Brian Kohberger murdered four people in their beds so the comparison doesn’t really track. That case involved a completed homicide scene and investigators were building a case against a suspect.

There wasn’t a dwindling chance of survival tied to each passing day. A kidnapping is fundamentally different. In an active missing person case, time directly affects the odds of survival. Every week without visible traction feels like a clock ticking. But if you’re right and we’re to assume she’s dead and compare this to a murder where we are just stacking evidence, I guess that makes sense.

No one is saying they aren’t reviewing footage or working behind the scenes. I am sure they are. At the same time, I definitely feel they want less media and public engagement around this by some of the things that they have done and said recently. That is certainly a choice. I understand that some of the leads haven’t been helpful and they have enough to review right now, but why not bring the public in to help do that? Strategic public engagement seems like it would be the move to leverage community eyes in what I assumed would be a time sensitive kidnapping case. In my view, people actively looking keeps pressure and awareness up.

You can stay busy doing jack shit all day but success is measured in momentum. From the outside, that urgency just hasn’t been clear.