BBM: I haven't seen the official story pushing the idea that Heather was madly in love with SM. In fact, I have seen the opposite: a young woman who was with, then no longer with a married man, and a married man who, after breaking up with the young woman, contacted her first on the night she went missing. Going out for a "hookup" is not in keeping with her recent actions. (stopping the relationship with SM, TM not needing to worry about her anymore, going out with a new guy, etc). The thought that Heather cared enough about SM to go and talk to him is far more reasonable to me than thinking she was heading out for a "hookup". (Although there are probably a lot of girls that have an affair with a married man, break up with said married man---wait, doesn't a break up indicate a romantic component, since most hookups are just casual? We'll overlook that for now...-- wait for a month or so then decide they need to go have a hookup with him since he called in the middle of the night, after she had a nice date with a new guy, because that makes a LOT more sense than possibly caring about said married guy)
Do I think Heather's father chose the best pictures to get the most sympathy. Yes. That was only smart. Do I also think he didn't have access to many of her most recent pictures. Yes to that as well. I haven't got a single picture of my daughter that wasn't taken by me. Which means, in the past three months, because she is so busy, I have only one of her with her brother I snapped while they were goofing around, and it would be useless as an identification picture. Once she moves out of my house, I won't have any pictures of her, unless she sends me one. In Heather's case, that means a good portion of any pictures good for identification her dad had might be 2 years old.
FWIW, it is my opinion that the average person's social media presence is not even remotely 100% indicative of their true personality. Especially teens and young 20's.