I hear you, Kaboom, and that's certainly one way of looking at it.

And who knows? You could be right, but we do try to be victim friendly, even though the victims can make it hard at times!
The trouble I was referring to was hiring a PI and an attorney and traveling to Mexico to meet with LE, etc. If this is a hoax of some kind, there is always the danger of that coming back to bite him. So I have decided to assume that he's for real because of taking that risk. I'm not sure what cases you are referring to. Maybe I'm naive, but I don't have any proof he's done anything other than make some shockingly poor decisions and communicate poorly. I'm not willing to leap from that to being guilty of doing something to Jenny at this point.
You're correct in your summary of what we know and that our only source is JR (except for the attorney's radio interview and the Chinese Embassy news release). Given that MSM has not weighed in for months, I'm surprised the thread is still open. I don't know, shall we vote to ask a mod to shut it down? Or do we want to keep watching this trainwreck in hopes there will be answers?