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No Charges for the guy

His DNA doesn't match. Plus it looks as if he was with family when it happened.

posted by mikea18 on August 28, 2006 at 8:00 PM | link to this | reply

ANd then there was the old woman in Nebraska

Found in her burning farmhouse by volunteer firefighters, tied up, legs broken; eyeglasses, baseball bat and an empty bottle of accelerant on a fencepost outside, and they ruled it a suicide. No medical examiner, the duty rotated to MD's in the county and they were few and far between.

Anyway, it appears this guy in Thailand either has a leaky memory or he's lying.

(That bit about hesitating to mention anything was for the other readers...hopoe they aren't listening...).

Wyoming huh? Someone knew what they were doing, how to get the money and convince the powers that be it was important. Yes, there are coujnties and states where it is better to commit a murder than others.

posted by majroj on August 17, 2006 at 10:45 PM | link to this | reply

Maj

I'll agree with that to a point. What law enforcement can do is really mess up the scene and destroy what will back a suspect into a corner. If evidence exists that will put someone at a scene, and it gets screwed around with, there is no reason for the perp to volunteer anything. Then it becomes a catch me if you can thing.

It has been said all along that so much of this was messed up. It makes you wonder if there are states/counties that are better to be murdered in than others. That's not me being funny, btw. I've actually wondered this. Too much Dukes of Hazard maybe.

My writing group had ladies from the splinter group Sisters in Crime. Our parties were funny. The lady who ran the group would visit various ME offices on vacation. I swear, she's a very normal, well-adjusted person. I remember her taking a trip out west and telling us she had visited (I believe) Wyoming and found they had the most sophisticated labs in the US. She researched and discovered it was because murderers (outside of the crimes of passion group) tend to be a transient lot. They know where to drop bodies so they won't be found. Well, the wilds of Wyoming were good. The crime labs/ME office developed around it. I can't remember for sure if it's Wyoming---just remember it was that part of the country and a place you wouldn't automatically think of as a hot spot for murders. And it's not. It just happens to be where bodies surface.

posted by terpgirl30 on August 17, 2006 at 1:06 PM | link to this | reply

Rcky-Dennison

I gotta tell you, I feel terribly guilty about all that and what I thought. I remember it vividly at the beginning. I am a journalist. At that time I worked with law enforcement. I didn't go in thinking the family. It took me a long, long time. Even after I started thinking so much of the policework was botched, I still kept coming down on the side of the fence that said the family had to have been involved just because of location and the particulars. Some things just seemed impossible to exist without a family member having knowledge.

I can't even begin to imagine what John has to go through...again. How many times has he been up and down and up and down. I have to wonder if the finding out of the truth is even an issue at this point. He's had to deal with deflecting so much for so long. He has to be of the mind that the truth almost doesn't matter to the world, so why should it matter except really internally to him.

posted by terpgirl30 on August 17, 2006 at 1:01 PM | link to this | reply

Wait for the trial and forensics to play out.

I am really, really hesitant to tell y'all, but almost all murders are "solved" either when a witness comes forward, or the killer shoots his mouth off and someone tells the police. Forensics almost always are used to confirm, not detect and arrst, the perp. If those don't happen, they go unsolved, maybe pinned to a dead con later on. Most are solved because they are crimes of passion committed by people well known to the victims, very often family members.

The police role is largely to list, interview and watch the suspects, protect and document the forensic evidence, then wait. Almost all else is grandstanding demanded by mayors and police chiefs or citizens' councils.

Let's not forget who painted (lipsticked?) a bullseye on this little kid.

posted by majroj on August 17, 2006 at 12:32 PM | link to this | reply

Not everyone believe Patsy killed Jon Benet. Most of us in Colorado

thought she was innocent. The Boulder police royally screwed up this case. This was their first murder case in Boulder and they had no experience. May they both rest in peace!