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Why would the Smarts deliberately defy the instructions of the competent and diligent law enforcement personnel who were knocking themselves out trying to identify the kidnapper and find Elizabeth? Especially when their defiance would almost certainly be detected, and would tend to cast suspicion on them?

Because that's what normal human being loving parents would do? That's why. It goes against every grain of human nature for them to have not questioned her immediately and at length -- unless they already pretty much knew the answers.

We either believe the parents were questioning Mary K. some, or we believe they just didn't talk to her about it. I believe that they obviously had a conversation (or more than one) with her the night of the abduction, b/c obviously she told them something about Elizabeth being missing. Otherwise they'd have slept on till their normal waking hour.

If we believe that the Smarts were talking periodically to Mary K. all along, then we have to believe that the police are not being truthful about having had complete access to her. B/C if the police were given 100% free rein with Mary K., then I do think they'd have told the family not to get into it with her b/c of the power of suggestion.

I don't think the police would have lied about having access to Mary K. I think they'd have been really irritated if her parents had kept her from them, and it would have showed in their public actions.

It appears that the Smarts were not afraid to have police and Jean Boylan put Mary K. through the mill. This speaks well for them. (Of course there is always the possibility that the whole thing with the man was staged for the benefit of planting false "knowledge" in Mary K.'s mind. But that would be so elaborate a scheme as to be almost beyond belief.)

There is no doubt that the Smarts have been very evasive about what Mary K. has said about this whole thing. But Lois was supposedly in most or all of the interviews of Mary K., so she must know most of what she said. Clearly, they do not want to tell the public what info was really gotten out of Mary K. I wonder if this will change now. B/C from that recent article, it seems the Smarts are thinking that the main suspect is now dead. (Or, for those who suspect the Smarts, they have finally gotten what they wanted all along: to get away with it, and not have anyone coming after whoever did it.)