National media coverage is pretty well being taken up by the Rockefeller case, lol. Besides national media coverage is overrated, unless there is a chance the person responsible has run away. Or in cases where the local LE is lackadaisical.
Police don't seem to be talking, or at least local media isn't writing about it. But a lot of times that means that LE is close to a suspect and don't want to spook him. I believe they are doing more behind the scenes. I first suspected the ex BF, and still haven't seen anything that really says it wasn't him. But the bar owner has me puzzled. Somehow I get a sense that he knows more than what he is saying publicly.
I mean a girl was last seen alive in his bar. He has to have more concern than what he is showing. I mean even if he is cold enough to not care about the death of someone in his bar, this could ruin the rep of his bar and I think that would concern him. His comment about the bartender puzzles me. You don't mention something that could throw suspicion toward a friend or aquaintance, unless you suspect them... or are trying to divert attention away from yourself.
We aren't hearing from people at the bar that night, the people that saw her, saw who she was talking to and saw what was happening in the bar. But I trust that LE is interviewing them. From what I have read, this seems to be a small bar. Which means that many of them know each other.