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I'm guess because it kept the media busy reporting misinformation instead of asking morepertinent questions like they did today. The business with the non sketch and the alledged abductor remaining in the home longer than necessary makes you wonder if it is someone that they know very well.

To release a sketch to the media.... could the media recognize this person? If so, then could viewer's also recognize this person. Today's conference lent more to the family/friend abductor angle, in my opinion.

And the police would not say what the second area of the house was. Why not? How could revealing that hinder the case? This whole case is very strange. If it were a mere ransom, why no ransom request yet (that we are aware of), and if there had been one, you'd think it would have been met by now. Very odd indeed.

Revealing ANY facts about the case can hinder the investigation, primarily by making it difficult to sort out real tips from fake ones. They still have backlog of 400 tips deemed worth following up on which have not yet been followed up on, and that's after screening out at least 6700 which were deemed not worth following up on. Many "tips" which are not worth following up on are deliberate hoaxes, which are made harder to screen out when the public has a lot of detailed information about the case.

There is no reason for the investigators to reveal any facts, except those that they have reason to believe may HELP the investigation if made public. Making lots of information public tends to cause investigators' time to be spent on wild goose chases. I don't see how it could possibly help the investigation for us to know where else in the house Mary Katherine saw the abductor. The public's help is only needed to provide information about the possible whereabouts of Elizabeth and/or her abductor since they left house.