Flossie JMO
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Oh ya, he was just making stuff up. That is what drawing a wild conclusion from someone else's speculation is called. The simple fact is that there is nothing to even remotely support that. I don't put much stock in the grandmother because she didn't tell her son about the suspicions at the time, which means that her suspicions were formed after HD was gone, in other words whatever happened was regarded as pretty minor at the time. You also need to keep in mind that it is clear that she never cared SA and regarded him as an interloper, and that is going to greatly color her "speculations".
SA was asked who the police should be looking at, and he said the family. That would not have been meant as a confession, but rather that he thought that that was where LE look first. Remember, this was a guy who was interested in true crime stories (along with BD), so of course he would think that in such a case you allways look at the family first, especially if he took the question as asking his opinion on how to conduct an investigation. His initial behaviour is consistent with him believing that she was off with some family member, probably on the other side of the family. If he was "confessing" as you seem to be suggesting, why would he suddenly stop? That doesn't make sense. It seems more probable that he was telling LE how they should be conducting their investigation and then suddenly realized that they were focussing on him and seeing his opinion as the start of a confession, which it was not. And it would appear that LE have never moved past that.
There is also an undercurrent of drug issues with many of the characters in this story. In my opinion much of the "deceptiveness" observed in the polygraphs possibly had more to do with a reluctance to talk about activities associated with that side of their lives with LE than because of some guilt associated with HD. And then when they do talk, LE doesn't believe them because of the initial mistrust.
bbm, ITA, and there's a recurring theme with his "opinions" imo