I don't know anything about the R's and Stine's friendship so you will have to enlighten me with some links. You also have to realize their friendship would become strained as no house is big enough for 2 families. I have tried to avoid any psychology yet, I want to find the solid forensic evidence first and gleaning that TRUE information is very difficult. I personally think that
everyone had their own agenda in regards to JBR' case. Every witness, every friend, the lawyers the cops the DA. the DA feeding false facts, 2 experienced cops just quitting after years of frustration and I respect both Lou and Steve. I don't care who is right as long as strong conflicting forensic evidence doesn't exist. Strong enough to blow their theory out of the water.
Instead of being adversarial to each other, two teams needed to investigate separately and then meet up and debate it with a couple of DA's present, one for each team looking everything over, and if enough evidence to exonerate the R's existed....... then both teams would have merged and went for a single investigation. The new investigation is being conducted very high security with little to no new information being released. I hope it will eventually tell us who killed JBR.
I think the touch DNA is promising because of an article I read.
Here is link. It is a side link on a previous link I posted. Notice at end of article what it says about gloves being used at a crime scene.
http://www.suite101.com/content/forensic-investigation-and-dna-profiling-a250516