Why Hailey would be caught & Jeffs pedophilia dismissed
First off, my thought throughout the movie was "If she called the police or if he turned himself in my first thoughts as a cop would be SET-UP."
He'll have rope burns around his ankles, wrists and neck. He'll have the medication she gave him in his system. His clothes are dirty, wet, and potentially covered in blood- and his crotch area has a ghetto trim job. (The surgery was fake, but he winces when she shaves him- probably cutting him) unless she washed and dried his clothes he'd have the fake blood on his underwear and pants too.
His "suicide note" states he tried to shoot himself, either there's no gun (where did it go?) or there's 2 missing bullets...why was he shooting it off outside? He "failed to shoot himself" on the roof, went inside, wrote it, went onto the roof and hung himself?
SO...at this point they'll conclude it's a homicide. Fishy as *beep* and there was obviously a struggle. They'll ask around and his neighbor who came by will explain that he had his niece over- who doesn't exist. She had a cut on her forehead, was sweaty, stammering, zoned out, and was on the roof prior to him dying- coincidentally where he hung himself, looking for an imaginary leak. He doesn't have food poisoning or any illness, even more suspicious, obviously tying her to his murder.
They'll post his picture and a sketch of Hailey on the news; the people who saw them at the diner will come forward and they'll have video/pictures of Hailey; they'll post that on a news and she'll eventually be found.
Upon her investigation she's *beep* for obvious reasons; but the be all end all will be the phone conversation she has with her friend that would be traced to within the house, placing her at the murder, linking her with his torture and coerced suicide. There's no explaining how he was tied up, why she was there, where she went, or anything else. I doubt she could wipe all her prints off, but if they're gone how is that possible? She was clearly inside the house- they'll conclude she wiped everything down, that's really suspicious.
Jeffs child porn collection neatly displayed will seem like an obvious blackmail tactic and so may his search results; not that they'd be publicized anyways. His safe was broken into, he was tied up and some weird *beep* went down, and suddenly there's blackmail worthy stuff in his house and he killed himself. Hmmm, wonder why he did that now?
She'll either take the punishment for murder and get *beep* by the judicial system or mention Aaron in defense of killing pedophiles- indicting herself in another murder to paint him as a pedophile. Both will see like blackmail and it probably won't work, once again not like they'd publicize "girl kills pedophile x and y", their pedophilia would go undiscovered and wrote off as blackmail and she'll have ruined her life, being institutionalized and dealing with constant check-ups by law enforcement and psychiatrists.
My first go through of this movie made me think it was a brilliant piece of cinematography but my second viewing made me really focus on how they painted her conducting the perfect crime and getting away with it while she'd most definitely be caught.