I hear you Houndstooth......but is it really up to us here at WS or any other crime forum, to solve these cases? That is what LE is for. That is what they are paid to do. We are just amateur sleuths who have absolutely No right to any information deemed case sensitive. As I have said as long as these families fully cooperate with LE there is just no need for us to know EVERYTHING.
"If they have nothing to hide, what's the problem"?--Oh...how many times has a mother, father, sister, brother been convicted in the public for something they said, only later to be vindicated. Do they really need to go thru any more HELL then they already are? If and until a family member is named a suspect they should be left alone, IMOO--that is all I am sayin, but that's just me.
It is all speculation with us, because we will never have ALL the facts, right?
It IS LE's job. In a perfect world, all crimes would get solved.
But, they don't.
Missing persons cases are low on the totem pole in reality.
On the HB case we learned there are about 1,500 unsolved cases in Tennessee alone!
Dare I wonder what the count is in California?
These cases are not revenue enhancers, but revenue drains.
They would much rather make drug busts where they can get cars and cash and homes, etc.
LE is like the rest of the population, some are honest and some are dishonest.
Same with the media. Their whole purpose has less to do about informing the public than increasing their bottom lines also.
I think Clu has the right idea. Cultivate reporters and let them know we are watching them. We notice when reports don't jive with previous facts.
We need for LE to know we are watching also. They are public servants, yes, but at the same time, there are political considerations that weigh more than truth, in their eyes.
If they really were dedicated to stopping pedophilia rings and kidnapping enterprises, they would be stopped in their tracks.
We live in a world of high tech surveillance. They know who the kingpins are but they rarely are prosecuted. They know who is clicking on the sites and taking part.
That to me is our role here, not to necessarily solve crimes but to at least give them a fighting chance against an onslaught against our children by putting pressure on the system at all levels.