Regarding Victim Friendly and Non Sleuthing of Family ( victims, until otherwise noted by LE )
It's very easy to want to sleuth all the family members. I do understand and when I joined WS ( for Baby Lisa and Dylan Redwine) the idea of NOT sleuthing the family seemed ridiculous to me. It's a very hard rule to understand sometimes. I have now seen many cases where it seemed very obvious who was responsible and we were all wrong. So it's a good thing that RULE was in place. It's probably the most important rule at WS.
I 'll give you an example. A few years ago there was a case similar to this. Child missing from mobile home, middle of the night. It does not happen that often and it's easy to guess who the most logical ' suspect' is. In that case the dad gave some interviews and seemed very odd, said odd things, odd body language and even had a really questionable history that really made him a ' perfect' suspect. Many accusatory posts were removed and many warnings issued. Turns out dad was innocent and the perp was a neighbor. In the mean time dad was raked over the coals in a very, nasty way. There is nothing that can be done about social media but on this forum, he was protected. He was innocent and lost his child and should not have to be subjected to any extra stress in that situation.
I , for one, would not want to be saying ugly things about a grieving parent, even if my intention was good. Choose your words carefully in case you have to eat them.
ETA I am in no way suggesting this case will end up in a similar fashion, not by any stretch of the imagination. Just wanting to clear it up for newer members who are unsure why that rule is in place.
