:websleuther: O.K., my mind is working overtime today, which is why I got a weird idea, and this is why.
Last year my husband had to go through VitalChek online to get a certified copy of his birth certificate from another state. He ordered it, and it never came. :waitasec:
The certificate was supposed to arrive within 7 days, and after a month of it not arriving and calling the state's county clerk everyday that mailed it out, we finally found out the Waterloo Post Office had sent it to the address on the label ... which turned out to be a misprint on the label from the county clerk of the state it was sent out of.
It was an address on our street that didn't even exist! Where did the mailman deliver it to if the number doesn't exist? The county clerk records showed it never was sent back to the return address. That meant ANYONE had the worst thing for us that a criminal could get his hands on to steal.... my husbands identity. We called the police, and they they told us it must have been delivered to a house on our street, and since the post office wasn't going to do anything, they asked for me to go door to door and ask if anybody got it. I did, and all my neighbors said no. It ended there. The Waterloo Police Department didn't do anything, the county clerk from the state that sent it out didn't do anything, the Waterloo Post Office wasn't going to do anything and any criminal had open game to a copy of my husbands BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!! :what:
I was at the end of my rope. My husband was irate to say the least. :furious: I called the Department of Homeland Security to help solve this. Guess what? The same day I called them, they knocked on my door and handed me the unopened copy of my husbands birth certificate. It was 2 doors down, at the same house I had went back to 2 times to double check, and I told the Homeland Security Officer the woman at that house had told me twice she didn't have it!! The officer told me her husband had it, but had forgotten to tell her about it as he had been out of town and laid it on a table in their house. He just got back yesterday and she forgot to mention it to him. :waitasec: Weird, but hey it worked!
Now before you all think I'm bonkers, look at this link, under
Solving A Murder.
http://israel21c.org/technology/mindcite-connects-the-dots-to-solve-crime-2/
(Mindcite expands the investigation scope and capacity of Homeland Security)
Maybe that is what it takes to get this solved. All police, FBI and other departments don't always work together, and maybe they could help but haven't been authorized or asked to help on this case. Maybe this is over our heads? Maybe it's some drug ring cartel case to Mexico or some other country, or who knows where that went bad? We don't know. Anyway.. what do you all think?