I don't know... he could have just convinced his buddies that the girls were lying or this would ruin his career when he was so close to retirement, etc. I've seen similar stuff happen, but it's sad when one of the boys or someone in a position of status or authority is shielded like this. Maybe they didn't want a black mark on the fire department or city officials. Maybe there is more, his conviction and his wife's, could have drug in someone else or maybe Shoemake knew stuff about others?
I don't know, but they killed two birds with one stone as he got out of all charges and it made it look like they had identified Lisa's killers they just couldn't peg them. People should be seriously concerned with Shoemake and his wife getting out this.
You are right about the data program!!! Maybe an excel sheet? You can share such thing on Google docs so others can work on the same document.