Thank you for a heartfelt, sobering post.
I'm sure that The State is hearing the family and wants to close the cases against KM and MT as quietly as possible, too.
Justice may need to take a backseat to love for the children and the family.
With great hope that the defendants will cooperate to that goal, also.
And, perhaps, assist in bringing Jennifer home.
Quoting myself, as the above has created heartfelt conflict.
I went back and reread a NYT's article about the JFD case.
Jennifer Dulos: How the Police Made a ‘No-Body’ Murder Case (Published 2020)
From the article, after stating CT prosecutors did not respond was the following:
[...]"One law enforcement official familiar with the case said investigators
had gathered far more evidence than they have so far disclosed.
The charges brought against Mr. Dulos and two others accused of conspiracy to commit murder, Michelle C. Troconis, 45, Mr. Dulos’s girlfriend, and Kent D. Mawhinney, 54, a friend,
were based on more than what was disclosed in the warrants, the official said." [...]
MT needs to keep this in mind as her attorney continues his civil rights parade. He seems to be bargaining of NP's argument about "no body, no crime." It's probably time for him to look at the evidence he's been given, however.
[...]“We defy the state to prove that she is in fact dead,” one of Mr. Dulos’s lawyers, Norm Pattis, said last week. (From the 1/2020 article)
The remarkable statistic cited about no body cases is worth noting:
]...]Murder charges brought without a body are relatively rare. These cases require a voluminous cache of circumstantial evidence both to establish the involvement of the accused and to show that the victim was definitively killed.
But the extra burden might actually make convictions more likely.
Mr. DiBiase has tracked just 526 such cases that have gone to trial in the United States since the early 19th century. Of them,
86 percent resulted in a conviction, he said.
Nationally, the conviction rate for
all murder cases is 70 percent, according to the
federal Bureau of Justice Statistics. [...]
MT and KM need to put on their thinking caps and start remembering anything they know about the actual murder and disposal of the body. The State is willing to work with them, it appears.
(All bolding by me...and MOO...IMO)