Yes, I see what you are saying. But as far as I know, some of the stuff you are saying about JC is just "assumed" also. I haven't heard anything that says the Corwin's only had one car- for sure. Who knows, it's just as likely they also had a car. Or he could have had a gf and borrowed her car.
I haven't heard anything about the base cameras showing that Jon never left the base that day.
Yes, it does seem like the LE focused in on CL early. Then they let him go. Then they announced he is not a POI. I haven't read any other official documents that show in details other witnesses they've talked to, other places they've searched, other items they've tested, and other witnesses that may have made "iffy" statements. I haven't read about the any of the Corwin's stuff that was searched or any of the interviews that were done with the husband or any other friends that lived around them. Actually, I don't remember hearing a whole lot from JC at all.
As far as NL's statement go- Yeah. I don't put that much stock in it really. She probably disliked EC a lot. She very well could just be a bitter wife that could care less what happened to EC. IMO.
You're right about this case being very much like other cases. Unfortunately, it's usually the person closest to them.
Again, I understand 100% where you are coming from. I am not trying to argue or have a different opinion just to ruffle feathers. I have followed so many cases, and so many times I've seen everybody convinced of one thing- and they are absolutely heartbroken to find out different. You are probably about 99.5 % right on who hurt EC. From what we all know so far, that is the direction it looks like it is going. It's that .5% that worries me. The unknowns.
BTW- I do NOT know any of these people involved in this story at all.
As always, just my opinion.
I agree that in these types of cases we almost always find out the woman's death/disappearance was caused by her husband. Almost always. But there are a whole lot of cases where the disappearance/death is at the hands of her lover, or her jilted lover. So that really means most of these types of cases involve intimate partners of a variety of legal relationships to the victim.
Then we have Whitney Heichel's case... a neighbor.
I know that LE aren't always 'right' in their actions or assumptions. We only have a slew of stories about police misconduct in the news every day to know that, at the end of the day, they are quite human and fail like the rest of us.
But in this case, they have more facts than we do. They've spoken to all of these key players, most likely multiple times. And since they do know at least what we know in terms of the vast majority of these types of crimes being perpetrated by intimate partners, I feel confident in accepting that they've looked - and questioned and investigated and fact-checked - every bit of information about or that has come from JC. And if they found or heard or saw anything hinky, they'd be all over it.
At this point I see JC as a victim. I feel badly for him for the double-whammy he's getting of his wife being missing AND knowing, like we all do, that he's prime candidate for being suspect #1.
I just don't believe that investigators would have gone to the lengths they've gone to in investigating CL if they didn't have good reason to do so. And at the same time, they haven't had good reason to similarly investigate JC.
That's all. I don't want to make it personal, so please don't feel like I'm attacking. It's frustrating how little information has been released, because I do believe they have so much more than we are able to see, and that makes it difficult for us to do anything more than speculate. I, too, really thought it would be JC at first, I just think now with his young age and all the time that has passed, if he did it, it would become obvious. Scott Peterson, for example, couldn't hold his s%@& together for this long, and he was much older and presumably, a more experienced liar under pressure. So, I don't know. I would imagine a 20 yo kid under such intense scrutiny from both the military AND the police AND the family AND the general public would start to crack a bit. IMO, JMO.
