I don’t think any serious person who followed this discussion and was exposed to any of the evidence thought there was a chance that he would. The mental gymnastics on this board (there was a thread where a huge portion of the posters hallucinated a situation where they convinced themselves that she was going to be 17 and he was going to be 20… and that HE was going to be found to be the victim in all this?!?) could probably be used as compelling primary source material for anyone who was interesting in writing a thesis on the way misinformation and mass delusions propagate.
I don’t think any serious person who followed this discussion and was exposed to any of the evidence thought there was a chance that he would. The mental gymnastics on this board (there was a thread where a huge portion of the posters hallucinated a situation where they convinced themselves that she was going to be 17 and he was going to be 20… and that HE was going to be found to be the victim in all this?!?) could probably be used as compelling primary source material for anyone who was interesting in writing a thesis on the way misinformation and mass delusions propagate.