I Guess I'm Missing Something Yet Again

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A tragic story has developed in northwestern Indiana. Two girls, one 14 and one 13, were found murdered along a hiking trail near Delphi, which is near Lafayette (home of Purdue University). The two girls were dropped off on a hiking trail near an abandoned railroad bridge by a family member on Monday. When they didn't return they were reported missing. Their bodies were found the next day. So I'm missing something here. It wouldn't be the first time. First, it was Monday. Shouldn't these kids have been in school? Secondly, and far more significantly, who on this earth lets a 13-year-old and a 14-year-old kid go out in the wilderness by themselves? Yes, I may have been protected by my mother when I was that age, but we aren't talking about going to Janie's house for a sleep-over. We're talking about letting two children walk on a railroad bridge near a river without any supervision or protection! Police have a photograph of a man seen in the area at the same time the kids were dropped off (which is another red flag to me: my mom never let me go to the school playground if she saw older kids, especially guys only, hanging out...she'd just drive on past it). I don't know which is worse to me: the crime itself, or what I consider lackadaisical decision-making by the parents.