I wish news reporters would be precise in their language. For example, today we have read something that claims the victims were held hostage "till SS gave them what they wanted."
That implies that, in the end, they got something that SS was withholding from them all those hours.
Yet it seems SS was a puppet in their hands as he obeyed their wishes about who to call and what to say. Yet, we are led to believe that for all that time, he had the fortitude to withhold that "certain something" that would end the nightmare?????
If the police know what they wanted, they know why they came. That's a big deal. If they know they were successful, they know a lot more of the story at this point then currently revealed.
But then again, this could just be an assumption or a careless turn of phrase. Too much of that these days in journalism.