I am not going to go back and try to find every post where people have commented how the family has not disclosed information. There is the guy here (I forget his screen name) who is or was a reporter who was given ONLY emails from one account that was used mostly for jobs.
Here's the actual post from
swjaxon. SK used the same email address for everything and had used it for years (even online).
There has been some suggestion by a few that Steven may have been taking medication or that he suffered from some medical condition. No official confirmation on either.
I only remember one person (gsmith) discussing Steven taking a drug, and gsmith didn't even know what it was. It may have been an herbal "supplement" (ultra-common in Utah) for all we know.
Yes, there's been speculation about ADD or something like that -- but that's by us here, and we're not witnesses to Steven.
Many people have asked ad nauseum if there were any usage history for sites like mapquest (which might have yielded a destination address), others have inquired about whether he ever visited dating websites, or other sites of interest. The only stock response we got was that, and I am parapharasing, "there was nothing on the computer that explained why he was in Henderson that day".
I'm sorry, but why was that a wrong answer? Is it possible he just DROVE there, or had written directions? Or....that whoever gave him the directions, was part of a face-to-face conversation?
As for dating site(s), yes. That's been discussed here for months. Using his email address, I've been able to trace him to two lds-related sites, but no others. He had an eBay account, too. And the FB account. He really didn't use the computer much -- which is the truth.
I'd be more suspicious of what's on the Washington County library's computers, than his own. Why? Because it'd be traceable, since he'd have to log on with his library account.
I've been around the block a few times and what that says to me is that there is stuff on that hard drive that the family considers embarassing. (Come to think of it, whose hard drive does not contain something that someone else might not consider embarassing)? I'm sure my family would be embarassed by what they might find on my hard drive.
However, if someone is missing, all of that information is helpful in trying to answer the question of what happened to the loved one. So there is a choice - save face publicly and withhold or let the info out there. Mind you, what is on Steven's hard drive is no reflection on the Koecher family. It was Steven's hard drive not theirs.
....and if there is such information, we have no right to it. If there's something there they're unhappy with, it would have been discovered during the forensic scanning of the computer. Then, it would have been out of the family's control on how to use the info. If there's something, it's logical that the PI has it.
It was either late last year or early this year when some actor was missing up in Vacouver and the family, very concerned about his well being, was very open about his psychiatric condition. Sadly the guy was found dead, I think a suicide. However, they wanted people to know their son's mental state due to the urgency of it, people looked and someone found a body.
You're thinking of
Andrew Koenig.
Koenig's friends found his body, because they knew where he'd go to commit suicide. He'd practically rented a billboard saying what he was going to do (wrote a despondent letter to his father, gave his belongings away, went to Vancouver where he loved Stanley Park).
I have said this before and I'll say it again as these threads have gotten very long. No family has any obligation to disseminate any information to the public. However, when asking the public's help, the least they can do is share information that might help bring him or his body home. In other words, unless people know where to look, then no one is going to find out what happened to him.
What help have they asked us for (besides providing people to help in the April 10th search)? They didn't ask us to come here to WS, they don't read WS. Really. We really are "working" independent of them.
I guess the bottom line is this: those who've expressed displeasure with the PI's efforts are those who believe Steven left of his own accord and is off living happily with Rich Daddy Warbucks. The rest of us believe something more sinister took place, and that Steven is no longer alive.
I think we can all respect each other's ideas and scenarios, while having respect for the family and those trying to help them.
