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Who says they didn't do that? They began their investigation at the missing woman's home, the place where she was reportedly last seen. They interviewed the person who claimed to have last seen her. They interviewed the people with whom she was acquainted, including family. They strove to eliminate various interviewees as suspects. Sounds like they were following a logical course of investigation.

It's not their fault if Scott, by virtue of his close relationship to the missing woman, was in the eye of the storm.

Just to pick an example out of the air, last year a woman named Alice Donovan disappeared after having been last seen in a Wal-mart parking lot, somewhere in the area where she lived. I don't recall, during the long search for her (don't think she's been found, to this day), that any member of her family has ended up charged with causing her disappearance. But you can bet the rent that the members of her family have all been interviewed and checked out.

[Later clues seemed to indicate that some escaped convicts kidnapped and killed Donovan. But the police would have had no way of knowing anything about who probably did this to her, at the beginning of their investigation.]

Hi Anse! Re your comment about Alice Donovan...She was kidnapped or seen on video being forced into a van in at a Wal-mart in Conway, SC, which is 15 miles from Myrtle Beach and not too far from the SC/NC state line. She apparently was also seen by witnesses with the perps in NC, so it is believed that she was taken to NC. Although areas in and around Conway have been searched thoroughly with no results, it is believed by authorities that she was murdered in NC, but they have not found her body to date to my knowledge. They did apprehend two perps across the Mason Dixon line, but I don't recall the state with certainty. Might have been Ohio or PA. In NC, they have charged these perps with murder. I suppose that because the case will be tried in NC, news is kind of skimpy here in SC. I haven't researched to see where and what is going on since it's not being mentioned that much anymore.