Quote Originally Posted by ThisYouWillDo View Post
All the material evidence in the JonBenet case indicated that someone else was the killer, not the parents at all. Only malicious newspapers and gossip-mongers chose to point the finger of blame at the mother and father. Let's not see the same thing happen again. If the McCanns have questions to answer, let them do so. But don't make up the answers for them.
Unfortunately, the police and/or prosecutors were so focused on the Ramsey's that they apparently disregarded (and possibly suppressed) any evidence which didn't seem to point to them. And the news media stepped right into line with the police, at least at first, all but convicting the Ramsey's of the crime without any corroborating evidence.

I haven't paid all that close attention to the McCann case, but it's my understanding that the Portuguese police are doing much the same, focusing on the parents to the exclusion of any other evidence. If this is so then you certainly can't blame the parents for getting their message out into the open, forcing the police to look elsewhere.