Park administrators and FBI officials were also on hand to answer questions. Reporters asked them to concede that they had deliberately withheld information about the murders in the days immediately after they found the campsite. The park employees grew defensive. Assistant superintendent Stiles kept to his original story, which was that investigators had initially been certain they were dealing with a suicide. The Washington Blade reported on the subsequent exchange: “One [reporter] asked Stiles incredulously, ‘You weren’t sure it was a homicide . . . with their wrists bound?’ ‘And their
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