If you consider everything in context of "Oh my God, they are going to think I did this" or "Oh my God, they think I did this" then the next thought or advice they will get is to get an attorney. And once they had attorneys they are acting exactly like you'd expect any POI to do in most ways. In the case of JR, he's had a private poly that they claim to have turned over to LE. He also met with the parents. Those aren't even things you'd expect to happen if the attorneys had concerns about their client.
It's things like that that make this case so hard to understand from the outside looking in. And who among the PsOI returned to Bloomington? Returning to Bloomington under a cloud of suspicion is also hard to understand (not likely to do if guilty, and I wouldn't think an attorney would advise it knowing a client will be watched and suspected).
As said above, there's nothing to be gained by 'trying to clear their names', unless there is some indisputable piece of evidence the public doesn't know about, because it'll just be words that are dissected and turned inside out and made to fit whatever preconceived notions people already have about the case. Not much to gain with that when they can simply let things fade into the background. This case is fading from the public view right now. The stories have dried up. The lawsuit has been tossed out. LE is not talking. Media is moving on. If any PsOI were to speak they'd put it back into the spotlight. That simply is not going to happen because I'm sure they have been advised not to do that and to let the spotlight be turned off and let the case be forgotten by the public. And that is what is happening. The longer they go without an arrest the better the chance the public that still remembers will start seeing that as 'evidence' (in their mind) of the PsOI's 'innocence'. While the spotlight was on them I'm sure there was a lot of pressure, but as the spotlight has dimmed, the pressure releases. The attorneys know that is how this works. Stay quiet, stay out of the media, let the attorneys handle the parents, media, public, LE, and PI's.... I'm certain that would be the advice their attorneys gave them. And doing that is not evidence of guilt... It's doing what your attorney says and why you are paying them $$$$.
I'd like to say obviously somebody has to be guilty but I'm not even sure we know for a fact something didn't happen like with the kid at Purdue a few years ago that they found in a power room who had wandered in drunk and electrocuted himself. Especially with the construction that was going on at the time.
I still consider 5N or JW the most likely to be involved... JW statistically and due to circumstances, and 5N due to timing and circumstances. But I haven't seen one piece of "AHA!" evidence pointing in either direction that has been released to the public.
It's things like that that make this case so hard to understand from the outside looking in. And who among the PsOI returned to Bloomington? Returning to Bloomington under a cloud of suspicion is also hard to understand (not likely to do if guilty, and I wouldn't think an attorney would advise it knowing a client will be watched and suspected).
As said above, there's nothing to be gained by 'trying to clear their names', unless there is some indisputable piece of evidence the public doesn't know about, because it'll just be words that are dissected and turned inside out and made to fit whatever preconceived notions people already have about the case. Not much to gain with that when they can simply let things fade into the background. This case is fading from the public view right now. The stories have dried up. The lawsuit has been tossed out. LE is not talking. Media is moving on. If any PsOI were to speak they'd put it back into the spotlight. That simply is not going to happen because I'm sure they have been advised not to do that and to let the spotlight be turned off and let the case be forgotten by the public. And that is what is happening. The longer they go without an arrest the better the chance the public that still remembers will start seeing that as 'evidence' (in their mind) of the PsOI's 'innocence'. While the spotlight was on them I'm sure there was a lot of pressure, but as the spotlight has dimmed, the pressure releases. The attorneys know that is how this works. Stay quiet, stay out of the media, let the attorneys handle the parents, media, public, LE, and PI's.... I'm certain that would be the advice their attorneys gave them. And doing that is not evidence of guilt... It's doing what your attorney says and why you are paying them $$$$.
I'd like to say obviously somebody has to be guilty but I'm not even sure we know for a fact something didn't happen like with the kid at Purdue a few years ago that they found in a power room who had wandered in drunk and electrocuted himself. Especially with the construction that was going on at the time.
I still consider 5N or JW the most likely to be involved... JW statistically and due to circumstances, and 5N due to timing and circumstances. But I haven't seen one piece of "AHA!" evidence pointing in either direction that has been released to the public.