Jmo, thinking more about it...LE and everyone are very lucky that someone had the relevant video in this smalltown, where people probably did not feel especially vulnerable. It’s not like the UK or a city, where you can usually count on CCTV. Scary how easily he might have gotten away with this. I doubt his housemates knew. I doubt he was gone more than two hours at most.
I always though she’d be relatively near, within 20 or so miles of home and that a local person could have easily been the perp, home by 10pm. And that only he knew. I hoped but did not count on video. And I knew from the last PC she never made it back from her run. I only stress this at all because LE basically said so at that PC...ruling out the “homework and the late-sent Snapchat. ” Jmo when LE does tell us something...it is because they need help.
What LE got wrong is that the community WAS in danger as the perp not known to Mollie in any significant way, apparently. And this guy, seemingly, was not called in as a tip by anyone as a known nuisance or threat to women or others. The video found him...not a tip, not people telling what they know (no one knows in these cases except the perp).
All jmo...all I really mean to say is listening to police and what they do release and ask for help with answers a lot of questions. All jmo obviously.