TN & Ron have been severely criticized for going along with and supporting Misty, with the apparent reason of keeping her close and hoping for her to relax and supply information that will lead to Haleigh. For whatever reason, they have come to realize that this tactic was not working and have started to disengage from her and disassociate. Although it took awhile, it is hard, as txlady2 says, to be objective sometimes when you are in the middle of the situation.
Here's what I find so bizarre - now we find out that TM tried the exact same tactic! By his own admission, he used DS to befriend and get close to Misty, hoping for her to relax and supply information that will lead to Haleigh. Does this sound familiar...?
So what gives?
- To be consistent do we severely criticize TM? Or is it okay for him to do this but not okay for TN & Ron?
I don't have anything against TM trying it if he thought it might work. I assume that his plot did not place an already traumatized child who had lost his sister in Misty's constant presence, possibly putting him to further danger from her or her friends, and in subjecting him to a strange mindgame in which he was being told to love and trust somebody who the adults around him didn't trust (mixed messages) and who quite possibly wasn't worth it and would leave in a few short month's time anyway, thus causing him further loss, if there was real attachment.
- Is TM in cahoots with TN and Ron and this was just another step in the attempt to get Misty to crack, just like the LDT's, voice analysis, and hypnosis?
I thought maybe he might have been but after listening to the tape in which he basically tells his opinion of Ron along with Misty I don't think so, it doesn't sound like he's in cahoots with Ron. JMO. I'd think he'd be a bit kinder about Ron if they were plotting together.
- Is the divorce another attempt to get Misty to break or has Ron really reached the end of his rope with her?
If it was the end of the rope why did they both leave the door open for reconciliation further down the road when they talked about the divorce?
He said something about having heard people say he enabled Misty and fine, now he divorced her, go find his daughter. IMO it sounded like a dare, a taunt, directed at LE.
- Now that DS has been "outed" and Misty's lawyer has quit, who does Misty have left for support?
Good question. Not an awful lot of people.
- What the heck do they do now, (TN, Ron, TM, etc.)??
- If PCSO, FDLE, the FBI, TM, MN, TN, GGMA, RC, and Misty's family have all tried in every way imaginable to get her to be honest and consistent about what happened the night Haleigh was taken, and they have been not able to get this 17 year old girl to change the basics of her story, maybe she really was passed out and truly does not know what happened and is telling all that she can remember! If so, then if LE may not be any closer to finding the truth about Haleigh and may have been barking up the wrong tree. The biggest question of all is will LE finally start looking more closely and seriously at other people and possibilities to solve this case?