Originally posted by sonhouse
Yes, she was reported missing on the 14th. Do you live near Santa Fe? One thing that makes us made is Paul being grilled for 12 hours on the assumption he was the perp., all the while letting the real killer get that much further away. It was only when they found blood not belonging to either Paul or Sharon in her car that they searched around the vacinity of her car.
would not take that to heart, they'd look at most-likely suspects first, especially people with access to the house, and sounds like they had to do blood tests and a phone record search before finding a different angle, all that takes time and would probably have been handled in parallel.