GUILTY FL - Tricia Todd, 30, Hobe Sound, 27 April 2016 #1

[SMacD96]

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Did Tricia ever mention being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder? Perhaps that is what she was struggling with, rather than schizophrenia: "In moderate to severe cases (of borderline personality disorder), stress-induced breaks with reality or psychotic episodes (may be present)."

I'm sorry if all of this sounds so crazy ... it's just a thought ... :blushing:.

Hi.

If TT has/had Borderline personality 1 of the biggest symptoms is confused sexual identity, which would incline her to seek "love" via hetero or lesbian affairs. BPD afficted people are prone to promiscuity too. I knew someone with it and they overtly clung to religion to try to walk the straight and narrow path.... They would also say and say that they'd seen (in their mind/dreams) the weirdest creepiest things. I used to think they did drugs or something because at other times of the SAME day they were completely normal!!! (American journalist with a big fan club. Definitely high functioning but out there outside of work)

BPD sufferers are also prone to sudden out of the blue raging, usually linked to fear of abandonment. The reason they are promiscuous is because they fear abandonment so they stock up on admirers in case the relationship they're in falls apart.

Reading her blog it's most likely she has BPD.[/QUOTE]

I agree with the BPD. I've also thought about bipolar. I was wondering if the stress of SW being present, coupled with her being without F for the night, could invoke enough stress to cause a psychotic episode.

 

[Justice2016]

Thanks Justice 2016 for the breakdown of Zodiac signs. SW and TT seem to fit them to a T

You're welcome. Anytime, relating to any other case you're curious about.

 

[SMacD96]

I really think people are taking TT's journal too seriously given her obvious (and confirmed by family) mental health issues. This really is like the TP case all over again, where people were trying to "make sense" of her tweets/accusations at various points; unsurprisingly, it turned out she was a delusional schizophrenic and the target of her tweets was a completely innocent/uninvolved bystander. Yes, it's completely possible that there is some kernel of lucid truth in her journal and, yes, this case is a bit different because she and SW at least had some kind of real relationship, but I don't think the first assumption should be "yes, SW obviously killed animals randomly" because TT (kind of) says he did. Remember that the cops say SW is not a POI. (Also, keep in mind that TT's family doesn't even seem to think that he's involved.)

In the beginning stages of her disappearance her family did make remarks about it not looking for for SW. The link I posted early today is pretty clear about that. Some close friends and family have posted some things publicly right after TT went missing it's VERY CLEAR who they think is guilty. They didn't change their theories until SW was "cleared" (although I have my doubts that he's actually cleared). OR maybe they changed their opinion of what happened because they want to be hopeful that she is still alive.

 

[Justice2016]

Hi.

If TT has/had Borderline personality 1 of the biggest symptoms is confused sexual identity, which would incline her to seek "love" via hetero or lesbian affairs. BPD afficted people are prone to promiscuity too. I knew someone with it and they overtly clung to religion to try to walk the straight and narrow path.... They would also say and say that they'd seen (in their mind/dreams) the weirdest creepiest things. I used to think they did drugs or something because at other times of the SAME day they were completely normal!!! (American journalist with a big fan club. Definitely high functioning but out there outside of work)

BPD sufferers are also prone to sudden out of the blue raging, usually linked to fear of abandonment. The reason they are promiscuous is because they fear abandonment so they stock up on admirers in case the relationship they're in falls apart.

Reading her blog it's most likely she has BPD.

I agree with the BPD. I've also thought about bipolar. I was wondering if the stress of SW being present, coupled with her being without F for the night, could invoke enough stress to cause a psychotic episode.[/QUOTE]


The BPD I knew met a full fledged Bipolar I knew (lol, the combo wasn't so funny but they were fond of each other), so here's what I can share.

The BPD would have 30 minute periods of psychosis. Sometimes several in 1 day but with long breaks in between. They could get violent. Completely irrational. 30 minutes later they'd be high functioning and calm.
The bipolar was the real manic type, not the just severely depressed type. 4/5 years go by between episodes. When they're in their psychotic period the cycle duration is about 4-6 months all in, from startup to admission to hospital.

 

[Ali.]

