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When time is of the essence, as it would have been here, LE usually radios in license plates of vehicles leaving a crime scene. Or they pull footage from the cruiser video which would show any vehicles they passed on their way to the call. I don't know if the former happened or if they even have...

As Rocky said, the defense does not have to provide evidence, they just need to create doubt in the prosecution's theory of the case. This attorney has already hinted that he will attack ACO's consent to provide DNA by claiming ACO didn't understand what he was agreeing to do. If the DNA is not...

Records take some time to come back - even with a subpoena - plus the defense attorney will fight tooth and nail to keep them from conducting a "fishing expedition."

I I wouldn't discount entirely because of the car discrepancy. The Escape is quite small for an SUV (especially in comparison to the huge SUVs and trucks everyone seems to drive in NE). Under pressure someone who isn't familiar with cars or who drives a Suburban could confuse it with a smaller...

I believe your frustration is misplaced. As pointed out by Madeline74, the description was not made public until late Feb. We now know that the witness described the suspect as "having tan skin" and "might be Hispanic." The witness also identified the dark SUV as being a Ford Escape. Although...

I was hoping someone familiar with MA law would explain the decision to hold off on the murder charge. My guess is that there is some quirk in the law that applies to charges that would have been considered capital crimes before MA found the capital statute to be unconstitutional. Charging...

While I would have preferred they release more info, I imagine they are making sure they have their ducks in row before they put anything out. The DNA came back Friday, arrest was made Friday night and it is a 3 day weekend in Mass. And based on the amount of info released over the course of the...

Hmm, that entire article was a bit "odd." Wish he had spent a little more time on the dog walkers story and left out some of the other stuff. What time was Ms. Holmes on BSR? I wouldn't be at all surprised if the dog picked up on something. After the arrest was announced, I recalled that a...

Good points. I was quite shocked to learn anyone had laid eyes on the suspect. I thought they had just seen the SUV. Given that the trooper was able to make the connection between a random Hispanic male operating a dark SUV in Worcester and the suspect in this case, I wonder if there is...

Along those lines, I wonder why Early waited so long to release the witness description of the suspect? Even a vague description may have jogged a memory in a local (Oh, yeah, what about the guy who was with the crew that replaced my roof? Or my landscaper uses a guy that kind of looks like...

<modsnip> As I mentioned early on in this thread, I was deeply affected by this crime. I do not see myself as an amateur sleuth, I am just a person trying to process an evil I will never understand. I appreciate all of the many posters who shared their thoughts along the way. It made me feel...

I saw that broadcast Sat night and had the opposite reaction at the time: I thought he seemed really jazzed and happy to get some good spring skiing in. He has seemed stressed on the 6:00 news lately so it was nice to see him relaxed and happy. As for the late check-out, I think he was a guest...

Agreed! His employer ( the NBC affiliate in Portland) originally said they had no comment because it was a :"personal matter." To me, this made it sound like they had been in contact with him and he was okay. They later came out and said they were cooperating with the police and they had not...

I have been thinking along the same lines - that the SUV connection is more attenuated than "a dark SUV was parked on BSR during the timeframe of the murder." Perhaps Mom recalled an earlier incident involving a dark SUV, or a dark SUV was caught on a couple of video cameras a day or two...

Since 9/11 and certainly in the past couple of years, the FBI has started playing much more nicely with local LE - mostly because they are so spread so thin that they need local help. The result is a whole lot of task forces standing up in cities that may not have previously rated this type of...

I think this is a good assumption. I would also throw out the possibility that she did an out and back that day - making it only as far as the top of BSR before turning back. This would put her on the cart path side of BSR which would make an abduction from BSR at that specific location more...

While I can certainly understand why many are drawing the “local” suspect conclusion, I want to throw out another scenario. Looking at the overhead images of the area, I was surprised to see the multi-unit structure near the corner of Boylston Rd and Rt 31 – it is approx 1/4 mile from the...

I have also been catching up. The vehicle information caught me by surprise as I could never fit a vehicle into the timeline as we know it. As others have said, a vehicle sitting on the road for what had to have been at least a half hour would have either prompted a call to police or at least...

Steleheart - Post 489 seems to indicate the moderator has no problem with ThinkHard's post regarding requests for DNA.