"Leave them alone....let them be."
Grow up. They willingly went on national TV for all to see. People who wish to be left alone generally don't make the talk-show circuit.
I agree completely/ Once about 15 years ago, I came home and my wife said, "The Donahue Show" called,they wanted to know if you'd like to be on a show about people who can't deal with their noisy neighbors". We had, months earlier, an impossible group of young folks living upstairs in a nice 3-flat building: entering the building and noisily bounding up the front stairs at all hours of day and night, barbells dropping down on the floor over our heads, music played at such ear-splitting volume past midnight we couldn't sleep, and a hundred other indignities. Constant requests to PLEASE keep the noise level down was met with assurances quickly forgotten within a few hours. After months of this, I went and filed a complaint, and met them in court---turns out we were both given the wrong courtroom, so the judge told me to re-apply for anew hearing. I dropped the case then because we finally found a house to move into in a FAR better town.When the neighbors found out we were finally moving out the next day they bounced a basketball over the living room for a few hours to further antagonize us, and placed two large stereo speakers face-down on the floor, turning up the music as loud as they could. But shows like the Donahue show at the time, will send assistants to scour court records and cobble together shows like this.
Oprah doesn't need to because she can cherry-pick the highest of high-profile cases everyone already knows about.
But when my wife relayed the info about being on the show, my entire body shook with aversion and revulsion: the LAST thing I would EVER do would be to expose myself on TV,over even a mundane case like that.
These people went public years ago to try and get their son home. Now they have him and feel a responsibility to continue their work so that other parents of missing children can experience the joy they have.