BBM...I think this is what bugs some people. It bugs me. LE was so closed mouthed that I don't think we have the slightest inkling what they know.
I'm not saying Terri is innocent. I have absolutely no gut feeling one way or the other. But it really does bother me that they focused so quickly and sharply on Terri and still couldn't come up with more. She's clearly not that bright.
My cousin who is in LE assured me that they were doing the right thing by keeping it quiet; I wonder if they still feel that way 2 years down the road.
It bothers me that they keep quiet from a human, caring standpoint - because I'm invested in Kyron emotionally by now, I'd like to know everything they know about his disappearance. But from a practical standpoint I know that this is how things work, and they have practical reasons for the things they withhold.
Also, I'm not sure what it would gain the case to have explained all their evidence to the public. As far as a strategy for finding Kyron goes, would putting all the evidence on the table through the media have helped locate him or his remains? I honestly don't know the answer to that question myself. But I do understand how they continued to believe they were getting real information from people (the searches in specific areas they said were targeted and based on leads) and since it appeared they were looking for remains during those land searches, they must have evaluated the risk of someone being able to move the body or the evidence before search teams could be gathered.
They focused on Terri because the things she did and said were suspicious, and because (apparently, but I do believe) she wrote things in her emails before he disappeared that made her appear to have motive for harming him. I honestly don't think LE stopped following other leads to chase her. I don't. They were following their strongest lead.
I also don't see Terri as a bright person, but no-body family crimes are often left to founder, because most of the typical evidence left behind is completely normal in a family car, or in the house, or the clothes, etc. If Terri did take Kyron and do something to him, and if he lost hair and skin cells or dropped a pokemon card or lost a sock as he was put into the truck - it's not evidence of a crime. If Terri were a stranger, those same things would fry her in court. She was supposed to be at school with him, he was supposed to be seen with her, his stuff is supposed to be in the home and cars and on Terri herself (hair, fiber, etc). That's why the no-body within-family crimes take MORE than your average criminal stupidity. Most of the best evidence is disqualified before they even start. She would have to have gone above and beyond the call of stupidity to do something that created an extra level of evidence beyond what is normally used to convict.
Essentially I think they'd have to find his remains (if deceased) and find them in a place someone could put Terri as well that morning (and I think that's what the searches were about), or with something that could only have belonged to Terri (can't even think what that would be).
Or they would have to find the person she paid to take Kyron away (or kill him), and have that person willing to admit to being a kidnapper/murderer but also appear honest enough to convince LE and ultimately a jury that aside from being capable of stealing and killing children, they were nevertheless honest enough to point to Terri truthfully.
Or she would have to confess.
Anyway... all of that is to say that Terri is a very dim bulb, but she would have to have been even more than just ordinary stupid to have left the only type of evidence that would point to her. If that makes sense