I was thinking about all the similarities I see between Tricia and Teleka Patrick:

-bizarre, disjointed (in my opinion ... sorry) online ramblings (in which they both occasionally reference -directly, as well as indirectly- personal history with mental illness but conclude that they are not in need of help from a professional, despite both of them being healthcare professionals -in Teleka's case, a psychiatry resident-);

-somewhat extreme religious beliefs;

-age at the time of disappearance (30 -"The onset (of schizophrenia) in women is usually slightly later, between ages 25 - 34"; while we don't know for certain if Tricia or Teleka suffered from schizophrenia or any mental illness for that matter, they both appear to have suffered from delusions);

-no mention of history of mental illness on the part of victim by friends and family (with one exception: In Teleka's case, her ex-husband, about a month after she went missing, gave an interview in which he gave an account of an episode he personally experienced while they were still married, in which Teleka acted much like she was described to have been prior to her disappearance, e.g., erratic driving);

-exiting a car in the middle of the night immediately prior to disappearing;

And then a thought came to my mind: Is it possible that Tricia was obsessed with her ex-husband in much the way Teleka was with the pastor in Michigan, who ended up taking out a restraining order against her after she showed up at his house, uninvited, when his children were home alone?

Is it possible that F really wasn't sick after all, but Tricia (or rather, her disturbed brain ) told her ex something along the lines of "F has been sick. We ("But I have her insurance card, so I must be there, as well as you!") need to get her to the ER!" so that she could be with her ex, rather than to simply drop F off with him and leave? This would explain why they took F to the ER but left without F being seen by a doctor (faced with reality -perhaps after being told by a triage nurse that F was fine-, maybe Tricia relented at the last minute). This would also explain why the ex took F shopping, to the wilderness center, etc. the following morning: She was never ill.

Is it possible that Tricia went back to the Airbnb where her ex was staying uninvited, as opposed to the ex asking her to bring more medicine over? It seems to me that the MSM have been rather inconsistent in reporting the circumstances under which Tricia went over to the house; perhaps LE is of the opinion that this is really what happened but not releasing the information out of respect for her privacy.

Is it possible that Tricia intentionally let her car run out of gas, so that she would have an "excuse" to stay with her ex overnight ("I ran out of gas .... Can I just stay the night here and get gas in the morning?")? This would explain why the ex -and not Tricia- got gas on her behalf: He did not want her spending the night with him.

Did Tricia ever mention being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder? Perhaps that is what she was struggling with, rather than schizophrenia: "In moderate to severe cases (of borderline personality disorder), stress-induced breaks with reality or psychotic episodes (may be present)."

I'm sorry if all of this sounds so crazy ... it's just a thought ... :blushing:.

The ex gave F's illness as the reason he had his car cleaned - he told LE that she had vomited in the backseat. LE said they "confirmed" that vomiting was a part of F's illness. It seems to me that she really was sick, to some degree.

 

[walkingdeadgirl]

In the beginning stages of her disappearance her family did make remarks about it not looking for for SW. The link I posted early today is pretty clear about that. Some close friends and family have posted some things publicly right after TT went missing it's VERY CLEAR who they think is guilty. They didn't change their theories until SW was "cleared" (although I have my doubts that he's actually cleared). OR maybe they changed their opinion of what happened because they want to be hopeful that she is still alive.

Members of her family have some very interesting ideas of where they think she is, but I don't know how much we can really talk about that.

 

[Justice2016]

The ex gave F's illness as the reason he had his car cleaned - he told LE that she had vomited in the backseat. LE said they "confirmed" that vomiting was a part of F's illness. It seems to me that she really was sick, to some degree.

Easy to confirm with forensic testing whether there was recent vomit in the car and whether it was an adult male's vomit... or F's. Most babies vomit at some don't they? I haven't had one so I would not know but I used to help edit a baby mag years ago.

 

[MyTooSense21]

I live in Martin County Florida next to Hobe Sound and I am really impressed with our Sheriff, William Snyder and his entire department with the endless hours spent in getting to the bottom of what happened to TT. I am also really proud to be a part of a community that rallies together and selflessly donates their time, money and resources in hopes of bringing this missing mother, sister, daughter, veteran and friend home.

