The police claim that people must wait a certain amount of time before filing a missing person report is an incorrect statement.

“And you know what? I still hear of people that are told this to this day that you have to wait a certain amount of time to report your loved one missing. That is not true. Remember that. Tell everyone you know that is [ __ ] And if any law enforcement officer tries to tell you that, they're they're ”

The first 24 to 48 hours of a missing child case are absolutely vital for a positive outcome.

“the first 24 to 48 hours of a missing person's case is absolutely vital especially when it's a child because beyond that point the chances of them coming back alive decrease so rapidly”

The public is urged to review dash cam or surveillance footage from the travel route on the specified dates to assist in the search for Melody.

“police have asked if any of you were in the areas of that route on those dates to let law enforcement know to check dash cam video, to check camcorders, to check surveillance footage, doorbell cams, anything just to do due diligence and see if there was anything you might have seen in those areas.”

She believes that the unidentified man Brittany was with is the most likely person to have been in the car during the incident.

“If someone was in the car with her, it has to be this guy that she left grandma's with.”

The behavior of the suspect seen in the video does not indicate an organized or experienced offender.

“I don't believe the behavior supports an organized experienced offender, but I do believe they probably fantasized about how this was all going to come about, how it was going to work perfectly.”

The homeless man sighting should remain an open tip in her investigation despite the police determining it is not Brian Shaffer.

“So, unfortunately, I, you know, I didn't gain any more information about it, but the homeless man is actually a tip that I leave open in my investigation.”

He believes the Brian Shaffer case contains significant evidence suggesting the possibility that Shaffer started a new life elsewhere.

“I think this case probably has the biggest amount of evidence I've seen towards that. Whether you want to whether that homeless picture is him or not or this other picture, but we have all these other sightings and we also have all these other rumors. So, I think there's it's building a case that ma”

Devin O'Brien claims that he did not know where the toddler was and that he had been asleep.

“I took a 30-minute nap and I just woke up and they're nowhere.”