Yes, this is what I meant...but I still believe that even now, a year later, many news media stations/newspapers would be happy to print Holly's story if they had a sit-down interview with her family. I wonder about the local media, are they hesitant to say much due to some relationship with local LE? It just seems beyond bizarre to me that there is a level of "acceptance" about the fact that Holly was taken, and that LE won't talk about it, and that's that. For a small town, I would think the opposite would be true, that her kidnapping would have caused protests by now, due to lack of sharing from LE, not utter silence only broken with prayers.
I agree and have wondered for a long time why isn't there more advocacy done on this young woman's behalf, or as you put it, why is there a general sense of acceptance that she is missing and that her case is seemingly like a paradox in every way you try to look at it.
We must acknowledge that there have been several benefits and awareness campaigns over the last year, as in bike ride for Holly, balloon release at the local schools, T-shirts, a truck decal campaign, an anonymous person who has offered another 150k~ reward for her safe return (coinciding with the timing of the arrest of a local RSO). There were probably other benefits that elude me at this time. We could discuss the oddities of certain events all we want, but I think the point is that there is at least a level of awareness being raised in the local area.
I have recently went back through some of the threads here in the first week after HB went missing, it is startling how much contradictory information got put out there, with multiple articles describing the same case detail in multiple ways. I'm sorry but that is not all the media's fault, especially when you consider the multitude of spokesmen in LE that were talking and that isn't including all the social media chatter. It's unfortunate but it isn't to hard to see why LE in this case do not want to share any information.
Another side note is how some of the details from MSM, such as the blood and where it was found, was being attributed to various places, physically and in the timeline. First ask yourself how many people actually saw the blood with their own eyes and then consider who MSM was looking to for information. One report said outside, one by the door, one by the car, one on the driveway, one in the carport, one ON the carport, one in the garage, Nancy Grace reported as flecks on the lawn, on JVM when asked about a possible trail of blood, CB, who didn't seem to completely understand the full question, responded with information about a logging road behind the house.
LE has never addressed the blood found except to say it was a puddle and a non life threatening amount, after this they have refused to comment.
What in the world happened that morning to her before she entered the woods? I have never felt we got a true sense of this situation, but these types of discrepancies have opened up the door for so much confusion and skepticism and this is only one example.