The Insider Component of the Abduction

I wonder what would have happened to stop this kid from screaming as he's being carried down by a stranger in the cold when he already hasn't felt well. It seems pretty clear that when he took Charles Jr. and he started to go down the ladder, because janky homemade ladder did not hold him up or he was moving so fast, he broke it. The parents don't know the boy's been killed. And so if this is a ransom situation, they're not planning on ever giving the boy back alive. They're just looking to get the money. I mean, it's possible the offender just strangled this boy, killed him right away, and now takes the body with