Yes, I agree with this!
The bottom line though is that it was the middle of the night, without a vehicle description to go on LE would have been severly hampered.
Yes, LE said that they left "on foot."
Elizabeth should never have gone quietly and that is the lesson that we can all teach our children. You are absolutely correct!
My point in all of this is that even if LE had done everything perfectly, Elizabeth would probably still be gone.
I agree, and at least you are NOT rude and listen to what others have to say! :) But, I still think that LE messed up, maybe thinking that they were doing the right thing...but, they messed up and they did mislead the public. Not to mention neighbors and well-meaning friends destroying possible evidence! I'm not going to harp on this anymore, but didn't anybody learn anything from the Jon-Benet Ramsey case?
(My ! are not meant to be rude...just my frustration, and are not meant to be taken personally.)
I agree that mistakes were made and LE did mislead the public, although I don't think they purposely did this. I'm sure they would handle it differently if they had it to do over again. As far as having their neighbors come into the house, that was a potential tragic mistake as far as LE building a case. I look at a family that is very busy raising active teenage children and I suspect they paid very little attention to the Jon-Bonet Ramsey case. They were hopelessly naive and have received a very painful lesson about the cold cruel world.