(It was unintentional to reply to this. Sorry.)
Aug.27,2023
45 days after RH's arrest and Asa and
VH & CS had yet to be interviewed.
Why is that?
Are we to gather that AE/family has never been interviewed 11 months later?
“She knew nothing about any of this,” Mr. Macedonio said in a phone interview. “If it happened, he was leading a complete double life.”
Mr. Macedonio said that investigators had never interviewed Ms. Ellerup or the couple’s children and that there was no indication they would be charged.
“She hasn’t even begun to process what he’s being charged with,” Mr. Macedonio said. “She’s still putting her own life back together.”
After Rex Heuermann was charged in a notorious string of murders, neighbors assumed his wife and children would vanish. They haven’t.
www.nytimes.com
It is a lot to insist that AE or children be interviewed.
LE has to arrest them, have a court proceeding to which they can be subpoenaed and put under oath, or that kind of thing. There has to be a very good reason. And no matter what nobody can be compelled to speak without an attorney, or such that it would incriminate oneself.
Any conversation is voluntary. It appears to me there have been some voluntary interactions; for instance Asa provided her DNA.
But for some reason, Macedonio emphasized from day one that Asa didn't have anything to add, and claimed LE never asked for her to speak to them. That LE never asked for her observations is a strained claim, to put it mildly.
I suppose she could have been called to the grand jury; we wouldn't know at this point. But I highly doubt it because it would have tipped off her husband. So she has probably never been subpoenaed as a witness.
My intuition says that what really happened is Macedonio told Asa not to talk voluntarily. He told he will go along for any interview they insist upon, if in fact LE can insist. And she has never been compelled to talk in any way that we could learn.
If I were LE I wouldn't announce she isn't speaking to me if all of the evasions are legal. I'd say exactly what is being said: she is cooperating fully. If she is not subpoenaed, she doesn't have to speak. Thus, she is cooperating.In addition, if I were LE and she was afraid of getting "caught" talking, I'd make sure she doesn't get caught. So there is a legit reason to say nothing about what Asa says.
But the signs are, Asa is saying and cooperating as little as possible.
I have to find a quote. I recall Asa said something to the press to the effect that she had to keep her mouth shut per her attorney or something like that.
MOO