Just so you know, I haven't made up my mind what exactly his role is in all this but the one thing I'm convinced about is that he knows more than he's telling and there are things that make my hinky meter rise about him.
I'll give it my best shot to try to answer your questions from my point of view.
Because so many of you really believe that RC is somehow involved...and I am new to this site and don't know a lot of the facts of the case, I have taken the last couple of days to rethink my stance of not thinking that RC was involved (physically/and knowing before anything happened). I'm sorry but even after all of the thinking I have done, I just can't change my position on this. Maybe you guys/gals can answer my questions to make me think upon this some more.
1) RC has an alibi...he was at work. Wouldn't we have heard something if this were not true or if he wasn't there at some point during his shift? LE has established his alibi is true have they not? I honestly believe we would have heard SOMETHING if he really wasn't there or had left at some point.
The thing is, I've been here almost from the start and during that time we have heard quite a bit about how he might not have been there at some point during his shift. None of those rumors was ever confirmed by LE so they might not be true... but a few of the rumors in this case have turned out to be true so who knows.
LE said something to the effect that they were satisfied with his story. It might mean that they've confirmed everything and believe that it's completely true... but it also might mean that they were satisfied that it was his story and he was gonna stick to it and at that point they saw no reason to tip their hand about whatever evidence they might have had to the contrary. We don't know.
Another thing that makes me suspicious of Ron's alibi is the shifting nature of his hours. We've spent countless hours here biting our fingers and banging our heads trying to pinpoint his exact hours, there were so many different versions and all of the sudden a new one would surface. If his alibi is solid, it has been surprisingly difficult to get a straight answer once and for all, he worked from A to B doing C and we know this because of D.
And then there were the cell pings. IIRC at some point Art Harris reported that there were two cell pings for Ronald at PDM and it was interpreted, uhhuh, he was at work, so his alibi is solid then, huh? But if Art's information was correct it seems odd because we later heard that Ronald supposedly made lots of phonecalls to Misty that night and if he only pinged twice at PDM where were the rest of his pings?
Number four of my reasons of being suspicious of his alibi is that he was promptly fired when he was supposed to return to work. There might be numerous reasons why that had nothing to do with his alibi that night and I'm just speculating but I couldn't help wondering if he'd have been fired if the investigators checking his alibi would have revealed that he was skipping work to his superiors. Supposedly the reason was job abandonment and it was explained that it was because he didn't call his employer while he was on leave and they didn't know if he was going to return but it sounded like an excuse to me. They must have known when he was planning to return to work because they invited LE there for safety. Suppose the job abandonment happened 9th Feb?
2) Both RC and MC took LDT(s). We have heard everytime MC failed one...this leads me to believe that we would have also heard if RC failed his also. (or have we heard he did and I missed that one?)
I'd have to say that the results are inconclusive on that one... I have no idea if he passed or failed, I just know he said he passed. LE hasn't released any of their LDT results. We didn't hear that Misty failed her LDT's until she took the private one with TES. Up until then the only information that we had was what we had been told by RC and Misty. LE said nothing about Misty until she failed Tim Miller's test and then they commented that it came as no surprise to them, letting us infer that she'd failed tests before. But LE has said nothing about RC's results as far as I know. Ronald said that he passed his LDT with flying colors and went on to add that they both passed. We now know that it was apparently a lie or a mistake about Misty passing hers, so it casts doubt on whatever he said about his test results too. I'm not even certain if LE would tell RC if he or anybody else passed or failed.
3) To me, MC really seems like she would throw ANYONE under the bus to "prove" her own Innocence...why hasn't she done this with RC? I know a lot of you are going to say it's because he "controls" her...but seriously...he can't control her from jail and if she really knows that RC had something to do with it wouldn't she spill the beans so-to-speak just to try to make a deal for herself? IMO There's no way she's going to say that because she knows he didn't and she can't "prove" he did.
I agree that MC gives the impression that she throws anyone under the bus to save her own backside. So much so that I've been saying that watch out, whoever she's not attempted to point fingers at is probably the guilty party.
I don't know about fear or control, but if she's keeping his guilty secret it might be because,
1) she's in love or obsessed with him(evidence: the tat after the divorce...) and/or
2) it's her guilty secret too, and she can't throw him under the bus without getting hit herself. It would do her no good to do a deal to get rid of the drug charges in exchange for a murder charge (to take the worst case scenario).
4) I believe if RC's alibi would have fallen down around him or if he had failed the LDT then he would have been arrested long before he was arrested on the drug charges...especially the part about the alibi.
Maybe, maybe not. They didn't arrest MC although her story was full of holes and she apparently kept failing LDTs. They didn't arrest Tommy (not for hurting Haleigh anyway) even though he admitted he'd lied about his alibi. It's one thing to be suspicious of somebody's alibi and another to be able to take it to court because it's not enough to prove that you weren't where you said you were, they also need to prove beyond reasonable doubt that what you did instead was to hurt a child.
5) Some people on here say that MC was jealous of the relationship between RC and HC because HC "was his heart". If this is indeed true (and considering he is her father...I would love to believe this is true) why would he do something like "this" to her. I say "this" because we don't truely know if HC is dead or alive.
That's a tough one to reply because it's really hard to say "this" could or could not have happened without a definition of this. I don't know what he or Misty felt, what happened or who did what, but going by my general impressions about dysfunctional families, just because there is a jealous girlfriend I can't rule out that the father might have some violent tendencies or contribute to a tragic accident or negligent death somehow. Some violent outburst seems quite possible to me given that we've heard about several instances that he's threatened people or been involved in fights.
Misty may or may not have been jealous of Ronald and Haleigh's relationship but IMO if she was it tells us more about her own psyche than it tells us about RC's fatherhood. For all we know Haleigh may indeed have been his heart but despite that we have also observed that he has occasionally been an indifferent parent, letting drugs get in the way of taking proper care of his children, the latest example being he's in jail instead of looking after Jr.
So... I don't know. They're in jail for drugs now and it's not the first time RC has been associated with drugs. I think if they're heavy drug users anything is possible. People might do things under the influence that they wouldn't do otherwise or fail to do some other things that they should to keep their children safe, even if they think that they love their kids above all things.
6) In interviews I have seen RC do (and I'll be the first to admit that I have probably missed quite a few)...when talking about his daughter he talks as if she's still with us. When MC does an interview she talks about her in the past tense...like she knows she's gone. Maybe I'm reading way to much into this part but I have to believe if my son was missing there's no way I could talk about him in the past tense unless I KNEW for SURE he is no longer with us.
Believe me when I say that I don't believe RC should get father of the year because he has done a LOT of messed up things. But I also can't bring myself to believe that he was involved in his daughters disappearance. These are all just my opinions and not meant to offend anyone. All thoughts about each of these points are welcome!!!
Interesting how you can get two totally different views watching the same interviews. I was struck by several interviews that made me think this man knows that his daughter is dead, but it was already discussed so I'll say no more about it.
Later on, it bothered me that he seemed to me to avoid talking about Haleigh, avoided mentioning her name, even, and when he did it was often just to say focus on Haleigh and not on whatever it was about his personal life that he didn't want looked at right then.
I don't know what happened and what RC's role in it was but I am suspicious because of the above and because of his attitude to Misty, apparently covering for her although it was getting glaringly obvious that she lied.
