I've read through all the old threads. This group sure has covered a lot, some of it familiar to me and some new. I also re-watched the Esme Murphy and Julie Nelson interviews of DR. I thought I remembered another video interview of DR from the time, but couldn't find it. I think, if I recall correctly, he was wearing a blue or turquoise polo shirt in it. Does anyone remember that one (or am I remembering wrong?)
In the older interview ("I wasn't going to waste my time") he seemed odd, but I know we didn't get to see the whole interview. In the 2010 interviews, DR did a good job convincing me. I know people have done all sorts of statement analysis, but when I read the SA separate from watching the videos it seems much more suspicious than in the context of what he is actually saying or responding to.
Here are some questions and things that stick with me from reviewing the old threads:
1.) Lots of talk about the abductor "shopping" for a specific age child. Earlier this was thought to indicate pedo ring, but later people mentioned that he could have been taking a child "to order" to bring to someone closer by (even a visitor in a nearby house).
2.) Sheriff does not completely rule out possibility of a vehicle, but IDing Kevin's car (along with fact that kids didn't hear a vehicle) "diminishes" the likelihood.
3.) So many of the links from old threads are now broken, so it's hard to know for sure, but it seems like LE has kept their suspicions close enough to the vest that we do not really know who has been finally ruled out, or who is a suspect. So, e.g, we don't know if certain priests, or Bahners, or LK, are on or off the list. I see nothing about LE reaction to the Stearns Truth tapes, discredited or not. DR is only named POI, but doesn't mean he's the only POI.
(Correct me if there is info about any of this...especially because I miss so much by not having all links working.)
4.) I read one mention (but no working link) that possibly DR had at first told LE that he had not been home alone, that his parents were home. Wish I could know if that were true.
I'm not naive: Even though I say DR sounds very convincing, and in context of rewatching it I am more understanding about some of the things that sound odd in print, I know people can deceive.
Glad this conversation is still going after all these years. I see some of you have been on it since the start.