I agree with Tom. You can get kids to confess to crimes as yet uncommitted, or have them describe crimes which haven't been.

A while back a police spokesman said something to the effect that they knew who the perp was, and called upon the perp to turn himself in.

Makes sense that if they knew who it was, they wouldn't be asking for him to surrender himself. Seemed to make the police department look foolish.

Now, there other kid waited two hours before telling her parents that her sister had been kidnapped. Without being told to.

"SALT LAKE City Police Capt. Scott Atkinson said there was no conversation between 9-year-old Mary Katherine Smart and the suspect, seemingly a contradiction to previous reports that the girl had been warned to remain quiet."

Dad passed a polygraph. Doesn't seem to be cool enough to pass if he knew something, could have drugged himself. You have to wonder what questions they asked. Might have been designed to protect information which hasn't been released, of which there is a lot, I'm sure.

The inconclusive relative may have some suspicions, no knowledge.

I thought it she might have run off with some well-placed Mormon. And, considering the glory to the agency or reporter who figures it out, there's no broad conspiracy. The tracks are well covered.

For whatever reasons they are back-pedalling on the time line. Dad apparently didn't wait an hour to call police.

The public doesn't have enough information to adequately understand the following quote from a police spokesman.

"Atkinson added that the suspect was witnessed two different times at two different places in the house. He refused to elaborate."

Two different dates? Seen by two different people? By one person at two different places?

Someone knows a lot more than do we. And, you're right. This is screwy.