A WSleuther had as a quote something to the effect of:
"When you create a monster don't act surprised when all villagers arrive at your doorstep with torches and pitchforks."
Kind of sums it up for me.
In my opinion, these folks were NOT shrinking violets, dodging cameras, saying "no comment"! Right out of the box they went on GVS. We saw them on every news station known to man (even Telemundo, right), giving interviews on their lawn, giving "exclusives", locals were told to "get off their asses and find her", hammers were waived, hoses were sprayed, little guys were shoved off the swale, bloggers were called leeches, parasites and scumbags, squirrels were blamed, rotting pizza was blamed, an innocent person was blamed (in my opinion), we were told "people were being watched", we were told Casey knew who had Caylee, a bounty hunter comes to town on request and bails out Casey, she comes HOME instead of going to a safe house (right to the big top), she says nothing, she goes back to jail and is bailed out again (and goes home again), pictures of Caylee are distributed and "sold", Caseys is on People magazine, 20/20, money, money, money, massive searches are done, and called off, and done again, Casey is called "sweetheart" and "mother of the year" and all the while poor little Caylee laid double-bagged and rotting but a hop, skip and jump down the street. Literally.