I'm sure LE was looking at every angle from day one. They have to look at all possibilities. If they hadn't and Bill was arrested, his defense would be they had tunnel vision and focused only on him. If this had been a young child that had gone missing, it would've been handled somewhat differently but because Cheryl was an adult they HAD to consider that she ran off. Regardless of anything Bill did or didn't say, Cheryl had filed for divorce, she was seeing another man and Bill was seeing another woman. People in those situations do run off. They had to get a warrant from a judge to search that house. They conducted the search as soon as the judge signed the warrant. Again if Cheryl had been a child, it would've been much easier to get the search warrant but because she was an adult who was fully capable of taking care of herself if she left to start a new life, LE had to show the judge how they had ruled out that likelihood. It takes time to do that.
You're entitled to your opinion but it gets tiresome when you clearly don't understand the process and steps involved in a missing adult investigation. You have bad mouthed LE constantly when you haven't the slightest idea of what they've been doing or what evidence they have uncovered.
