I can say from experience that I had a family member I was very close to murdered. She was only seventeen and the police investigation immediately focused on her boyfriend. After the first few months they eliminated everyone else. My family believed for thirteen years that her boyfriend killed her. And guess what the police were wrong. We were wrong, and some young mans life was pretty much ruined, in the least not as it should have been.
He took the 5th after being questioned by the grand jury and the police immediately equaled that to his guilt. After a PI investigated last year we found out that the person who we think allegedly killed her had been in jail from 3 months after her murder. He had committed other crimes nearly exact except the victims did not die from the strangulation as my cousin did.They were committed within 3 months of each other and in the same area. Nothing was ever in the media on his other crimes and some deal was made and he plead out for the crimes he has been arrested on. He all but admitted he killed my cousin to the PI in an interview at the prison. But all evidence is lost now and he will be released this year. All started with presuming my cousins boyfriend guilty instead of innocent until proven otherwise. This has changed the way I think, and many people should consider this before judging. After all the truth is what is important.

Just to say something about the alleged abuse of the Mom Crystal. I can’t say if it is true or not, but I can tell you that I was in a very violent relationship many years ago. I hid it because of shame. And when I did finally left I was stalked for 3 years and nearly killed. I did not tell people about it, I am saying it online because it is pretty anonymous. But I got out because of my children and fought to keep him away from them. I had no lawyer and no money, but I did not give up. I would have died before leaving my children with an abuser. So that part I do not understand. And if I lost custody I’d be fighting and filing non-stop. If the address of the mom was purposely stated false then she has a case for him falsifying information. And the child support part disturbs me. I am not trying so much to pick at the mother but just to open eyes and make people think. If it were reversed, people would think the parent who owed not the greatest parent. I can see missing payments but years of payments is neglect. If it were a man doing that he would be ridiculed. I just think speculating and factual are very different things. There are too many possible things to consider. And in front of a camera is very hard for some people. They might be nervous and not accustomed to it so I don’t think anyone should judge. Like my cousins boyfriend’s life, innocent lives could be ruined. He also refused a lie detector. Normally people consider that as guilt, my family certainly did. It seems to me that neither parent has had the greatest behavior. Both seem to be responsible. As a parent you have the duty to see your child is safe and well cared for. But I don’t know anyone involved here. The lawyers are going back and forth. And putting that child on national TV is just wrong, I will judge there. Not only is any identification of the person who did this down the drain, but if there is a kidnapper out there and he or she thinks this child can ID him/her the child could now be at risk. Really what did it gain? I don’t know that this Cobra guy does not have some agenda. I’d like to see someone who does not have anything to gain investigate this. This guy seems to have a personal relationship with the moms lawyer, so I tend to think he is not as objective as he could be. Well I am just adding my opinion. It is hard to say what happened, they all seem shady to me, but they all could be innocent. I hope and pray she is found alive and unharmed, I really truly do. I can’t imagine the pain they are all going through.