But you have to admit that this case is becoming more messy and cryptic by the day!
Now that is a stone cold fact.
The whole 'reward' for information is totally blown out of proportion. Self preservation normally trumps greed. Anyone who withholds information in order to get some kind of monetary reward, and is known in the community, will be told the very slippery slope they are climbing.
The money will run out someday-it always does-however being labeled a snitch will be prominently displayed for eternity.
Case in point:
When Perry March was finally brought back from Mexico after his murder indictment he was placed in protective custody inside the CJC (Criminal Justice Center), known locally as 'black woods' (woods stands for jungle-black- people can figure out for themselves) on the ninth floor. Here he fell in with a group of losers, one being Nathanael Farris. Inexperienced in such manners Perry felt the need to 'buddy up' for protection. Unlike his pals Perry was not a stupid man and realized he was going to be in some kind of prison for a very long time. He began to plan the murder of his in laws with his fellow scabs in the PU-(pussy unit). Farris (who's only job skill was beating up old women and men and stealing their money-was a hunted boy in GP-general population of black woods) decided to rat out Perry in hopes of gaining EOS time-(end of sentence) Over the next 6-8weeks he wore a recording devise and pushed Perry into some silly plan to kill his in laws after Farris was released. Here we enter a dead zone because Perry was far to intelligent not to know he was being played and went along perhaps, to climb what small ladder of notoriety there was in the PU.
Perry's perfect crime to get rid of his wife was quite well conceived with one exception which puzzled Grand Jury members and kept detectives on his trail years after he remarried, and started a new life. With no body and little, or any for that matter, evidence that a crime had been committed his mistake must have haunted him over the years. Before finally contacting police 6 days after his wife-left to get herself together-he had made angry list of things to do from his wife and concocted false leads by the bushel-including a half finished portrait (Janet March was a talented artist) that was brilliant and Lt Colombo might have said "this is smart and I give you credit for this" he made a huge error.
He took a screwdriver and opened the family computer and removed the hard drive and disposed of it in some manner then closed it up like nothing had ever happened. This puzzled investigators, and I'm sure, it-stunned-then perplexed grand jury members. From my experience you had 12 people staring at each other for hours trying to come up with a legitimate reason for this act. Had Perry simply replaced it-and reinstalled Windows-it would not look suspicious at all. All hard drives eventually fail. Over time-or due to defect-the magnetic arm will lose it's attraction and the loud click of death-that dreaded sound-will be heard. Perry stumbled badly when confronted by investigators about this fact. All he could do was to blame it on 'Ron' the painter. Who, of course, didn't even know what a hard drive was. Reading the transcripts of the interview you can just feel a heavy object sucker punch Perry who realized this loose end could cook him someday-and it did.
I have drifted again but back to the snitch label. When a deal was finally struck jailhouse bets and within the media on how long Farris would survive outside the PU averaged about 72 hours. Actually it was 78 and Farris kidnapped an old girlfriend and barricaded him self in a motel room
wanting to go back to the PU as the 'snitch' label followed him even on the outside. No one would have anything to do with him and his life was threatened within the first 24 hours.
I point this out because in a small community withholding information from a suffering family to try to receive some kind of reward brings with it the snitch label that will never-ever-go away. Regardless of how careful someone is this information will get into the public sphere.
It is one thing to 'sell' a tip that brings down a wanted fugitive-however ratting someone you know in a case that has devastated a family that you also know leaves you like the idiot Farris. Not only did he lose his freedom in society-he lost it in prison as well.
The story of Farris capture in the archive of News2 is incorrect as to the date. It's been pointed out however they have never changed it as it matters little.
Finally, the whole confidential informant and the cell phone video, looks very much like a ruse by the TBI to drive a wedge between jailed defendants, and not a very clever one at that.
The excellent timeline, along with some brilliant deduction and incite, done by Mr. Noatak seems to confuse me on just when-and just who-proposed that the person in the video-that never existed in my opinion-'looked' like the victim but was not. I went through it on three occasions and can't seem to find a date-or time-for this correction about the identity of the person on the video in which neither existed.
Perhaps, it's brainfade but I can't seem to put this in order.
