How often would it happen that the press wouldn't get wind of a body being found? I'm not sure how exactly they become informed in the first place on a regular basis. I would think they likely monitor police radio transmissions? In any case, it's hard to believe they would do that, but obviously they would... but I still don't think they would do it for long. I could see them keeping a body-find quiet until an autopsy was performed and perhaps an identification made, based on if they were able to match the body up with a missing person they are aware of, and during that time likely also doing an indepth investigation into what they believe happened. (Who else would really put her in a suitcase weighed down with rocks?)
I think there is silence in SB's case because nobody seems to be that concerned about her missing, so what are police supposed to think.... at least until a body is located? It would likely be different if family or friends were going to LE with stories of suspicion about someone and asking them to check it out. It seems that even though police were quite concerned after finding those photos in Fish Creek Park, the family preferred to think of the pics as happy, and that perhaps people were holding a vigil, rather than anything 'macabre' like everyone else was thinking. In absence of any suspicion shining anywhere by family, what are they supposed to do?
