You nail it, Webmaster, but it’s more than just a matter of eyewitnesses or earwitnesses fearful or reluctant to come forward with information. Speaking about missing person cases in general: Say, hypothetically, someone disappears and hypothetically you have a known predator operating in the area – say, for example, someone contemporaneously making unwanted sexual advances toward another potential victim consistent with the missing person’s profile or demographic. In such a contingency, anyone who shields said hypothetical predator (who would be a likely suspect in the missing person case) or anyone who knowingly aids or abets such a person or persons through acts of commission or omission, exposes him- or herself to considerable legal jeopardy.
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