If you have ever had someone you love go missing you would know that you’d leap to do whatever it takes to find that loved one.
Take a lie detector test. Talk to cops without an attorney. Hand over your phones, computers, car. Allow them to search you, your body or your home without a warrant. On and on.
I don’t go off what criminal defense attorneys advise in cases like this. And my law partner is one, who I adore. I go off human nature.
In 16 years of being a websleuther and many more researching true crime, I have never seen an innocent person (or at least one proven to be innocent) refuse to do whatever it takes to find their child or partner. At least not in those initial, horrible weeks. The only time I’ve seen innocent people put the brakes on is when they’re arrested. Like poor Kevin Fox, the father of Riley.
The agony of having someone you love missing, fearing the worst, bargaining with God to get them back, makes a person do anything they can to find them.
Just like people run into burning houses to rescue their loved ones, with no regard to their own safety.
Even when they’re being torn apart by LE, people that desperate don’t care. Their freedom, their constitutional rights, none of that matters to them at that moment.
I’m an attorney and I would immediately do ANY of that if my loved one was missing. Because nothing else would matter to me and I’d be desperate to help the investigation so they could be found.