Thank you for your comments. I don't mean to imply that LE are not doing a good job, they could very well be doing an astounding job, I just don't know that, and I'm not prepared to hang a man when I don't know he is guilty. The point is that it seems many WSer's believe that DG is guilty, even though there has been no real evidence disclosed to the public to even base that on.
I'm sorry that you are tired about hearing of wrongly accused and convicted, and hopefully it IS a very rare occurrence. I find it hard to believe that so many, and not just in this case, and not just on WS, are so willing to hang a person before there is even a trial, (so to speak), indeed before there is even a preliminary hearing, and even before any real evidence is made public. In the beginning, even after the green truck, LE had stated they were still looking into other avenues, and that DG was not the only person of interest in this particular case. Sightings of the missing family were reported in tips to the police. I am really hoping that LE has given all of the tips and all of the circumstantial evidence in this case fair consideration, as opposed to being too focused on one possibility. And that, I know, happens a lot, and perhaps it often also results in the truth, but not always, and by the time it may be discovered that another tip should have been given more weight at the time, it is often too late to pursue it.
Lastly, yes I do believe LE absolutely used the ID charge in order to hold DG in custody in regard to the murder. And further, I don't see anything wrong with that. It was within their rights to do so, and for whatever reasons they felt it was warranted at the time, and I'm sure they felt they would be able to gather some kind of hard evidence very quickly. But after days of searching the man's property while he was waiting for his bail hearing on the ID charge(s), they still had nothing concrete with which to hold him on, and he ended up getting bail.
