[GovernmentShrinker]

Newsflash: Beards aren't permanent fixtures -- they grow and can be shaved off. The fact that he has a beard now tells us nothing about whether he had one on the night of June 5, 2002.

[mountaineer]

Beards aren't permanent fixtures -- they grow and can be shaved off.

Really? Wow, what a newsflash, indeed. This photo was taken of Mitchell just days before Elizabeth disappeared. Perhaps he shaved off the beard and bought a Polo shirt and golf cap just for the occasion of her impending kidnapping.