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No biggie. I have been watching lots of cable discussions about this case, and I know many of the commentators have long been saying things such as, "Well, it's obvious the police are treating this as a homicide investigation, because, etc."

The police made this big announcement today. But they aren't so dumb that they haven't known since the first few days that this was a dire situation. I mean, come on. Who but the deluded Jackie Peterson would think that a lady who had hoped for a baby for years, would suddenly drop out of sight of EVERY friend and loved one she'd had for years, only 1-2 months before she knew she'd be needing medical attention to safely bring this longed-for baby into the world?

At first, no one wanted to say it. (Except a few internet idiots who go around from forum to forum trying to "shock" everyone.) No one wanted to be so indelicate as to say, "She's dead. Decomposing somewhere. Gone." Because we all know the family members are out there, and why would we want to increase their pain? Things said on the internet spread like wildfire among even non-computerized people.

But the police have to deal in reality only.

And you don't think they got those extensive search warrants by saying to a judge, "We've got a really important MISSING PERSON case here, judge"?

So I think you've been right. I think they just made this public announcement to try to get as many people as possible to face reality, as they themselves already have.

Unfortunately, nothing seems to be able to penetrate all the way into the twilight of Scott's poor mother's mind.

Thanks, DA, I appreciate that. There is no doubt in my mind that they have been treating this as a homocide. (I'm thinking of the bay dragging here; you don't immediately go drag bays for missing persons unless perhaps that person had been seen wandering around that location--depressed). It seems to me that treating it as a homocide had come from none other than some spokesperson at MPD, but I could be wrong about that. Perhaps the problem here is language. They may have on their documentation classified her as a missing person, but verbally they were saying that they were treating it as a homocide. Today, they may have simply changed that classification, and a $50k award for location of her body has been announced versus the $500k from the foundation for her safe return.