I'm pretty certain they know way more than we do, but I think the main problem here is that the coins are very likely distributed amongst hundreds of thousands of other addresses, likely belonging to innocent people, so from there it's not really worth the time to dig into it any further.
Back then it was less of a problem to mix coins and have them be sent to exchanges left and right, and we shouldn't forget the BTC-E connection. It may very well be that a lot of BTC-E users have withdrawn these gox coins.
That fat fuck has had plenty of time to work out his theft, and if you combine that with the relative freedom he had back then due to the lack of KYC/AML requirements, a small chunk of these coins are probably sitting in one of your or mine wallets right now.