When Jack starts to insist at the end that Harvey is the killer, he has already bothered the police with so many leads that they don't take him seriously.

The movie does have Harvey put on a show of being a nice, normal (if withdrawn) guy, when the police come to question him.If i were the cops i'd be more suspicious of the blankness of the house then the doll houses. To an extent a grown man 'playing' with dolls may be considered 'creepy' But i don't really see someone making them or having them (or any other mock architecture toys) around isn't really something i'd even be suspicious of someone for.(Harvey in the book is also very much a fan of architecture as well) And just speaking it would be a very good career for people also interested in architecture and design. In fact it sounds like a pretty interesting career. This troper, as a young male in the current age doesn't see how dollhouses are supposed to be creepy in that affect.Unassuming, white, middle-aged man, respectable, polite - what's there to suspect? Similar time period of killing he, too, looked the part of a Serial Killer, yet when the police came to his apartment after his victim ran away, they suspected nothing. The sob story along with Jack's Hot-Blooded determination, and correctly asserting to the police that Harvey IS in fact the killer repeatedly without visible evidence, help Harvey out too. The dollhouses even enforce his pitiful masquerade because 'his wife' loved them. This troper hasn't seen The Movie, but the novel explains well how Harvey deflected the police's suspicion: he acts as pathetic as possible complete with a fake dead wife story, purposely looking like The Woobie in front of the cops.Back then, people didn't think that this sort of thing could happen.' Remember, the movie takes place during 'a time when missing children's faces didn't appear on milk cartons, or be a prominent feature on the evening news.

The lovely bones killer