The Mysterious Disappearance of Elaine Park Elaine Park was the girl who disappeared without a trace. What was most likely a suicide still leaves people mystified at the very conflicting circumstances. What happened to her? After watching the video about her experience, it is clear that her mental state led to an overwhelming feeling of hopelessness, along with lack of evidence to point towards foul play. It is my opinion that Elaine decided she would take her own life, something sadly way too common. Elaine Park was severely mentally incapacitated, non compliant and isolated herself from everyone close to her months before her disappearance. On Elaine’s social media, she unfriended/blocked all of her childhood friends; within the time the day she …show more content…
Elaine could’ve also felt trapped, hopeless if you would. Elaine was attending post-high school education sometime before her disappearance but stopped attending. This tells me she wasn’t enjoying her studies and wished she had taken a different path, or she had already decided her fate. Elaine also had a job at a restaurant that she’d lost as well, leaving her struggling financially. Elaine enjoys creating art and music. She used this art creation as a coping strategy to distract herself from the pain of a sexual assault that had happened to her previously. That assault made her feel alone and isolated. She had said creating art could no longer mask her pain, and she couldn’t cope with the awful act that happened to her. All these examples show Elaine had felt nothing to live for and would be better off dead, that she was too depressed after the assault. Along with the overwhelming fact that Elaine was mentally unstable, everyone suspected to be involved has been heavily investigated by law enforcement. Especially her boyfriend Divine Compare. She had a rough relationship with her mother, but that, by no means, makes her a killer. Divine Compare, through the evidence we’ve