The camp's concern has been the worry of bad publicity for the camp, To my knowledge, LE has the campers names, but in today's world of private information, they don't want to share that with us.
Let me say this, staff was at least questioned, I don't believe at that time, anyone stuck out as a perpetrator, and for the longest time, "they" thought Connie walked away and would turn up at family or friends. Searches, conducted on horseback, some lead by Connie's father as well as local riding clubs, continued until winter weather hampered further searching by this method.
At that period in law enforcement history, police did not investigate missing people or children, as sad as that sounds, but Connecticut's commissioner of state police kept the pressure on his men to continue the search, maybe not with the idea of finding her alive by then, but that she had gotten lost and perished in the elements. Ground searches went on for months, with special patrols searching back country, abandon property, as well as following up leads from around the country. The thought that she might have been abducted and slain by a pedophilic was not on anybodies radar, not that LE did not think she may have met with foul play or could have, at the hands of someone, it is the who that has alluded them. There has been a few suspects, but evidence lacking. Pedophilic persons were found to have worked in area camps, and once found to be so, we're fired from that camp but was hired by another camp in the area. The person or persons were eliminated because they were seen working at the time of her disappearance.
A few things have floated around in my mind, one, could Connie have witnessed something at camp that she felt was unfair or worst, and two, once she was reported missing did the person she may have felt was the problem and the reason she needed to seek outside help, be a person with a vehicle at the camp, who may have picked her up and took care of the problem, by killing and hiding the body. And three, it was a crime of opportunity not planned. A person drove by, picked her up, with the whole idea of helping get her to town, and disposed of her, who knows where after who knows what kind of injuries. Remember Route 44, which was the roadway she walked, was a main thoroughfare moving people and cargo from cities east to cities west. Way before any federal expressways were developed. So it could be a person outside of the local.
And I have to agree ,that finding and speaking to tent mates today, might open the door to a whole unknown reason or reasons of why Connie left that day. Perhaps enough time, age of the people along with maturity may have gone by whereas they might want to clear the air.
On the other hand, a visit to camp by Connie's mother and grandparents to celebrate Connie's tenth birthday could have been developed into a disagreement and she wanted to apologize, but without access to a phone, because that was the camp's rule, she left the camp to find one.