I agree with you and I think the Sheriff does this young couple with the missing child a terrible injustice if they did indeed pass their polys.
The targets have been on their backs from day one.
I am quite aware polys are not allowed in court and can be off but in just about every missing person case they are administered and LE goes from there.
MOO
In missing children cases rarely does LE rule anyone out. Nor do they release the results of a poly to the media/public.
The way we usually know a poly result is if the one/s taking it speaks out in the media.
I have wished on many cases such as this that LE would come out and either state they passed a poly or rule the family members out altogether. But it just doesn't usually happen.
There have been maybe two or three cases that I can remember out of hundreds of cases when a child was missing where LE did that by ruling out the parent/s by name.
In fact it is rare even when a missing adult is involved or even if the body is found and is an unsolved homicide. It seems more often they don't rule anyone out and when there is an arrest (if one) is when the public is aware of who the suspect is and who was not. When the suspect is arrested then the others are ruled out by default and that is how the police usually does it.
I got the impression he really doesn't suspect the parents. I don't find it suspicious that he is not revealing the results of the poly. He is just keeping all of his options open as he should and that way he doesn't box himself in.
But when he did say if anyone saw Deorr it made me feel he does think it is a possibility he has been abducted and the fact that he truly believes the area has been searched thoroughly. It really doesn't take but a blink of an eye for someone to nab a child. Unfortunately we have discussed many such cases over the years. At his age he easily could have been enticed even if the person told him they would go buy him candy if he came with them. We have seen the many shows that show how easily a small child can be lead away by someone they don't know. Its terrifying to watch but children are still very naïve and trusting. Deorr wouldn't even have those instincts at his age to recognize danger.
I have never suspected these parents. Imo, he was either abducted or he is there some place unfound at the time. It is an area that would be very unkind to a little child if they wandered off. Them not finding him doesn't mean he isn't there. We have seen cases that entailed many searches, which were suppose to be thorough... only for someone much later on, even years... to stumble upon the remains. Finding a tiny body is literally like looking for a tiny needle in a haystack.
LE never really cares who the public hones in on or who thinks someone is suspicious. I guess they feel it isn't their place to come out do so because so many times in cases like this the family members are seen as the possible suspects by the internet masses even when later on it turned out they weren't guilty of anything but losing a child. In some of those cases the police knew behind the scene all along the parent/s had nothing to do with their child being missing. Yet, not once, did they come out and try to quell the rampant speculation even when they knew they weren't involved. I wish they would do this but most LE just doesn't do it no matter how much the parents are left twisting in the wind with suspicion casted on them.
IMO
