Remember Ocean what Dan Abrams of MSNBC said today, that IT MEANS NOTHING for LE to say at this point in time that TH is not a suspect or POI in the case.
It is how LE operates, how they keep the field neutral to help extend the time needed to dot the i's to solve the case and come to the point with the prosecutor's office that the time to make an arrest is finally appropriate IMO. It doesn't mean it isn't what is in the back of their minds, niggling at them to be disproved, until it simply can't be:
" . . . . “Mediaite founder and NBC Chief Legal Analyst Dan Abrams appeared on Today this morning and told Meredith Vieira that all signs point to the investigators telling the family something about Terri Horman that has them distancing themselves from her. Besides Kaine Horman’s open attempts to distance himself from his wife, he issued a joint statement with his ex-wife and Kyron’s biological mother, Desiree Young and her husband, Tony, fully supporting the investigation.
Abrams told Vieira that, to him, this means that either Kaine Horman discovered something on his own that is making him distance himself from his wife, or investigators “said something to him about this investigation which led him to say ‘I’ve got to get out of here,’” and the same is true of Kyron’s mother and her family. That said, Abrams was hesitant to see signs of imminent arrest on the horizon, as all this says is that the family is suspicious, but the authorities have yet to make an indication that they are ready to come to the kind of conclusion that leads to arrest:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/dan-abra...suspect-stepmother-involved-in-disappearance/
PS: The comment about it means nothing that LE have not named her as a suspect or POI in the case, I can't find it on line but heard him say it on TV live. I can't find a complete transcript of what Dan said in the interview. xox
VIEIRA: Dan Abrams is NBC's chief legal analyst. Dan, good morning to you.
Mr. DAN ABRAMS (NBC News Chief Legal Correspondent): Good morning, Meredith.
VIEIRA: The fact that Kyron's father, Kaine Horman, has not only filed for divorce from his wife, Kyron's stepmother, but also taken out this restraining order...
Mr. ABRAMS: Yeah.
VIEIRA: ...what does that say to you?
Mr. ABRAMS: It says to me that the investigators are telling him something, meaning that a parent like this is always going to be informed by the investigators what they know, how they're doing, the progress, etc. It would seem to me that one of two things happened. Either he found something out on his own or much more likely, that the investigators said something to him about this investigation which led him to say, `I've got to get out of here, I've got to protect my other child. I don't want to be in the house.'
VIEIRA: So does that suggest to you that an arrest is imminent in this case?
Mr. ABRAMS: Remember, he doesn't make the decision about an arrest, meaning he makes a decision about what's best for him and for his family.
VIEIRA: I understand that...
Mr. ABRAMS: Yeah.
VIEIRA: ...but given the information that you think he received from the investigators.
Mr. ABRAMS: It's tough to know.
VIEIRA: Yeah.
Mr. ABRAMS: I mean, I'm specifically hesitating because just because he's leaving and saying, `what I know is leading me to want to get out of here' doesn't necessarily mean that the investigators would have enough to move forward at this time. But it does mean that this -- the investigators saying, `oh, she's not a suspect, she's not a person of interest,' that doesn't mean a thing, that's just what they're saying publicly. It's clear behind closed doors that they're saying something to this family that's a little bit different.
VIEIRA: So what is the significance of the statement that the family issued, where everybody signed their name, the father and the mother and the stepfather, but Terri Horman, the -- her name is not there, the stepmother's name?
Mr. ABRAMS: Yeah. Well, I think that in part, that's the family saying, `we are united but not with her.' We are making this statement together but not with his own wife, which is a very big statement on the part of the husband here. I think they're also trying to distance themselves from her while also trying to make sure they don't say too much.
VIEIRA: So where does the case go from here, do you think, Dan?
Mr. ABRAMS: I think that they're close.
VIEIRA: You do?
Mr. ABRAMS: I think -- yeah -- I think that you're seeing a lot of activity now that suggests that the investigators are reaching a new phase. But again, to make an arrest, they want to make sure not just that they have suspicions, not just that they're wondering, not just that things seem to point in a particular direction, they want to make sure that they have enough evidence to move forward. And that's why I distinguish between the actions of the husband and the actions of the investigators.
VIEIRA: So you're saying the investigation's leading the family to do the things they're doing, not the family at all influencing the investigation.
Mr. ABRAMS: It doesn't seem that way because the statement from the family says that the investigators have been updating them on what is happening and that leads me to believe that the investigators and the investigation has led the family to take certain action rather than the other way around.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37992992/ns/today-today_people/