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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.