How Channel 4 thought this was worth 1hr 20 mins is a mystery. There was no new information, nothing was explained and the only interesting part about the case was the social media frenzy, not the case itself. There was no analysis of the evidence and it was all so badly presented, it was not possible for someone to come to a measured and reasonable conclusion. Perhaps that was not the point. Who made this? A bunch of first year media studies students with no experience, following a YouTube video on how to make a video.
There was no comment at all regarding the "I am not going to make it" text. To me, it sounded like Jay was telling his mate he wasn't going to make their lunchtime planned meet up, not that he wasn't going to make it on planet earth. Would a 19 year old kid describe his imminent death as "not making it"? If he was lost, dehydrated and thought he was close to death with some battery remaining, he would have still asked for help. IMO, of course.
I thought the dad and brother came across as genuine. If you didn't know the parents were separated before the programme, you wouldn't know afterwards (unless I missed that bit)?
The mortuary scenes were a bit unnecessary but we only saw a specimen jar waved about, not slices of human liver. The body bag wasn't the shape of an intact body (IMO). Of course the pathologist could not tell if Jay fell or was pushed. Science can only reveal so much. In the absence of evidence his upper arms where grabbed or signs of a scuffle at the top (both of which would be long gone by the time he was found), I am not sure what else could give a clear indication of a second party at the scene after all that time.
Keeping the items that your son had decayed in, in a box in your garage was odd. I dare say someone gave them a bit of a clean up before they were handed over. The dad seemed annoyed that he wasn't allowed to bury Jay in the items; that idea seemed to have been blocked, presumably by the mother.
I cannot make up my mind about the mother. Her comments along the lines of "kids will be kids" (I am paraphrasing) when told of the toxicology results showing c etc. did not seem as though she was shocked. That portion played out as a reconstruction for the camera so I am not sure if her real reaction was thus.
Really it was a pointless time filler of a programme that added nothing to the story.
RIP Jay - poor kid.