If someone is accountable for Echo's disappearance, the person or persons responsible remain a threat to others. A lot of small communities, especially in rural areas, are struggling with increased criminal activity.
The same kind of people are involved in drugs, robbery, break-ins at people's homes and businesses, stealing catalytic converters from cars, assault, murder, child abuse, domestic violence, etc.
The problem has to be dealt with. These people need to be held responsible for their criminal activity and removed from these communities. Citizens are fed up with having to live with these criminals in their midst. I've read it in the online comments at local news sites from communities not far from this one.