Good grief. YOU sense evil? You call pete a messed up convict type? -- Pete was out there in Nam, putting his life on the line while you were acting 'tough cop' in front of a bunch of losers.
Your prior record of posts here at FR have real evidence of the 'evil' in your heart, as does the one above. -- Pete may be cynical, but at least he is honest to himself. You're a rank hypocrite, in my book.
Sneakypete was in Vietnam? Well, gee, so were a lot of us. And what does that have to do with such a poisoned outlook on life? Such a person needs help, not mere sympathy.
May I ask what does serving in Nam have to do with this issue??
Those who seem intent on the focus of the defense of the parent's lifestyle, to the point of saying it had nothing at all to do with the child's disappearance have are closing their eyes to a major avenue of investigation.
The most basic questions in an investigation of this type are:
Who had the opportunity? Who had the motive? What are the discrepencies in the statements given by the "witnesses"?
To me, it is more than reasonable to check out those people who were in that house around the time of the disappearance. That these persons are known to be stimulated by by non ordinary sexual activities, could be considered a possible motive. That they were in the house, gives them opportunity.
To deny that the parent's alternative lifestyle could possiblity have contributed to the disappearance of their daughter is to close off a major avenue of investigation.