Same. It's like he vanished into thin air.
I wonder if he has no close living relatives, and is a recluse with no friends or even acquaintances. His neighbors might think he's just kind of weird guy, if they even think of him at all (or have even ever seen him out and about).
JMO (or random thoughts, I should say)
Noop! I don't believe for a
nano-second that he has "no close living relatives", or is a recluse, etc. What he
does have?
Immediate family that are
frightened.out.of.their.minds.
So frightened, in fact, that even though they
know that telling LE about their relative is "the right thing to do", they are afraid of, oh -- soo many things: afraid of
him (
What'll he do when he finds out that we were the ones who turned him in?), afraid of
their futures (
We'll have to move! Everyone who's known us for years will shun us, or never again want to do business with us, etc., etc., re:
their employment/employers, etc.), and just...
filled with fears (after all, who can even begin to imagine what it would be like to be, say, immediate family members living in the
same town,
highly respected, seeing the suspect perhaps weekends, or once a week, etc.,
wondering if he might turn his
angry impulses on
them, murdering
them?
n. b. While I have nothing other than MOO on this, I'm thinking that the suspect did not
directly tell his family; rather, I think that he "ambiguously" told someone (i. e., told someone
indirectly, without actually
telling the "what" of his crime) who
does know his family/at least one of his parents very well (and imagine how
awful it would be, to have to have the burden of
that knowledge). How
thankful I was last evening to see & hear Supt. DC on a video link that a WS-er provided from a very recent interview that someone (the Armchair Detective? not sure) had with DC. During the course of that brief interview, DC
very clearly stated that LE
will protect [the informant]. Hearing *that* was a great "bright spot" in this case, I thought. (They've probably said it privately, LE to each other, but...have never been
so clear about that as DC was on the short video I saw/heard last evening.) Sorry I'm not good at locating things yet here on WS, or I'd post it for everyone to watch...
That "offer of protection" -- by
LE -- very well *may* be a game-changer in this case. Praying that the suspect's family and confidante(s) will DO the right thing, and SOON.