I agree a secret sibling is not a big deal. It apparently wasn't of concern for Ms. Sallis to keep her daughter from meeting and reuniting with her dads side of the family, something she herself has said she encouarged her daugther to do. 5 visits is quite a few. More than we were led to believe in the beginning of this case.
Not knowing the circumstances surrounding this other half sibling, I don't know why Ms. Sallis felt it necessary to tell DB, unless this sibling had a relationship with Phylicia and she did not want to put Phylicia in a position of keeping that secret from her half siblings D, K and B.
Respectfully, there has been no direct evidence linked to RB indicating he had any part of his daughters murder. Yes, I can see some believing his parenting skills and parenting involvement in his childrens lives was greatly lacking possibly leading them to make poor decisions in who they associated with. However, Deena, Kelly and Bryan are all adults, responsible for their own decisions.
Sadly, I am afraid this focus on Mr. Barnes will take people's focus off the actual persons responsible for Phylicia's murder. I hope I am wrong. I understand Ms Sallis's anger and my heart aches for her.
In all honesty, I do believe the Barnes families greif is real. Deena and Kelly will have to live with the consequences Phylicia suffered as a result of their poor decisions for the rest of their lives. I believe they are and will be harder on themselves than anyone else on any message board or blog can be. Do I believe either Deena or Kelly had direct involvement? No. If PB had od'd tox reports would already been back and arrests would have already been made. I believe, and this is moo, Michael raped and then killed Phylicia in order to keep her quiet.
I continue to pray an arrest or arrests come soon in this case.
JMO