Obstructing justice - didn't anyone else wonder?

First reports on Sunday about the Kurt Milliman shooting included such softball statements by the sheriff's department as the first deputy on the scene "secured the couple" (the Smiths) and a list of the charges that included "obstructing justice" charges against both Timothy S. and Kimberly A. (Holian) Smith and a disorderly conduct charge against Kimberly Smith.

Then it turns out that they had apparently fed a concocted story to investigators or deputies about a home invasion, including an attempt to lead them to believe that Timothy hadn't been at home at first.

To me, it seems that this subterfuge must have been known to the deputies and resulted in the obstruction charges quickly filed against the Smith.

So what is the reason the sheriff's department withheld that information from the public at first, if it did?

And the "prostitution for $40" story? Give me a break. Anybody that believes that one should go back and start Reading 101 over with "Jack and Jill went up the hill".

Where is the face of Sheriff Nygren in all this? Here we have the first murder in McHenry County in 2011, and Sheriff Nygren is nowhere to be seen. If he is out-of-town, wasn't he notified early Sunday morning? Did someone call and wake him up before dawn?

And wouldn't almost any County Sheriff return to his office and take charge? Was he out of cell phone range?

If the McHenry County Sheriff's Department held a press conference and Sheriff Nygren stood at a microphone and accepted questions, would he answer them if they came in the form of hardball questions? Who might ask those hard questions?

Bob McCoppin, reporter for http://www.chicagotribune.com/
Cal Skinner, who writes http://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/
Pete Gonigam, publisher of http://www.firstelectricnewspaper.com/
Michael Bivona, publisher of http://www.patch.com/ for Crystal Lake
Gus Philpott, author of this blog

Northwest Herald articles omit all MCSD names except that of Undersheriff Zinke, although there are frequent mentions of "investigators said", "police said", etc.

Who was the first deputy on the scene?

Just how well known (and in what ways) are Timothy and Kimberly Smith known among the law enforcement community in McHenry County?