I watched it today. Wade isn't the sharpest tool in the box to be fair. I think he was probably a bit scared of her. He knew she was a fantasist and he couldn't face it or didnt know what to do i think.
I also think its shocking how many opportunities that passed where she could have been exposed yet everyone danced around it. Even that hospital facility who said they locked their maternity unit down as they thought she might steal a baby.
Why didn't they raise a concern with police about her? At the very least they could have been watching her and known she was hanging about with a girl who was approx at the same gestation in pregnancy.
She claimed to have given birth at the side of the road yet not a hint of a post birth bump or mess on her pyjamas. The state trooper didnt even attempt to resuscitate the baby, he said he couldnt, it needed an EMT. Holy tit, how poor a response was that?
I believe there is a really good youtube video about it all in much more detail. There were a lot of shocking details not in the Netflix programme. I don't mean that in a ghoulish way.
The poor mother really suffered and her family were so graceful.