katydid23
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I think you bring up excellent points, and if you consider only the prosecution's accusations, it makes sense that Chase is guilty. Here's the thing....many of us have been following this case since the family went missing almost 10 years ago, an immense amount of research and sleuthing has been done over the years. Chase is not the only shady character with shady behavior before and after the family went missing. I fear that the Chase Merritt bug was planted in LE's ear and they developed tunnel vision, not because they had it in for Chase, but because he was the "obvious suspect" with a lengthy criminal record and known pieces of the puzzle fit well enough together. My problem with this case is that I don't think enough investigation was done on others that might have been involved in some way. A silly example: 5 kids grab a cookie out of the cookie jar, only ONE gets punished for it, because he's the problem kid that is usually in trouble and mom is just too busy and tired to deal with punishing all of them.
Another silly example but bear with me: when people meet me and my son, I always get "awww....he looks so much like you!" Until later when they meet my husband, it's always "oh I thought he looked like you, but wow he REALLY looks like his dad!" I feel like I haven't been given the chance to see the "Dad" in this case. IOW, yes Chase looks guilty, but I don't feel like I can completely be comfortable that he is the guy and he is the ONLY guy unless I am 100% sure that EVERY possible suspect was completely and thoroughly investigated and cleared. And right now I'm not convinced that that was done.
At the very least, Merritt knew that something had gone down. Did he do it? Or did he just take advantage of that and stick his hand in the cookie jar? I just want to be sure that the right person(s) are punished for this crime. And I realize that I am owed nothing, and it will be the jury that decides, and I can't control what LE or how LE does or doesn't investigate. These are just my random thoughts, I have no horse in this race.
I totally get what you are saying and I have similar feelings. I have wondered if CM knew Joey wasn't coming back, not because he did it, but because he knew something else happened. And I totally believe he would have tried to steal from the account, if so.
But there are 2 problems with this for me. One, why did he write that check on the 2nd? Joey was still around.
And 2, once he was under suspicion, and then arrested, why didn't he telll them what happened?