Goldy - You can stop talking or not. What you are encountering here is just a preveiw of how your story will be recieved. People will question you. And this is the good side of living in the US. People are free to question you - just as you (and others) are free to question our own government. If this were Nazi territory, you wouldn’t have gotten this far!
I challange you to ask yourself a hard question right now. If, by lying, you could put away the likes of Jeffery Dalmer (sp?) or the Son of Sam - would you do it? Or would you let them keep on killing? There were 3 young women, who disappeared off the face of the earth, years before Helen disappeared. They were young, 18, 19, 20 somethings. They never had the chance to have children, who would grow up and come to their defence.
You asked us to think about all this from a different perspective. I issue the same challenge to you. Do you think a good person could lie, even sacrifice the reputation of a fellow law enforcement officer, to stop the disappearances of young women and old ladies who donate money to animal welfare groups? And, by the way, kill horses for money?
We are all human, so I seriously doubt that there is such a thing as perfect justice where imperfect humans are involved.
I just want you to consider the possibility that the Feds have more info on all this than we can dig up. And may, at this point in time, be able to help you clear your father’s name without unraveling “everything”. Maybe there are worse things.
I think you need to ask yourself what your end-game is in all this. Do you just want to clear your father’s name? Or do you want retrobution for those who ruined it? Are you sure you know who your enemies really are?
It seems to me that it is, in fact, important for you know find out as much as you can about what was happening before Helen disappeared. In this case, the enemy of your enemy may very well NOT be your (or your father’s) friend. He would not have been the first or last taken in by seemingly nice horse people. It still happens all the time.
BTW - you know darn well that the drinking (even just a little too much) isn’t going to help or solve anything. You seem like a nice guy in a bad spot, who loves his dad. Maybe growing up during the Watergate scandels in DC has made me a bit, oh, let’s call it jaded. Not all the bad people get caught and convicted, and sometimes good people pay for other’s sins. If your dad is half the man you think he is, all he wants is for you and your family to have a good life. And if scarificing his reputation would ensure that, he would probably do it happily.
What, for you and your father, is the best possible outcome at this point?
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Nothing kills fun faster than that (except maybe Joe). 
