I still don’t understand why LE are taking the chance of not finding Molly by not giving a solid timeline for the public to offer up leads. In other cases it helps solve cases. Why are they so close lipped with this particular case?
This has been asked over and over. Being tight lipped is very common these days as releasing info publicly has made it impossible to verify whether a suspect is telling the truth when they confess or if they accidentally incriminate themselves.
Everyone criticizing the lack of info assumes LE is "risking the case". I don't. I think they know much more about how to work their cases than we do.
Sometimes info is released in cases because LE believes the release is necessary to further tips. Clearly they just don't feel that's the case here.
I also think it's pretty illogical to suggest that people in this rural, small town area, obsessed with and inundated with this case, are going to ignore anything, no matter how small, that could possibly, remotely be connected to the case, that occurred between 5:30 pm the day before she went missing to the following day at 5:30 pm simply because the exact timeline has not been released.
I'm sorry. Doesn't make sense. This case is all these people are thinking about right now. And it just makes no sense.
They're receiving hundreds and hundreds of tips.
Frankly I think sometimes people feel they know better than LE and it's pretty presumptuous.
Yes, LE occasionally doesn't do what they need to do. You can sort of tell when the family begins to express frustration, or takes matters into their own hands, like in Elizabeth Smart's case.
But at this point there is nothing to suggest that people in the region are going, "Yeah, I saw a young woman struggling with a man but I don't know the timeline so it may not be relevant." Or, "Well my co-worker didn't show up the day Mollie was reported missing. He took the rest of the week off and has been acting strange lately. But without more info, I just don't see how it's important."
Or whatever.
This is all the people in that region, county and nearby counties are talking about, sadly.
I think if and when they feel information needs to be released to help the case they will release it.