There were plenty of people I was acquainted with/met casually in college that my roommates/friends weren’t aware of. Not that they were secret, just there was no reason to mention them. Someone I sat w/on the campus bus, smoked a cigarette w/between classes, saw frequently at the library, etc.
And lots more people I might mention to friend whom my family knew nothing about. IMO it’s a bit audacious for any girl’s father to believe he’s aware of everyone she associates with. Especially once she is away at college. Even if he reads her diary and monitors her social media there will be aquaintances omitted by choice or circumstance.
SG’s been told in any number of ways it’s not helpful to comment on the investigation. I understand he’s grieving and my heart breaks for him and all the other families. But I’m a bit taken aback as to why despite LE’s success he persists. It’s an even bigger mystery to me what kind of attorney would willingly serve as this kind of mouthpiece.
JMO
Totally.
I’m going to hold Steve innocent for this offense unless I hear otherwise though, I blame the attorney entirely… He should know better… and what he said, I’m sorry, was an idiot thing for an attorney to say… for exactly all the reasons you mentioned above.
As far as SG seeming a bit audacious for potentially believing he knows every bit of his daughter’s life, in actuality, you are right, there is no way for him to know all of these things… But from everything I can tell, they were a pretty close knit family and when it comes to dads and daughters, I have seen in my own personal experience that it’s a little bit more difficult for dad’s to let go and come to terms with the fact that their daughters are essentially grown and acknowledge that their little girls aren’t so little anymore, so he’s probably completely unaware of the fact that believing he would know every bit of info about his daughter’s friend circle, acquaintances, etc. is no longer realistic being that she was a young woman living in her own world by the time she lost her life. I have sympathy for him, just because I think it’s more difficult for loving dads to come to terms with this.
HOWEVER - good grief, my heart also goes out to him because he’s paying his hard earned money to this attorney who is doing his family no favors by making such an ill-timed, ill-informed, definitive statement. LE themselves said that they would not be discussing if they had uncovered a connection at this point. That means this guy has no business going against them and making statements about this one way or the other. It could be argued that sometimes, the best piece of advice attorneys can give their clients is to just keep their mouths shut… and then there are attorneys like this guy, who should take their own advice. I just hope his big mouth will not cause any problems if they do find out later on that there was some kind of connection (which personally, I believe that there was, even if tiny and seemingly innocuous, perhaps even unbeknownst to the girls — BK went to the third floor for a reason). Can we please just let it all play out at trail and everybody keep their unhelpful comments to them selves in the meantime? For the sake of the victims and their families? And for the sake of justice?
I do just want to add that I’ve seen a few interviews with SG since BK’s arrest, and he seems to have calmed down quite a bit now that he knows LE has been on top of all this. So far, at least in the interviews that I have seen, I have not heard him release any information that he probably shouldn’t be, like in the past. Mainly, I’ve just seen him and his family speaking about how this has and is affecting them, where they go from here, etc. Perhaps there are other interviews out there I am unaware of where he may have said something LE/the prosecution would prefer he not, but I personally have not seen that. I’ve seen him be much more reserved with his comments and careful with his responses. I think he is deliberately trying to make sure he does not say or do anything that could be detrimental to prosecuting BK.
And lastly, I just want to say that I really, really like the Goncalves family. They genuinely seem like they are truly good-hearted, loving, and strong people, and I hope they are able to get just as they are seeking for their daughter.
