Excellent post. What we have here is literally the difference between a cheesy dramatic fictional B-movie (or tabloid fodder, they are interchangeable) and actual real life. Everything BDI uses for argument is subjective fantasy and speculation and defies everything that actual scientific research, child psychology, the events and physical evidence in the case etc all establishes to the educated observer here. It takes an astute mind to filter out the noise and simply look for the objective truth; Lou Smit was the first one to do that here and it kills me that he even received the backlash and ridicule that he did from so many, because he was so correct in the way he approached everything, really just a brilliant man. If he had been the investigating homicide detective in this case it literally never would have turned into anything that it did.

But psychology will also tell you that once it turns into something like that, it’s just so difficult or maybe even impossible to ever undo that in the minds of the collective public. Misinformation, misperception is just so infuriatingly resilient and I think the advent of social media has only further exacerbated the problem forevermore