I guess my question is WHY did LE need to know who JW is (remembering at the time, JW nor the police knew anything about the ransom)? They were dealing with a horrible situation. Why would JW go up to tell them "Hey, I work for this family. Can I help you hold a hose or something?" It just doesn't make any sense at all in my head why he would need to point himself out.
I mean, after all...isn't that why y'all think the man is so awful? Because he likes attention? But now you are saying that he should have made himself part of this crime scene. To get attention for himself?
I think given how much he likes attention, it is definitely weird that he didn't take the opportunity to make himself a bigger part of the story (like NG did). His sudden shyness appears to be very out of character for his online persona. I think that LE would want to talk to anyone who was at the house that day, even if it wasn't an arson and the deaths were accidental. If the landscapers showed up at the fire, I believe LE would have wanted to talk to them. LE and fire investigators would want to know what happened leading up to the fire, timelines, how soon the fire could have possibly started, anything unusual around the home, etc.
Either there was something about what JW said when he first approached the officer, or they had information from another source that made LE interested enough in him that they took him directly to homicide to be interviewed. (Apparently, what they heard there made them even more suspicious.) I would think NG was also taken to homicide to be interviewed. I would really like to know that to see if they treated all employees the same. Maybe only the one who was at the house that day was taken downtown. Maybe they only took the ones who showed up at the fire to homicide.
We know JW didn't walk up to the officer and say he delivered $40,000 that morning, because he didn't even give that information to detectives when they first interviewed him.
BTW, IMO there are ways to speak to LE about something that happened at a home before it became a crime scene (or before the witness knows it's a crime scene) that don't involve drawing attention to oneself in MSM or on SM. It's not necessary to do both.