- Why did the local police (under-staffed or not - could have gotten help from County Sheriffs), not at least keep a pair of eyes on him and his parents from the start?
- Parents are not "uber-rich", they seem to be normal middle-class folk - how the heck did they all bamboozle Law Enforcement with relatively limited resources? (Help from some one in LE?)
- When exactly were the FBI brought in? This is an interstate crime - isn't that one of their functions?
Their house is more modest than their income. This past year, they’ve sold a house, a condo and a business. If they didn’t put their money in a bank, there is under the radar access to it.
The day before he went “missing”, the chief of police made an announcement they had eyes on him and knew exactly where he was. The next day, when his parents said he was gone, the cops had to admit for 5 days they’d been unable to contact him. Who knows how long before that. This ridiculous swamp search is them trying to save face.
Rule waterboarding legal for one day and make those sick parents talk.
If he’s not sipping umbrella drinks on a beach in a non-extradition country, he’s in the Appalachians. Get a bottle of blonde hair dye or shave that silly beard thing he’s go going and he’s gone.
“How was he NOT a person of interest from the get-go?”
Initially an adult young woman was reported “missing” by her parents 2000 miles away. It was unclear even in what State she went “missing”, and whether she actually was missing or simply split up with her boyfriend and either travelled on by some other means or stayed with someone else. Our system requires a jurisdiction, evidence of crime, etc., before declaring people “suspects”. The killer had legal knowledge or more likely, advice and help, to exploit this.