I know I have used this analogy before, but considering Billie's response or lack of response to all the suspicion pointed Shawn's direction....
My German Shepherd puppy was in my hubby's care when he bolted across the street and got hit by a car. My DH LOVES my dog as much as I do. He was heartbroken and too full responsibility for the *accident* which had left my dog with a broken fully degloved puppy leg with now closed growth plates (translates to 7 surgeries and thousands of dollars).
I knew it was an accident, I felt bad for my husband and his obvious guilt. But I am human and there was a part of me that was FURIOUS and blamed him for letting it happen.
When I take those emotions and apply them to my child, who I don't know where she is, anyone with any common sense suspects him to some degree, she somewhat kind of sort of acknowledges that gee maybe he could have something to do with it, that is what they keep beating into her head anyway.
It *seems* to me when projecting on to this case that there would be a flip out somewhere along the way, tears, begging him to tell her if he knows, anger, fury, threats of bodily harm.
She has been on live television with a skilled interviewer who would love to have that flip out occur on her airways, she has led her right down the road to lash out at him.
The emotions and words regarding Shawn seem too controlled to me.
Doesn't ring true to me at all.
Think of Kyron's mother and the anger you could see seeping out of her long before Terri was called a suspect. Even if she didn't think she had first hand involvement at that moment, she was ANGRY, rational or irrational. She was pissed.