IDK the answer to your question.
Not trying to make excuses for JSO, but I can see a computer turned in by a roommate going on the back burner for a while. Not sure the legalities of JSO looking at it - especially since they may have thought the roommate was mad for other reasons such as unpaid rent & other common roomie complaints.
Just based on MOPE - JSO used to have terrible internal communications, esp re:evidence room. [Won't bore you w/details, but evidence for a violent crime was sitting in their evidence room for 2 weeks. I had to point it out to them AND connect the dots when I arrived to retrieved the evidence from there. Yeah, I wuz very pizzed.]
Someone spotted the guy on the video last night on another site and I was on the fence about him. Now someone here has noticed him so I'm beginning to truly wonder if it is him now. Does anyone know how tall Dienna's boyfriend is? As in is he extremely tall. Also the guy with in the video looks larger than 240 lbs if he's 6'3"? JMO
What about the guy in the vigil portion of video (1:29-) wearing a brown jacket & blue shirt who seems to be looking around nervously?
eek i think i found his sisters myspace... lol
ETA: I followed the facebook info to find the name and then went to myspace... if its her, her job is creepy ...
Is this Harrell standing with Diena Thompson's family in the background? At the 3:36 mark, white t-shirt.
http://us.cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2009/10/22/sot.girl.dead.mother.wjxt
Thanks for the info. I can see the miscommunications, etc. It happens everywhere, I'm sure. But I would think that child *advertiser censored* would get a free ticket to the front of the line. Guess I'm wrong! IMO, if someone is watching child *advertiser censored*, they are willing and able to do a LOT worse.
All of these degenerates start with *advertiser censored*. I'm for freedom of speech, but not at this price.
I don't believe kiddie *advertiser censored* is freedom of speech - I believe it is freedom to indulge your perversions until you get to the point of acting them out. Once you act them out, you have destroyed a life, either mentally or physically.
If they can BAN a book on how to be a killer, surely there wouldn't be a problem BANNING kiddie *advertiser censored* - UNLESS there are a lot of pedophiles in high places here and in other countries. Seems to me the more power people, especially men obtain, the more jaded they become until nothing but the worst perversions can satisfy them sexually. Time for a change, I think.
My opinion only
He was described as "reclusive" by his former roommates. It doesn't seem a reclusive type would be out in crowds and seeking attention.
Child *advertiser censored* is banned.
Diena says she wants to know every detail. Also wants the death penalty.
2 of Diena's fears -
- It was someone who had the opportunity to "work" Somer.
- It was someone nearby.
Both of her fears may be true w/this suspect.
---GMA @ 7:21 a.m. EDST
It's not as easy as you would think, at least not in this case. The computer was not in the POI's possession at the time it was turned over to investigators. A lot of investigation and forensics would have to take place to assure who put that *advertiser censored* on there (someone could simply plant child *advertiser censored* on a computer and say so-and-so put it there --- that's simply not enough evidence to arrest someone and have charges stick). Anyone who had access to that computer was suspect to having put it on there. Not only did they have to examine the hard drive, they had to get warrants for information from internet providers to see when the computer was logged into the internet. Warrants would have to be sent out to specific websites to see when that IP address visited those sites. If he was receiving these pictures from someone else via email, they would have to trace that email and IP and try to connect to the person distributing it (with possible arrests in a child *advertiser censored* ring).
At the time this computer was taken into custody, I'm sure they were more concerned with who was distributing it than they were with who was receiving it and it probably became a bigger part of their investigation into the computer.
In November investigators gave out a profile of the person that could be involved in Somer's disappearance. I think they were looking at the current POI at this time and trying to freak him out. One of the things they said is that the person might move....if they were playing reverse psychology with this guy, they didn't figure he would move right away after hearing that because he wouldn't want to make himself look suspect. I believe when investigators went quiet and the media coverage started tapering off, the POI got nervous because he didn't know what was going on in the case and he fled to Mississippi.
In the meantime, officials knew where he was and they were just playing a waiting game to get enough evidence back to make the connection. It does take some time to put together a solid case and we know they don't want to mess this investigation up.
I hope this is okay to post.
Mom's employer comments on FB:
Jarred' mom was my personal assistant for over two years. just after the little girl was killed they moved to Callahan very fast. We all would talk about the little girl and how terrible it was...I just can't believe this!!
Interesting... I wonder if the mom and step-dad covered up for him and sent him to MS.
In the meantime, officials knew where he was and they were just playing a waiting game to get enough evidence back to make the connection. It does take some time to put together a solid case and we know they don't want to mess this investigation up.
sbm
I get the waiting game but if they truly believed he possibly was the POI in Somer's case they were putting other young children at RISK while building their case..They knew his location but that would not prevent it from happening again cos I seriously doubt he was being watched 24/7 all these months..There must be a better/safer way to do their job. KWIM?
Thank you for this link, lurkeyloo.Interesting info in this article on the roomate. According to the article the roommate was a young woman.
http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/...ompson_slaying_to_appear_in_mississippi_court