GrainneDhu
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Well here goes MOO on LE at this given time...:furious:
I don't think they are any closer to an arrest than they were the day they went missing.
This is the first case I've ever followed on WebSleuths - simply because it's so close to home for me and I've learned so much already!
I will say though...that when they found the bikes and no girls a day or so later I had a horrible feeling this wouldn't be solved. I had said as much way back...local LE simply isn't prepared for things like this. "It just doesn't happen around here" is what we hear all too often in our small Iowa towns.
I have watched this unfold and sadly my confidence in LE is about zilch at this point. I followed the Evelyn Miller case via media only and that investigation infuriated me too. They knew all along who killed her and said as much but didn't make an arrest until her killer slipped up while running his mouth. Strike 2 in my book.
LE counts on people talking entirely too much. Maybe I watch too much CSI and expect more from our LE than is truly capable of accomplishing but I don't WANT to count on idiots running their mouths to "seal a deal" I want LE to do what they are paid to do...keep my community safe from people who abduct and kill children in broad daylight. And right now, I don't feel my kids are safe.:moo:
I actually thought LE did a good job in the Evelyn Miller case.
For one thing, they arrested him on other charges pretty quickly, so it's not like he was walking the streets free.
For another, in a crime where both victim and perpetrator were living in the same household and sharing the same vehicles, a lot of the forensic evidence instantly becomes worthless. If she had fibres on her body from his car, so what? He was known to have given her rides. If he had her hair on his clothing, again, so what? He lived with her and they had ample innocent opportunity for that type of transfer to occur.
Evelyn did not have any of Frederickson's DNA on her body in places that would be due to sexual assault. So if she had his DNA on her shoulder, that's another so what? When you live with a kid, you can innocently touch them on the shoulder.
Not that they found blood but even small amounts of blood can be innocently explained (a scratch, a nosebleed, etc).
What LE did correctly was in making sure that everyone knew the chief suspect was Frederickson and no one else. They got him off the street as quickly as they could, considering they had no worthwhile forensic evidence indicating guilt. They made sure he got cellmates who were apparently relatively sympathetic to him.
And they kept as many details of the crime scene secret, so that he would have more than adequate chances to blow his alibi by disclosing things he could only know for one reason.