So no press conference on the 3 year mark. Since LE has 'nothing new to report'. 3 years later and we are on our second sketch. At least one LE member is unsure if there 2 persons involved. We really don't if LE has DNA from the killer based on the coy statements from them. And if they have DNA - and I don't know they couldn't have found some - LE probably doesn't know if they have the killer's DNA. Since the sketch is not really from an eyewitness to the crime or aftermath, I've lost confidence in the sketch or, rather, sketches. LE has 50K in tips for a crime that occurred in a county that only has 20K persons per Wikipedia and yet nothing.
I'm thinking this killer - if there was only one - hasn't said anything to anyone. And since over 2 years passed before the 2nd sketch came out there probably isn't anyone around the killer who remembers if he was absent that day. At this point I don't believe a tip is going to do it. Unfortunately, there will probably have to another murder and killer not be so lucky the next time and gets caught. And then LE makes the connection on DNA. If they have the killer's DNA.
This is really disappointing. Maybe the slogan, "Today is the Day" should be changed to "This year is the year". Maybe.
“This millennium is the millennium”.
I think the case is so sensationalized, and lots of people are so loud, and so many Youtubers jumped on it, that it is hard to even understand what was happening in the girls’ lives. It is shocking how much we know about some marginal unimportant figures (like RL, for example), and how little in reality about the central figures, their schools, families, lives. I don’t want to carry on because I don’t want the thread to be closed. I am just getting off this thread unless we are allowed to bring in other witnesses, the school, the friends, the teachers, the community.
I think Gray Hughes’ and other crime Youtubers role is negative. I have to say it. We never heard the story from a totally unbiased position. It is exceptionally unidirectional, and the narrative is controlled. It probably hurt the case.
I understand why the case is so hard to solve. We really get all the information from one angle. Other people are simply silent. Or silenced. Who can name the case where everything, podcasts, shows, the narrative would be so one-sided? We essentially hear the same people, and the two I never listened to, are spectacularly absent.
I don’t blame anyone. I think it happened naturally, the families asked to help solve the case, and then all our Youtubers who haven’t solved a single case in their lives, jumped on this one for own purposes. And now it is not a case, it is a tale.
The only comment - in the process, someone’s life might be ruined. If that duo whose faces are all over the YouTube, just because someone reminds a video, are guilty, it is one thing. If they are innocent, in their place, I’d call a lawyer and do something about it.