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Originally Posted by Routine Builder
If I was to speculate about where a rift came from, it might have been the focus on the band rather than the family in the first years following Richey's disappearance. Quite a few raw things were said by both James and Nick that they would probably have not made public today. The family were ignored back then and it's only since around the mid 2000s did Rachel step up to claim his cause.
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Yes, this. The family were ignored. But the band had to tread a very fine line. They couldn't, and wouldn't, deign to speak for the family, so they had to talk about Richey all the time without dragging his family into it or appearing to take "ownership" of him from his family. All they could really do was try to emphasise that the family were suffering a great deal more than them. The coverage has been undeniably skewed.
But it seemed like the band were trying to reclaim Richey from that hardcore group of fans who idolised him. In turn, Rachel's trying to reclaim Richey from that whole "rock star" image. It's difficult to explain.