That said, I do believe our Sheriffs will solve this case. This County is extremely conservative and has zero tolerance for criminals of any sort. I've seen very few get away with committing crimes here and the ones that are caught are prosecuted and sentenced to max extent of law. Anyone living within the state of Florida knows you don't want to get caught commuting a crime in Martin County. IMO I believe MCSO is giving SW that false sense of security by stating that he's not POI or that he passed a polygraph. I wouldn't doubt for a second that he is indeed their #1 POI and are inching their way to solving this case as we speak.
I'd also like to share why I suspect foul play was committed by SW. This is my own opinion from what I've gathered about TT's disappearance.
1. SW takes off rather quickly even knowing TT didn't pickup F like she was supposed too. I give SW the benefit of doubt taking into consideration he is active military and may not have had much choice in this matter.
But....
2. She's gone this long and SW has yet to come back, make statement, aid in the search for his childs mother. Even if SW hated TT you'd think he'd want to comfort the baby during this time without her Mom. I'm pretty sure the Air Force would allow emergency leave considering circumstances. This is huge clue that something is off here.
3. Everywhere he went were places that strike me as strange to be at their given time and circumstances. Example: Gas Station @ 1:19 a.m. (Call me crazy but this guy hasn't showed much concern for missing TT thus far but he was so concerned with making sure she has gas in her car? The Cumberland Farms gas station is exactly 0.9 miles from where B&B in Poinciana Gardens is and unless TT's tank was bone dry she was more than capable of getting gas on route back to her home. The drive to gas station is 3 minutes. Go figure) Busch Wildlife & Walmart (if F was sick enough to warrant an ER visit and still so sick at midnight that SW asked TT to come back over then why in the world would anyone take sick baby the very next day running several errands or to an outdoor Wildlife refuge in the hot Florida sun?)...These places all have cameras and IMO its almost as if he mentally staged his story knowing it could and would be verified later by cameras.
4. SW was alleged offender in domestic violence incident 2 years ago but not arrested as per Sheriff Snyder (Martin County Sheriffs)
5. *Her statement regarding him killing the animals. *This one I take with a grain of salt because no report or charges filed and in LJ she had admitted to lying or trying to set SW up in a domestic situation so that SW would have to leave house and she could be with her ex Whose initial is L.
6. HE CLEANED THE CAR!

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[SMacD96]

MyTooSense21...I agree 100%. The theories regarding her mental health or interesting, and may play a roll to some degree, but I do believe everything you said is the most logical explanation, regardless of what the ME said about clearing SW.

 

[TeaTime]

MyTooSense - if not for LE stating that SW has fully cooperated and taken a polygraph which he passed, I would usually go straight to the ex-spouse as the likeliest suspect. But, he is pretty much off of the radar now.

As for SW not coming to search for the missing ex-wife - it is never recommended that the families help in the search. As I was told, "if the ex is the one who innocently stumbles upon the body, it will always be looked at as if he/she knew where it was all along and LE doesn't want that added element to the search/crime investigation". Of course this is not a quote but I hope you get the point that was made to me.

No doubt SW is now thinking of the things he will have to do if TT is never found or is found dead or is found to have wandered away in a mental fugue. He must now make arrangements to take his child to live with him.

 

[Justice2016]

I live in Martin County Florida next to Hobe Sound and I am really impressed with our Sheriff, William Snyder and his entire department with the endless hours spent in getting to the bottom of what happened to TT. I am also really proud to be a part of a community that rallies together and selflessly donates their time, money and resources in hopes of bringing this missing mother, sister, daughter, veteran and friend home.

That said, I do believe our Sheriffs will solve this case. This County is extremely conservative and has zero tolerance for criminals of any sort. I've seen very few get away with committing crimes here and the ones that are caught are prosecuted and sentenced to max extent of law. Anyone living within the state of Florida knows you don't want to get caught commuting a crime in Martin County. IMO I believe MCSO is giving SW that false sense of security by stating that he's not POI or that he passed a polygraph. I wouldn't doubt for a second that he is indeed their #1 POI and are inching their way to solving this case as we speak.
I'd also like to share why I suspect foul play was committed by SW. This is my own opinion from what I've gathered about TT's disappearance.
1. SW takes off rather quickly even knowing TT didn't pickup F like she was supposed too. I give SW the benefit of doubt taking into consideration he is active military and may not have had much choice in this matter.
But....
2. She's gone this long and SW has yet to come back, make statement, aid in the search for his childs mother. Even if SW hated TT you'd think he'd want to comfort the baby during this time without her Mom. I'm pretty sure the Air Force would allow emergency leave considering circumstances. This is huge clue that something is off here.
3. Everywhere he went were places that strike me as strange to be at their given time and circumstances. Example: Gas Station @ 1:19 a.m. (Call me crazy but this guy hasn't showed much concern for missing TT thus far but he was so concerned with making sure she has gas in her car? The Cumberland Farms gas station is exactly 0.9 miles from where B&B in Poinciana Gardens is and unless TT's tank was bone dry she was more than capable of getting gas on route back to her home. The drive to gas station is 3 minutes. Go figure) Busch Wildlife & Walmart (if F was sick enough to warrant an ER visit and still so sick at midnight that SW asked TT to come back over then why in the world would anyone take sick baby the very next day running several errands or to an outdoor Wildlife refuge in the hot Florida sun?)...These places all have cameras and IMO its almost as if he mentally staged his story knowing it could and would be verified later by cameras.
4. SW was alleged offender in domestic violence incident 2 years ago but not arrested as per Sheriff Snyder (Martin County Sheriffs)
5. *Her statement regarding him killing the animals. *This one I take with a grain of salt because no report or charges filed and in LJ she had admitted to lying or trying to set SW up in a domestic situation so that SW would have to leave house and she could be with her ex Whose initial is L.
6. HE CLEANED THE CAR!
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Great post & it's a relief to hear about Marin County's track record, thanks.

