https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/10/the-psychology-of-victim-blaming/502661/.

“When people want to believe that the world is just, and that bad things won’t happen to them, empathy can suffer.”

Here is a photo montage of Hastings circa 1977, the first composite shown to the public in the wake of Tim’s abduction (“person of interest”) and a photo of Hastings later in life, presumably from FaceBook. A reader sent it to me. I am not sure where it originated, but probably one of Helen Dagner’s websites. Check out the hair and the distinctive nose. Pretty disturbing.

Say what you will about composite drawings, but all you have to do is read polygrapher Steve Duncan’s evaluation of his interview and the polygraphs he administered to John Hastings to know this deserved more inquiry, not the “no comment (ever)” and “it will blow over” approach of the MSP. https://catherinebroad.blog/2020/09/12/does-this-sound-like-someone-who-passed-a-polygraph/.

First Greene and then the initial composite next to Hastings’ passport photo. Compare hairline/widow’s peak and lips to composite. Then a comparison with a second composite drawing, then the 1992 poly results for Hastings. You can draw your own conclusions, as law enforcement never really did.

Greene mug shot January 1977: