I SNIPPED BY ME I just haven't had the time to listen to the interviews while reading the transcripts to see if there's something missing from the audio or if it.
Once you have mate, then you will get a different feel of how the MaM producers, wanted you to think about how BD was treated. He answered some questions really quickly, at one point, robotically telling the cops what he has been told to say. It completely turns on its head that he was being led by them. If he was led by anyone in this, it was SA.
They start by asking him other questions about what was going on, and he volunteers information about a row between his Mum & SA. ALARM BELL - Steven never mentioned this. That he saw Steven when he got home and he was working. ALARM BELL - Steven said he wasn't working. The fact his Mum wouldn't let him have a Bonfire round the back of SA's on Thursday because of the argument. ALARM BELL - SA never mentions this. Planning a fire in a Burn Pit on a scrap yard, a few days after a girl is last seen on that very same scrap yard..... DING DING DING DING!
He mentions rape, without being prompted, He mentions the lawsuit, without being prompted. He mentions that TH's family might have planted the car, without being prompted. Obviously, he suggests the Police potentially framing SA, that goes without saying.
The speed of his responses is in stark contrast to when he is being interviewed formally, when he knows he is Goosed. So as he sits in the car, what he is saying to O'Neill, who at this point, is just interviewing on behalf of another county, begins to unravel as things get checked. That is why the car door keeps opening. Other officers are making calls and trying to validate that what BD says happened, is plausible.
An example is that he gets off the Bus at 345 with Blaine. The police say that they are going to check the story with Blaine. All of a sudden BD realises he has to say that he has seen her or the RAV4, because he knows that Blaine, who is not involved, could give a different version.
Now there are other kids on the Bus who might have seen something, possibly the Bus Driver. Maybe other people did not seen anything, but he doesn't know for sure. What he does know, is that he has no idea if the police have spoken to someone who has seen either TH or her RAV4 and has given a different version.
BD's first story including sight of TH is that she was there for 5 minutes, then she left. I am no detective, but my first thought would be how does he know this? He did not get home until 345 as he was at school. SA said she was there between 2 & 230. Immediate Red Flag. He is either being told to say this (therefore is lying,) or he did see her, (which also means he is lying about not seeing her.) Either way, what SA said to police, needs to be looked at further as he is the one that said she left before BD got home from school (2-230.) So guess what, he could be lying too.
Add to that the selective memory SA has on certain things. (What TH was wearing, what she looked like, the colour & length of her hair, the type of car she was driving.) Contrasted with the clear memory he had on the denomination of notes he gave her & that the clothes in his trunk where definitely not the ones he was wearing that day. (Despite not being able to recall what he actually was wearing on the Monday.)
I see it as the police trying to find a missing person and all they had to go on to begin with, was the last person she was known to have met that day. It is not quite Occam's Razor, but it did not take a genius to work out that what SA & BD said did not make sense and there was a simpler explanation than someone else other than people living on Avery's land, being involved..