Wrt point 9 BPD women most often get involved with Narcissistic Personality Disorder men/women. Yin & yang. It's the most common connection for BPD people.

1. Full blown NPD are cold, emotionless, lack all empathy or conscience, are incapable of love or genuine caring & thus 1 of the most dangerous type of PD.
2. NPDs view their BPD as "supply" - they exist on others boosting their ego because they have no sense of self. (this stuff is sick & the jargon is not real for a reason) "Supply" is owned by them. They revisit their supply over the years if the supply is deemed to be a high quality source. (if it's very flattering or highly emotive, will involve lots of drama)
3. Great "supply" sources are never disconnected from even though the NPD is the leaver/divorcer.
4. NPDs are sadistic. They are fully aware of their victim's pain, but this gets them off. They need it because it affirms that they themselves have the power to cause this reaction in others & it affirms their own value.
5. They disconnect/leave their partners in a sudden, abrupt way only once they have secured an alternative "supply" source. They leave without closure, without goodbyes, to cause maximum grief & ensure their "supply" never gets over them, enabling future returns (if they choose to revisit for the above reasons)
6. Google Sam Vaknin for more chilling traits. Youtube is a rich source of info too.
7. You get "covert" & "overt" types of NPD. Hidden or easily identifiable. Many are very charming. Only their victims get to see the reality. Covert ones are the most dangerous some say because they fool the world and nobody sees it coming.
8. They get very dangerous if a victim is going to tell the world about something bad they have done. They will kill to keep a secret, to maintain their image. IMAGE/reputation is everything to them.

 

[Justice2016]

Oops. meant to say the jargon is real , not gimmicky.
Love bombing, Discarding, Supply.

 

[Justice2016]

[QUOTE. He must now make arrangements to take his child to live with him.[/QUOTE]

Children are seen as sources of "supply" in NPD. Until the child one day threatens their reputation/image. Then they can be abandoned fast or worse.

 

[SMacD96]

Personality and mental illness played a large role, but I do think we have figured out a motive.

 

[walkingdeadgirl]

In regards to the Scorpio, we concluded it may be a LJ friend of hers. In the beginning of that entry she begins talking about zodiac photography. Her most active LJ friend, when we dug around enough, has an album online of zodiac photography and she is a Scorpio. The thing that is confusing is that she then begins to talk about a painful love affair with a Scorpio. This would lead me to believe one of two things: 1) She had a romantic relationship with this female LJ friend Scorpio. This may explain posts in the past about battling with an unstated internal sin (homosexuality??). OR 2) There is more than one Scorpio. She does change topics a few times throughout the post so it's hard to tell.

