Sometimes psychology boils down to common sense. NittanyLion gave an OPINION based on your insistence on disagreeing with everyone else through your many posts on the subject. Sure, you have a right to your opinion. And I have the right to suggest you might be seeking attention.
You may take that as "analyzing" you, also. I enjoy a good debate as well as you do. My view is always based on my strong belief in what I'm putting out and sensible reasoning behind it. Sometimes I'm convinced to change my thinking, but not always.
While I don't recall exactly what I thought about Ted K. before this tragedy, enough information was made public in the following days to convince almost anyone of his negligence in trying to save Mary Jo. The whole timeline of what took place that early morning and the days after was on the web; it may still be.
Zero in on this alone: Can you come up with ONE believable reason why he did not go to the closest house and ask for help? And then there's the rest of the story.
He was freaked out. He was afraid. He wasn't thinking rationally.
I think this is very believable.