“Well, except you might want to talk to the cops if your baby is missing and you know that you are innocent... that is if you actually want them to find your baby.”
Unless you are John and Patsy Ramsey. They lawyered up first chance they got. What is worse the cops did not find Jonbenet in the house in the first search. As you recall, after Patsy’s death DNA evidence has cleared them both. It only proves it is best in a case like this to get a lawyer no matter if you are innocent or guilty.
In this cae, I don’t think that the problem is so much about talking to the police who are looking for the daughter, the problem that made it necessary to lawyer up was that the parents kept doing interviews with the media.
Those media interviews can be used in court. That is why Joe Tacopina was hired with the help of some anonymous person.
He now does the talking.
The Ramseys were a very exceptional case, because many of the details gave the police every reason to suspect the Ramseys, despite the fact that they were innocent. Sure, it can happen, but formulating some rule of behavior based on such an improbable circumstance is silly.