SW is a Gemini - she's not referring to him in the last post. In my mind, however, SW is most suspicious. In this article TT's stepfather describes SW as "meticulous".
http://cbs12.com/news/local/news-conference-set-for-430-pm-in-search-for-tricia-todd

Given that TT's stepfather described him this way.....I wouldn't be surprised if this was a well thought out, methodical crime. Based on TT's LJ, assuming part of it are true, he is not a very nice person. In fact, he himself may have a mental illness. If the bits about the animal abuse ARE true then he was able to harm MANY animals undetected for quite some time. If he wasn't methodical, he wouldn't have been able to go undetected for that. If all of that is true, these aren't emotional crimes. He thinks things out, plans, waits. SW hadn't seen TT or F in "months" and he comes to see F for one day and TT disappears with him being the last person to see her? It's a little more than ironic. I honestly wonder if he had an accomplice. Perhaps they traveled separately and lodged separately to keep the accomplice out of association with SW and off surveillance video. The last LJ post does refer to a threat which "terrified" her. The presence of an accomplice may explain why TT's phone turned off within 10 minutes of SW getting gas. Based on timeline, was he even able to make it back to his B&B by then? Even if the locations were close it takes at least a few minutes to obtain and pay for gas. (Did SW drive TT's car to the gas station, or his own?). If he had an accomplice he/she would be able to drive TT's car back to her "address", wipe the car clean, and be picked up by SW. The accomplice could then drive...wherever...under no suspicion, to dispose of her body. SW then went out several places the next day (despite F being sick), hoping to be caught on camera with F for the sole purpose of building an alibi. Perhaps they both used burn phones to keep their phone records clean. This is all speculation, of course. The thought of it being so thought out makes me feel sick, but I can't shake the feeling that this may also be a possibility based on TT's blog posts and descriptions of SW by people who knew him.

On a completely opposite and separate note, the Ed Sheeran lyrics in the song she posted repeat the phrase "wait for me to come home" multiple times. This would lead me to believe she left voluntarily. BUT If she was on the brink of a psychotic break, would she be capable of knowing this in advance and warning everyone at the last minute through her LJ to "wait for her"? My assumption would be no, but I don't have much experience with mental illness. I do find the lyrics pretty ironic. I do find her LJ posts to be all over the place, particularly the first/second paragraph in the last post, but I also find them as being somewhat poetic and intentionally cryptic (placing *'s instead of peoples names...it is a public journal). After the first/second paragraph the post begins to sound more "normal", just poetic.

There is an LJ friend that re-posted TT's last entry, and said that it was to her. She didn't seem to understand a lot of what TT wrote.

 

[MyTooSense21]

I can agree with SW not aiding in the physical search for TT but he does have a 3 year old baby down here who
has to be very confused as to where her mom is. Maybe I'm sensitive but you'd think he'd want to comfort her. She's more a less parent-less right now.
SW may be off your radar but I have to disagree completely about SW being off LE radar. I don't recall them officially clearing SW. Information gathered during an open investigation is confidential. LE could, would and has lied many times over by feeding the public a fraction of what they uncover and bending truth if needed. Especially when what they uncover could be valuable evidence against a person. They also hate it when an individual "lawyers up" because I would think this highly reduces the chances of any confessions. I think they like to keep their friends close and enemies closer...

 

[MyTooSense21]

I don't believe LE has officially cleared anyone yet.

 

[cujenn81]

I live in Martin County Florida next to Hobe Sound and I am really impressed with our Sheriff, William Snyder and his entire department with the endless hours spent in getting to the bottom of what happened to TT. I am also really proud to be a part of a community that rallies together and selflessly donates their time, money and resources in hopes of bringing this missing mother, sister, daughter, veteran and friend home.

