Mariposa
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Also they did not interview CA because I’m sure CA would not talk to them.I'm usually hard on the cops, but the police did a magnificent job on this case, regardless of the verdict. They did not interview Charlie because they fully understood that doing so would make him completely change his behaviour and take extra precautions. Instead they let him believe he wasnt even a suspect. No calls, no interviews. Nothing. For almost 2 years. And he got comfortable. In fact, they interviewed nobody with the exception of Rivera and only because he was already in federal custody serving out a 12 year sentence and staring a life in jail or the death penalty. Rivera was not out in the free world to talk freely with any other co-conspirators.
If you look at the bump strategy...to plant a few breadcrumbs with the completely irrational and insane Donna Adelson, the cops knew from how she was plotting the divorce and controlling Rob Adelson's previous marriage/life that she would go nuts and set off a chain reaction where all the real players would start talking.
They could have gone to the mostly low IQ Garcia (who is the only one with enough sense to not want to talk on phones). They could have gone to Magbanua, who is a mother of 2 kids...one with special needs...a prime candidate to just flip and turn everyone in. They could have gone to Charlie....but he's always suspected that the FBI or IRS were following him and he would have lawyered up immediately. Go to anyone but Donna Adelson, and everyone is throwing out their phones, and the wiretap is dead. But they went to Donna. And that's Charlie's weakness....his mom/sister's mental health. And it worked as well as anyone could possibly imagine, for a family and plot as cunning as this one. If there is anyone who thinks they can outwit the dumbass cops, its Charlie Adelson. But not from a direct police interview...it had to be an extortion scheme, where he was just paranoid enough to not know who was behind it and his crazy mother was just crazy enough to be stuck crapping herself to sleep every night until Charlie could get to the bottom of it.
Can’t remember what he said in this trial, but in the last trial, detective Isom testified that he approached DA and HA immediately after Dan Markel’s memorial service in Tallahassee (a memorial service CA did not deign to attend) and indicated he would like to speak to them. They put him off by saying ok we will call you or something — but they didn’t. And we all know that once WA got out of the TPD station the night of the murder, she never cooperated further— she basically hung up on Isom when he called her on the phone after the memorial as she zoomed away to her new life in south Florida.
I think the fact that the Adelson crew expressed zero, zilch, and nada interest in the murder investigation, which they were not implicated in for almost 2 years, was a big big tell. Even when WA claimed to be so so terrified she. Iuksnt eat, go outdoors, let her kids keep their last name etc.
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