard to the hole, the detectives aren't all over the uncle likes flies on ****.

she knows that because she's the boy's teacher, a detective is gonna come looking for her. then it's her goal to hook up with detective. gives her an insider view on the investigation and sees ways that she can manipulate it to her liking.

theme of the show is how mahershala is the GOAT tracker but in the face of love he becomes the WOAT tracker.

I really hate the theories that the wife or interviewer have anything to do with it. I think the interviewer will be totally unrelated. She's way too young and her question about racism seems so confusing & unnecessary if that was a twist coming up.

The wife seems a bit more likely but it still seems incredibly farfetched. I hope it's not true tbh. And I was someone who actually liked the "Marty is the yellow king" theory. I fear I would hate this.