I say this only with hindsight, but the L's committed no crimes, imo. It was their son and their son alone who did all that.
Under our Constitution we are fortunately allowed to not speak, it's our right.
Media and SM fed this beast and this storyline until it gained enough traction that we the public all believed it to be true.
They were never criminals in my mind, breaking any laws. Like it or not, I believe these are the facts. I think the public acted appallingly towards the L's because of what their son was accused of and indicted for not because they were guilty of anything.
That whole idea caught fire and stuck, it was like a runaway train and look at where that train stopped, right where the L's said there son was found. People complaining about the costs of the search, the waste of time it was, and chasing ghosts across the country and in the end he was right where his parent's suspected he was. So really what did the L's do wrong, just because they exercised their right to remain silent. jmo