One thing that has always struck me as odd about Malik's case is the parents (both the dad, mom, his girlfriend, and other family members) lack of interest (or what appears to be lack of interest) in this case. I know the mom has posted a few times on Facebook, and I believe she has done a media interview or two in the early stages but that's about it that I've seen.
In other cases I've followed, the parents are ALL over the media, holding press conferences, answering questions, BEGGING people to come forward with any information, raising reward funds, conducting private searches, organizing search parties, hiring private investigators -- it just makes me wonder what are the family members in this case doing?
I'm not blaming them, as I've (thankfully) never been in their position and can't say I would know exactly how to handle it, but I do know if my 2 year old was missing and I truly believed that he wandered out our front door, I would be doing EVERYTHING I could to bring him home. I understand everyone handles things differently, but it's unusual to see a case like this where the parents are so MIA.