[Valpal1]

I can't help you if you are incapable of understanding standard LEO procedure or using simple logic.

If they had "tip" on Westerfield they would have put out an APB for him and his HM. A girl's life was at stake. If they had a tip they would have acted on it ASAP, not two days later in the course of normal contact interviews. His name came up on the list of persons with recent contact. Not on a hot sheet.

They had no reason to suspect him on Saturday or Sunday, thus no APB. They went to interview him on Monday in the normal course of interviewing everyone on the recent contact list.

[MizSterious]

Funny. People always ask for a source. I post a source, a good source. A live interview, on videotape, of an officer's statement. You, however, do not wish to take the man at his word. He said they looked at Westerfield because someone pointed him out. That's a tip. If they did not have an APB on him perhaps they had their reasons. I cannot say what those might be, because so far no one's told me. But they have told me why they looked at Westerfield. Because someone pointed him out. Very simple.