There's something else I'm confused about. I thought it was originally reported that Brian left to go on a day hike. That he left in the morning. But now there are conflicting reports from SB that it was at night that he was grieving/upset and left.
So when did Brian's parents first go looking for him? If it was during the night that he left, and later that same night the parents first went looking for him on the 13th, that sounds rather urgent, why didn't they report him being missing and possibly suicidal to the NPPD that night?
Also if they were concerned for his safety, enough to go looking for him on the 14th as well. Why did SB release several statements on the 14th and 15th which gave no hint to him being missing at all.
I mean we got the first statement on behalf of Brian on the 14th when he was already missing. Basically saying they were going to stay in the background. The second statement was about how LE tend to investigate intimate partner's first and Brian's not going to give any comment at this stage. Well DUH that's because he was currently missing feared dead, right, SB?
There seems some level of deceit or obfuscation going on. There's also possibly some semantic trickery, imo, because an official missing report was not filed until the 17th. SB's more recent comments seem to imply the parents were reluctant to officially file that report until that date, despite some sort of 'personal' notification on the 13th to the FBI.
It's all so confusing to me.