SuperTmo
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Right. BL was a POI with an attorney. What could they do until there was a warrant to arrest him? As far as surveillance, why would they? Someone with an attorney doesn't appear to be someone who is going to flee, do they? Besides, how often do police engage in surveillance anyway?
Exactly. At the time, nobody knew Gabby was dead. Nobody knew there was DV during the trip. Nobody knew, and so (moo) it’s wrong of us to sit here in hindsight and say what the police should have done, or blame them for not watching him when it’s most likely he was already gone. It’s not illegal for adults to go off and hide for a bit, so that would have been the first assumption, and so BL wasn’t suspected of a crime at that point. Surveillance would have been unreasonable. But again, I think it’s a moot point since you can’t surveil someone who is already on the run and he was probably long gone by that day. It’s only once all the pieces started coming together that everyone realized she is dead, he is in hiding, and the parents seem dishonest.