JMB has no control over the fact that the camera 'likes' him. Much as it does a few people, Marilyn Munroe being one. OK guys wanted her and women wanted to be like her. JMB does not pluck heart strings but he def. grabs both attention and emotional responses.
Next point, the footage in PL2 that you refer to is most likely news tv cover from back then, (sorry, but the idea of watching PL2 again does not appeal). JMB had no front of camera experience back then, further more he was trying very hard to get 'Search and Rescue' involved on the evening they went missing. 'Search and Rescue'; 'Recover'; 'Retrieve'; They are all 'finding' words. If two people use slightly different words such as to raise flags as to a degree of culpability then things are pretty sorry and no wonder some juries misunderstand and return wrongful convictions.
Fine if it 'bugs' you.
Many things bug me, but not enough to post in a debate arguing a point that someone is a viable suspect.
A good investigation has a load of possible suspects and slowly, by dint of hard work, whittle it down. That never happened in this case. Ausgirl has opted to approach things going suspect by suspect, in isolation. Also only using the resources generally available to all that has already been 'sanitised' by the wmpd. Women kill kids too.
These are real people here and it is not some sort of 'who dun it' game. Maybe posters could be asked to list, with a percentage of possibility, who they think is a killer. I would like to suggest that folk filter what they say by imagining meeting that person, face to face, in public and thinking how they would feel if they had got it wrong.
This is not an attack of you Carillion, just a general vent. Your post was just the proverbial straw - others have posted bails of the stuff... So much hatred oozes out of some posts that it is obvious they are emotion driven rather than logically arrived at. BTW Welcome.