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Thanks for the pings, brigette! My feeling is that this case was mishandled from the beginning (thank you, Uncle Tom) and the police are still scratching their heads. Can't understand why the parents didn't employ a high-powered attorney and PI immediately. Oops, Uncle Tom. It's my opinion that the family has an idea who the abductor is - but, maybe not.

Sounds like you bought into the Marc Klaas theory. Uncle Tom is only a photographer for the Deseret News - a career that hasn't made him either wealthy or influential. The purported influence that Klaas claimed that Tom had on the family is a myth. Klaas claimed that Tom had thwarted his efforts to get Boylan involved as the sketch artist. It is not a stretch to assume that the police/FBI thought of a sketch artist all by themselves and may have even involved one - without any success - in all likelyhood because the perp was wearing a ski mask or stocking over his face. Klaas claimed it was Tom who kept the sketch from being drawn. The police/FBI do not need the uncle's or even the parents permission to involve a sketch artist in a case with an eye witness in a federal crime.

The Smart family chose to work with the Laura Foundation from Texas - in part because Klaas was acting as less then an honest broker i.e. his contract with Fox News gave him an agenda other than finding Elizabeth.

Kind of like the JonBenet Ramsey family did? Didn't the parents take four months to be interviewed by the police, and they had their lawyers there? And to be honest, how did Tom Smart cause the police to mishandle the investigation? I'm with you on the private investigator though, I'd never thought of that option.