Are we (and I include myself) beginning to sleuth the family's actions
more than we should? Mother and father seem like decent, quite people.
The mother appears deeply distraught and the father wants to comfort
her as best he can - media/public attention doesn't ease the pain. Let us
extend our heartfelt sympathy and respect their wanting privacy.
Nice post. I agree.
I understand when someone disappears and you believe it is a murder
case you have to start looking at the family and closest friends first
and then move the circle outward a little at a time because it is often
someone closest to the victim that did the crime.
In this case I see nothing about the family to indicate any wrongdoing
and so I posted to that effect.
I do think we might be getting overly critical sometimes about whether a
family should be or should not be making more of a fuss to keep the case
in the news and so forth.
Not sure we are in any position to know what is best in such
circumstances and so I posted to that effect.
I know that some have been concerned with the seeming quietness of this
case. Sometimes cases do seem to not get the media attention one would
think they deserve.
(The idea being that media attention might help generate leads.)
I don't know why media silence happens, just that it does
indeed happen. I do not think the quietness of this case is terribly
unusual or odd. It seems to be just one of those that goes quiet.
The reasons for a case going quiet can be varied. Sometimes LE has
a suspect in mind and must gather the evidence needed.
I remember when a woman was killed by her ex when she took her van to
his shop to be repaired. It was almost a horribly quiet year before LE got
the evidence needed to make an arrest and everyone pretty much knew
who did it already.
But other times the cause of silence can be other things.
I don't know the cause in this case.