Alethea
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What's baffling to me about BL refusing to speak at all, even with an attorney advising him, is this:
If he is innocent, you'd think he'd want to both tell his story/clear his name and also to help GP to be found, especially if she was alive when they parted.
And even if he is guilty, there is such a wide range of plausible stories he could tell to send the searchers off in the wrong direction. Knowing that she didn't like to drive the van seems to give him even more options of plausible stories -- he could claim they split up, she decided to do X and asked him to bring the van home, and she would call her folks for a plane ticket when she was ready to return, etc. Then any misfortune that befell her afterwards would be beyond his connection, ostensibly, and even when/if she is found there is a reasonable chance his story couldn't be disproven.
But by saying nothing at all, it looks horrible for him now, and more horrible for him when/if she is found deceased.
So it's hard to imagine his or his family's thinking for being so adamant about not saying anything, not even "pretending" to assist in the search for her. MOO
I was thinking about this earlier too. In some ways it's actually more helpful if he's not going to lie to waste resources. His attorney may have also advised him that it's a crime to lie to federal agents in itself so if he doesn't have anything helpful to say, it's better to say nothing at all.
Keep in mind that clients also lie to their lawyers. So the only person who 100% knows what happened is Brian. Everyone else is trying to pick up the mess and figure it out - even the people purportedly on his side.