I always find it odd when people refuse polygraphs and lawyer up AND move away. But maybe you're right. I could be reading too much into Clint's behavior. I don't think he and Meredith had anything to do with Brian's disappearance per se....but maybe one or both of them know something that no one else knows. I would like to think that that's ridiculous and they would have shared anything they knew with the police though.
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It's easy to believe that someone would lawyer up and refuse a polygraph, ESPECIALLY if you have a good friend or family member who is an attorney. Any attorney will tell you that you do actually need to be represented and to never take a lie detector. We all would like to think that we would do something different, but what do you do if, for example, your uncle is a lawyer and he says he wants to represent you and you shouldn't take a polygraph? I could easily see Clint getting caught between wanting to help and an attorney's advice.
There have also been discussions about Clint "talking bad" about Brian during police interviews. My theory is if I have a friend who is missing, I am going to tell the police everything I know about that person - good or bad. If my friend has a drug problem that no one else know about, I am going to tell them. If my friend is not faithful to their girlfriend or wife, I am going to say that too. It wouldn't be to hurt anyone, but to help find them. However, statements like that could be perceived by the family that you are saying untrue or mean things.
Then, when you finish school or whatever, you move back home or wherever you get a job and carry on with your life as planned.
=Just my thoughts=
I agree, you make a good point about refusing the polygraph. I never thought of it that way. When you do stop to think about it, lie detector tests are so unreliable that it would make sense to refuse it. Normally people think, "well, if they have nothing to hide they wouldn't refuse to take the test." But I know the test has proved defective in the past and it could actually work against someone who had nothing to hide to take the polygraph. And having an attorney to speak for you is a good idea. My problem with Clint is that he nor his attorney are saying anything now. If it were my friend or relative, I would tell everything, bad and good, on the off chance that something I say might be useful to LE. But I would also make myself available for questioning AND I would probably contact LE either myself or through my attorney at least once a month to see what, if any progress had been made, depending on how close I was to the victim.
I guess I am just kind of bothered about how Clint and Meredith seemed to detach themselves from the whole thing, whereas I would like to believe that if I were in their shoes, I would be in contact with LE to keep up to speed on the investigation. Maybe they've done that and we just don't know it.
