But do they really? Obviously, someplace like here they do, where the case is dwelled upon and discussed. But when you read the comments to the case when it comes up on other news sites these days, I get the feeling the public mostly has moved on. The prevailing comments seem to either be that LE looked at these guys and found nothing (or even cleared them) or else they would be in trouble, or else those that blame LS for whatever happened.
Whatever their involvement, I'm sure it probably weighs on them (assuming they are normal human beings mentally) whether they are directly responsible or just feel they could've done something differently and nothing happened to her, but I don't get the feeling there is a great pressure coming from the public at large around them. I don't think they are living with the pressures that an OJ Simpson felt if that is what you believe.
They have alot of money, or else every time they looked for a job, tried to rent or even buy in an area where they do check references such as a condo in a nice building, etc, they would possibly be turned down as soon as someone googles their name.
Wherever they settle, eventually, the gossip will follow them, be it much later when they have kids, etc.
And then someday, what happened to Michael Skakel might happen to them. The Martha Moxley case was ice cold, practically buried in a glacier, when finally, someone he went to school with talked.
And yet, if DM is found guilty, it wouldn't surprise me.
Has anybody seen Broadchurch? Although it involved 2 murdered girls, the plot , and the mechanics of the murders
reminds me of the 5N POIs incl. JW though.
***SPOILER WARNING****
Plot:
The dad in his blind anger at catching his niece he fancied having sex with a man accidentally kills her in a rage. But the dad is also guilty of drugging women he meets so he's creepy as well.
He tells the man he will blame him for the murder, and the police will believe him because his DNA is inside his dead niece.
He gives the man rufies to sedate his daughter who was upstairs during all of this while he disposes of the dead girl's body. While he's gone, the other guy gives the daughter the drug but then smothers her after she tells him she saw her dad kill her cousin, and that she saw him having sex with her cousin before the dad got home and caught them.
Another woman gets involved during all this, the guy's girlfriend, who arrives right after the dad has killed his niece and she helps them cover it up. She was completely innocent, but then gets involved, even helping to administer the knockout drug to the remaining girl, and to clean up the mess; even after she knows her boyfriend has been unfaithful she encourages him to smother the other girl.
So now they've each killed one of the girls and cannot turn each other in. In applying it to
Lauren's case, it would involve JR, DB, and JW and only one girl..
Detective realizes the weak link and arrests the girlfriend;
playing dirty by telling the man about the girlfriend's abortion and starting a big fight between them'
And as we know, DB and JR are super dooper tight since boyhood.
IMO, if the 5N are involved, DB is involved. THAT's the reason JR takes the blame alone as the last person to see her, and says his friend was asleep.
JR: friend who helps cover up
JW: jealous uncle
DB: Guy who seduces niece and is caught
Lauren: niece
CR: rufied, but not killed, daughter
idle speculation