Stay focused, Illbay.
Westerfield had about a quarter-gram(not a ton)of eminently falsifiable evidence against him, acuired under suspicious circumstances and timing, by people with a record of reprimands for falsifying evidence.
Ricci "confessed" to this and that unsoved crime, including stealing things from the smarts that Ed "didn't know were missing." But we'll never hear that confession in court, now, will we? Because he died of a "brain hemmorage" in jail.
You're on the right track about the creeps trying to paint Elizabeth a runaway, but you should focus on things about which you are apparently well-informed.