"WG" was a cop or CI. I can almost guarantee it. It's quite clear where LE is headed with this case, and for good reason. They're not going to "trick" WG by naming - QUITE CLEARLY AND PUBLICLY- another POI. That's all kinds of reasonable doubt, and WG's defense attorney would eat that for breakfast if they did that. This isn't Law and Order or Suits. There is no 'twist' or 'game' here. Fact is, the evidence and circumstances lead to dreads and no one else. Utterly baffles me that some folks can still cling to the idea that WG is involved. Just. Baffled. IMO.
I
absolutely do not think LE is using JM as a "front" to trick WG (or another person if it's someone else) off into not thinking that he's involved.
There's no way they could have gotten a warrant and named him a POI purely to trick someone or lead someone into being safe. They clearly thought (or at least initially) and knew enough to show enough evidence to get the warrant (and then to name him as a POI) at least initially.
But I
do think it's possible that they MAY not be convinced WG (or someone else) is completely ruled out and entirely uninvolved and are just letting the heat (publicly) remain on JM and aren't emphasizing or doing much discussion of any extent to which they could still be investigation WG (or others)
I'm sure as has been raised here, they've had to look at the possibility of if WG (or someone else) could have been working with JM, as I'm sure if as many WSers have considered that possibility (at least briefly) at some point as we've seen, LE has as well.
Some have questioned if it's too far-fetched to think JM really was (to some degree) trying to help her, since he was actually behind both WG and Hannah and then overtook WG in a very short distance and caught up with Hannah, and then if perhaps WG (or someone else) did something if she and JM really hadn't left together.
No matter to what degree anyone thinks that should or should not be taken into consideration as a possibility scenario, I'd think that they'd at least have to really have
considered if it DID play out along those lines.
After all, based on what IS seen on video, a possible slight tweak to that scenario could easily actually involve both.
Person 1 (in this case WG) follows Hannah. Person 2 (in this case JM) suddenly comes up from behind, points out she's being followed (by indicating the other person - WG) and offers to "help" her get away, but is really leading her into danger rather than out of it. And then after "helping" briefly (walking with her, leading her into a nicer bar, etc.) has gained her trust and then the two guys work together from there somehow (meeting up somewhere or something)
I'm not saying I think WG is involved.
Not at all. I'm not convinced on that either way
But based on what I've seen or read at this point, I think they
would clear him publicly if they 100% were convinced they could, especially since water cooler and online discussion seems to indicate there's a healthy corner of people who can't shake the oddities of what they saw or have heard about WG's presence in the area that night and question it or still have it causing some degree of pause about it.