That said, I do believe our Sheriffs will solve this case. This County is extremely conservative and has zero tolerance for criminals of any sort. I've seen very few get away with committing crimes here and the ones that are caught are prosecuted and sentenced to max extent of law. Anyone living within the state of Florida knows you don't want to get caught commuting a crime in Martin County. IMO I believe MCSO is giving SW that false sense of security by stating that he's not POI or that he passed a polygraph. I wouldn't doubt for a second that he is indeed their #1 POI and are inching their way to solving this case as we speak.
I'd also like to share why I suspect foul play was committed by SW. This is my own opinion from what I've gathered about TT's disappearance.
1. SW takes off rather quickly even knowing TT didn't pickup F like she was supposed too. I give SW the benefit of doubt taking into consideration he is active military and may not have had much choice in this matter.
But....
2. She's gone this long and SW has yet to come back, make statement, aid in the search for his childs mother. Even if SW hated TT you'd think he'd want to comfort the baby during this time without her Mom. I'm pretty sure the Air Force would allow emergency leave considering circumstances. This is huge clue that something is off here.
3. Everywhere he went were places that strike me as strange to be at their given time and circumstances. Example: Gas Station @ 1:19 a.m. (Call me crazy but this guy hasn't showed much concern for missing TT thus far but he was so concerned with making sure she has gas in her car? The Cumberland Farms gas station is exactly 0.9 miles from where B&B in Poinciana Gardens is and unless TT's tank was bone dry she was more than capable of getting gas on route back to her home. The drive to gas station is 3 minutes. Go figure) Busch Wildlife & Walmart (if F was sick enough to warrant an ER visit and still so sick at midnight that SW asked TT to come back over then why in the world would anyone take sick baby the very next day running several errands or to an outdoor Wildlife refuge in the hot Florida sun?)...These places all have cameras and IMO its almost as if he mentally staged his story knowing it could and would be verified later by cameras.
4. SW was alleged offender in domestic violence incident 2 years ago but not arrested as per Sheriff Snyder (Martin County Sheriffs)
5. *Her statement regarding him killing the animals. *This one I take with a grain of salt because no report or charges filed and in LJ she had admitted to lying or trying to set SW up in a domestic situation so that SW would have to leave house and she could be with her ex Whose initial is L.
6. HE CLEANED THE CAR!
7. Comment made by TT's stepfather regarding the way TT car was left and the errands that SW ran. Comments were: "He is real meticulous anyway but it's strange." And
"It's something you would do if some evidence was to be left behind in the car. So that is just something else that gets to be put to his motive. One more thing that doesn't look good for him."
9. A close relative of TT posted to social media having past regrets and turning a blind eye regarding domestic abuse of TT in her marriage to SW. He states and I quote "Violent behavior leads to kidnapping and possible death if you don't catch it in time."

The military grants emergency leave for very few reasons---if someone in his/her immediate family has died or death is imminent, an immediate family member has suffered life-threatening injuries, or if a natural disaster (hurricane, flood, tornado) affects the member personally. And, even in those circumstances, the approval of leave is left solely up to his/her unit commander. Emergency leave cannot be requested for pregnancies, the care of children during a spouse's illness, or marital problems. Regardless, TT would not be considered SW's immediate family because they are no longer married and none of these situations would apply.

I'll admit that the wildlife refuge trip and car wash look poorly in his favor, but I think LE has made it clear they have no reason to believe SW knows anything about her disappearance and they are no longer focusing their investigation on him. So, I trust their judgment on that.

ALSO---if SW wasn't arrested or charged with anything following the DV report, how can we really know a domestic violence incident even occured? TT may have been mad at him and called the cops. Maybe LE didn't arrest him because there was nothing at all to back up her claims? It certainly wouldn't be the first time someone got mad and called the cops on their husband/wife. She even wrote on her LJ once before about a time when she tried to "set up her husband" by making it appear he was being abusive. She was hoping he would be forced to move out so that her ex-boyfriend could move in.

I think this is the first case on WS when I haven't agreed with the majority on a suspect/theory. But, for whatever reason, my gut just tells me that SW wasn't involved.

 

[walkingdeadgirl]

So, we're allowed to openly accuse the ex AFTER LE has cleared him?

Just curious.

No, not at all.

We aren't even supposed to sleuth anyone who isn't an official person of interest, as far as I know.

 

[walkingdeadgirl]

I can agree with SW not aiding in the physical search for TT but he does have a 3 year old baby down here who
has to be very confused as to where her mom is. Maybe I'm sensitive but you'd think he'd want to comfort her. She's more a less parent-less right now.
SW may be off your radar but I have to disagree completely about SW being off LE radar. I don't recall them officially clearing SW. Information gathered during an open investigation is confidential. LE could, would and has lied many times over by feeding the public a fraction of what they uncover and bending truth if needed. Especially when what they uncover could be valuable evidence against a person. They also hate it when an individual "lawyers up" because I would think this highly reduces the chances of any confessions. I think they like to keep their friends close and enemies closer...

LE has said the following:
"He did voluntarily submit to a polygraph exam,&#8221; Snyder said. &#8220;Nothing in Mr. Williams&#8217;s lengthy interview &#8212; and it was a long, detailed interview &#8212; nor his polygraph exam indicated that he was involved or had any additional information about Tricia Todd&#8217;s disappearance.&#8221;

Snyder added that &#8220;at this point, there is no focus that needs to be on the former husband.&#8221;

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tricia-todd-missing_us_572a835ae4b0bc9cb045b3ba

That sounds like clearing him, but I agree that it could be an investigative tactic. Regardless, he isn't officially named as a POI, so we are officially not supposed to be accusing him of anything.