This case may turn out differently from the other sad ones we have followed, but I have a question/concern.
All types of LE personnel have been and are still knocking on doors, guiding drones, slogging through estuaries, wading in water, coordinating all of this, answering phones, making notes, investigating the parents and perhaps neighbors, out-of-towners are flying or driving to the site and sleeping nearby somewhere, all these people need to be fed, etc., etc. And SAR groups don't charge fees, but they do have traveling, meals and hotel expenses. Ultimately the taxpayers pay some of these expenses (local LE and state LE and FBI) -- about which I am not complaining, because it has to be done and it saves precious lives in some cases -- but what about false reporting of a lost child? These efforts cost the same amount of money for all these things. When it turns out to be a hoax, I guess the funds to finance this are paid the same way.
Does anyone know anything different WRT people lying about a disappearance, and bearing none of the expenses? Are they charged anything at all to help LE recoup its expenses? Could it be included in sentencing if they are convicted of falsely reporting a crime and possibly murder?
Just wondering...
