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"Yet again," indeed. I've noticed in nearly every instance of media coverage of this case, that the landfill search cost and personnel involvement is cited even before details of what happened! It IS wrong. As I wrote in another post, either here or on the Kelsey Felker thread, neither LE, nor the media, nor the public, seems to have learned anything from the Pickton horror out west. And to all "bad dates" out there, the message seems to be, by all means discard your victim and any other evidence at a landfill site, because now you have ready information about the scale and scope of how your crime will be covered up - literally. JP can pretty much say whatever he wants about what happened, and since Catherine Todd allegedly was providing sexual services to him, well... it was her risk, right? WRONG. Wrong, wrong, and wrong.
I have done online searches to find references to the cost of the search for Tim Bosma, and of the ensuing homicide investigation - to no avail. Way more resources have been brought into that one, from (at a minimum) four different branches of LE - but nary a single, "Three exhaustive searches of Dellen Millard's farm have cost $_______ and # people from the OPP, HPS, Toronto, and WRPS put in # hours without any results," has turned up in the media. Or if it has, it's been a hard-to-find afterthought after a recap of the case and the people affected.
That is in no way to understate the terrible, awful nightmare of what the Bosma family and Ancaster area have endured, or to diminish the murder of Tim Bosma himself. For that matter, the murder of Audrey Gleave, in the same area, is becoming to all appearances a cold case, but we haven't had associated costs of the investigation trotted out by way of a subtle judgement of the life she is perceived to have led.
GT, I agree:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitch...body-may-have-looked-in-wrong-place-1.1862309
Note the immediate reference to the cost here, at the CBC account. And the confirmation that LE were aware they were looking in the wrong place before they called off the search!
The collective shrug is deplorable. And the message unambiguous to all women who live outside of what society deems acceptable.
Yikes.