Everything that happened to Holly, an innocent victim, kidnapped and taken by force from her own home by a depraved criminal with collusion by a group of men who went along with it (with long criminal records -- ZA's is 8 pages long (
http://ftpcontent4.worldnow.com/wmctv/Zachary%20Adams%20CH.pdf) and charges include domestic assault and aggravated assault, etc.) working in concert to sexually abuse and kill her, is absurdly awful, heinous, etc. I think some version of a "three strikes and you're out" type of law should be developed for people who are serial criminals to be watched more closely and with more leeway by LE.
The circumstances of multiple citizens living in a community with a criminal record, purportedly operating as a "team" to commit crimes and intimidate people so they wouldn't call them out (JMO, rumor from a previous post that referred to ZA and his cohorts as the "A-Team" or "A-Train", and reading articles online where he supposedly threatened his own brother would be killed if he talked (
http://www.wkrn.com/story/25132232/tbi-files-new-charge-against-zachary-adams)) stands out to me as needing some new laws to protect people and investigate local gangs or perpetrators of serial crime and take them in for questioning if they have so many offenses and there is enough evidence that their intent is to commit crimes as a group, and to somehow keep them under surveillance and be proactive in preventing them from freely committing crimes like this and terrorizing people.
IMO, what happened to poor Holly is that there was a group of men lead by ZA, etc., who in this given community felt they could get away with and purportedly pre-conceived, planned, plotted, and carried out kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder of a local woman in broad daylight, and
they smugly hid what they did for years, and may have even moved her remains around during that time to avoid LE's discovery, etc.
It's all too heinous and horrible to imagine, especially for Holly's loved ones, but man, when I see ZA's rap sheet is 8 pages long and he is rumored to be in a gang that seems to embrace that lifestyle in that small community, I think people like that should be watched and prevented from willfully or randomly attacking innocent people in their community. I'm thinking something like a "Holly's Law" where people living in a community with so many arrests and crimes on their record should be watched by local LE, i.e., quite doggedly in anticipation of further crimes, and legally LE could follow and investigate these serial criminals and their movements in anticipation of preventing further crimes if they have committed more than "x".
Don't know what the bar would be (3 convictions related to sexual or domestic or other types of violence, gang, and/or drug activity?), and I'm sure it would be very complicated and fought by civil/criminal/human rights lawyers, etc. But it seems incredibly wrong and tragic that such bad actors with numerous convictions and evil intent/malice aforethought as a group, no less, should be able to wreak such havoc doing such unspeakable violence to an innocent, and to get away with it for years without anyone in LE having been given the opportunity to look at them and their activities because they can only work on each individual aspect of charges against them, but collectively can not seem to justify investigating them as a menace to society or a broad threat to local people.
I know this sounds like someone advocating taking away American people's rights under the law, and I don't think of myself as that kind of person, but when it comes to harm of innocents, in some cases (usually hindsight, unfortunately), I wish there was room for a bit of 'Marshall law' under which LE could ferret out reckless criminals and keep a hairy eyeball on them and could investigate/put pressure on them as a kind of warning based on their record. Just venting, MOO...
and what is left behind and for how long in regards to hair/nails?
