Looking at past cases, whenever the police suspected a person of murder but that person waswaiting trial on other charges, haven't the police typically waited for the outcome before arresting that person
on a murder charge? Is that proper procedure? This is about past cases, not talking about any present
Cases or anyone in particular. moo
I believe she is doing well and the surgery was successful.
Just fyi, she is fairly active on Facebook and if anyone friends her, she will probably accept. She popped up on my suggested friends list and when I saw my daughter and some of her friends were already friends with her... well then!! Shes very inspirational. She recently posted a couple of videos of Elizabeth. I have not met her personally but I'm guessing that will change this summer. She is organizing (or helping) an event to clean up Meyer's lake.
This case caught my attention for two reasons--the fact that 2 girls were taken at the same time and a first name I'd never heard before, Lyric. What a beautiful name for a beautiful child.
It sickens me that somewhere, someone is living their life knowing what they did to these sweet children.
Squeeze..this post is not intended to offend you. However, I find it strange/odd that heather will add everyone who sends her a friend request. She does seems like a very kind and inspirational person. I guess while reading your post my "mommy" protective mode kicked in & I couldn't help thinking why would you allow public access to your family after a something like this. They have three other children to protect. No one has been charged with abducting & murdering Elizabeth. How can they be certain that the person responsible is not still "watching" their family. I am glad to hear that she is still active in the community. I'm also not passing judgement as I never want to walk in her shoes. I am just very suprised by your post.
Just another possibility...in keeping with her 'openness', she might have wanted to keep all possible communication lines open in case a perp/s wished to contact her.
She has kept a dignified vigil all these months, an agonizing task at best. She has made her forgiveness clear. She has likely hoped and prayed that someone out there would feel forgiven enough to confess.
I hope her prayers are answered.
This is my first case, so I know absolutely NO statistics so if anyone has any stats I'd love to know the answers to these questions - I know that there are so many variables it may not be feasible, I am just curious if there happens to be stats out there:
What is the average # of days before a murder is committed and an arrest?
Does the length of time increase or decrease due to random vs. family involvement?
What % of crimes believed to be committed by non-familial abductors go cold?
Are more murder cases solved or unsolved in Iowa?
SBM
I don't have the absolute stats but I know they are out there. I do have a grasp on the general trends, so take this for whatever it is worth.
The average number of days between a murder and an arrest overall is probably somewhere around 1-2 weeks. That includes all the people who kill someone they live with and call 911 themselves to confess (happens more often than you'd think) and all the cases that are never solved.
Killings committed by someone who is a stranger to the victim take longer to solve. A lot of police work is painstakingly tracing out all the relationships and social connections of the victim; if the killer doesn't have any social connection to the victim, it makes solving the crime very difficult.
Overall, about 25% of all murders go officially unsolved. In some percentage of those so-called unsolved cases the LE heading the case have a strong suspicion as to who committed it but cannot get enough evidence to bring charges.
More murder cases in Iowa are solved; Iowa does not have an unusually low solve rate or an unusually high unsolved rate. As in so many other things, Iowa is around the middle.
Despite dramatic improvements in DNA analysis and forensic science, police fail to make an arrest in more than one-third of all homicides. National clearance rates for murder and manslaughter have fallen from about 90 percent in the 1960s to below 65 percent in recent years.
I wonder how many of the murderers are responsible for several seemingly unrelated cases.I think it's higher than that....This article says:
http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2010/may/24/unsolved-homicides/
I totally agree. I can see FBI asking her to do that.
In the very beginning of the investigation, LE was looking thru trash for the girls, yet they said they believed they were still alive?