Still, it would be hard to actually get past reasonable doubt unless you can show there are inconsistencies or lies in the different people's versions of events.
It'd be interesting to know if they can rule out any movement of potential third parties in the area.
The cops already said there are a number of inconsistencies in what they've been told by the family during the press conference when they publicly declared it a major crime. But no idea if those inconsistencies apply to the basic information the media reported at the beginning or other things that were never made public. And no way of knowing who said what. If we were taking bets, I'd guess that tranpa tried to use his daughter as an alibi and then she poked enough holes in it that it wouldn't carry water anymore. Something like:
Silence of the Lambs: 'Jess and I were totally out there, miles away, all day long having quality mommy-daughter time working the sheep station, we call it our 'Little Bo Peep time,' inseparable, more like sisters really, twins even, Josie and
Jessie, I bought us matching panties....anyway, Gus disappeared or something when my wife was watching him so you should go ask her I guess. Don't know why you're even bothering talking to Jess, already told you, she was with me all day.'
Jess: 'My father and I drove out separately, then he said he needed to get something and went back to the house. He was gone for hours, and he didn't come back with anything, but it was starting to get dark anyway then so we went home and when we got there mum was frantic and said she couldn't find Gus. Night fell, we couldn't find him, but dad just kept saying we couldn't call the cops. We looked for three hours.'
Same press conference, they also explained they'd tracked and ruled out hundreds of potential third parties anywhere near the area and it was almost impossible that someone off the property could have grabbed him without anyone noticing. Cops are fallible at the best of times and plenty are shockingly incompetent, so there's a lot they could have missed or gotten wrong, but we do know that at least that's an angle they've logged some significant hours on.
Also, why the fuck would Transpa do an interview? There's no way his lawyers would think that's a good idea. It displays an awful lot of confidence that he won't get caught.
I could see a lawyer deciding that a coached, carefully controlled interview might be some needed damage control after the aggressive shit his client's been caught doing (think pre-approved questions with rehearsed answers). Try to squeeze out a tear to milk public sympathy. Stupidly, public opinion and pressure does have a significant influence on criminal cases (see: 'Making a Murderer' and 'Serial' for media pushing an unfounded innocence narrative that whips up a mob of gullible dipshits to undermine justice), and think right now they've only got the career 'allies' who would blame the cat before they'd point the finger at 'Josie' who aren't on team 'he's guilty as fuck.' If they do this right, they can get a lot more of the public split off going down rabbit holes and obsessing over irrelevant information thrown out to deliberately sow doubt. And calling up police demanding they look into all kinds of stupid dead ends and leave poor 'Josie' alone. Shifting public pressure. So if this WAS the lawyer's idea, I'd read that as a sign that they're nervous about charges actually being brought.
But then again, tranny. Their whole schtick is trying to override how people see them, so could just as easily be something he decided to do despite his lawyer's advice. Even though the entire family has been weirdly quiet and invisible for this kind of case, he was the most visible/talkative one when this was a lost child case. Conspicuously. He's just the grandpa, not a parent and not the one who was named the last to see the kid. He's on bad terms with the father. So why was he the one to step into that role if it wasn't about inserting himself into the investigation and trying to control shit? Think this interview is going to be more of the same.
