Hello,
I just joined this forum. I live a little south of where this took place. And this case has already gotten a bit cold. But I've been following up on the news and this thread. And there are a lot of questions going on in my mind.
- He lives in Antioch, north of Fox Lake. To get to work, his best route is 59 south. But instead of showing up to work (at 8:00AM?), he drives past the police station to check out activity on Honing Rd and deliberately making himself late to work? Where I come from, we call this an adapted form of the fraud triangle. He lives in Antioch. He's supposed to be at work on 59 and Devlin Rd. Why is he at Route 12 and Honing Rd? For him to be able to spot any suspicious activity even along route 59, he would have to go out of his way to drive there. But let's say that he takes route 12 to work in the morning. It means it will take a couple of minutes longer. But in this case, Gliniewicz fails to turn East on Grand Ave. and continues down to Honing Rd or Rollins Rd? Note that there is only one way in and out on Honing Rd using a vehicle. And how coincidental that this means he's all by himself with no partner. Any way you put it, Gliniewicz deliberately took a longer route to work to “check this out”. He could not have saw anything there to raise his suspicions that would have prompted him to make a detour in the first place.
- He gives a vague description of the suspects; no clothing, no vehicle, no plate search.
- I've heard of police being discouraged from asking for backup, but this was not the case here. The dispatcher asks him directly if he would like backup, and he refuses. When she asks him again, he says to start one up? And instead of waiting for backup, he chooses to leave his car to go after the three suspects on his own?
- At 7:55AM, he reports that the suspects are running off into the swamp. If he startes chasing them, how far will he have to run before he catches one? If I was a suspect running off into the swamp, I would start running as soon as I see his car. I would go a lot farther than 50 yards. Unless, I decide to hang back, hide, and wait for him to come close to me so that I can jump him, take his gun, and shoot him with it. This is not likely. Perhaps I'm Delta Force taking out GI Joe who happens to be an international terrorist. But if this would be all true, I would at least carry along and use my own gun.
- If there was a struggle for the weapon, and the criminal was able to get the upper hand on Gliniewicz. After shooting him with his own weapon, why would he leave it behind? If I was that person, I would take it along for further protection. I would at least find a better place to get rid of it so that I wouldn't leave behind a substantial piece of evidence.
- By 7:57AM, backup is already in the vincinity, Gliniewicz is shot and there is no sign of any suspects or a getaway car. If anything would have happened after that, they would have heard or seen it. That means that all of this would have had to happen within 2 minutes or less. This doesn't seem to leave very much time for the suspects to take out Gliniewicz and all three get away without a trace.
When you rule out the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, has to be the truth. And the truth is that Gliniewicz was not at work that day. Instead, he was somewhere else checking out a remote area, supposively putting himself in a dangerous situation all alone in a city where there are few black people and murder has not happened in over 10 years! I'm getting really sceptical here. So sceptical that I'm no longer questioning what happened and how, but why it happened. Why would Gliniewicz take his own life?
A) We know that there are significant cash benefits to families to fallen cops. We already know of a lumpsum payment of $333,604.00 to the family. And all of his dependents receive free college tuition, up to 120 credits until they are age 25. I believe his oldest son is 25. And his funeral is free. Plus, the family receives whatever donation money comes from charity as a result of this tragedy. These benefits would not be received if it was determined that the cause of Gliniewicz's death was suicide.
B) This is in addition to the wife receiving a pension benefit of at least 50% of her husband's pay for the rest of her life, and life insurance benefits. These are benefits that probably wouldn't be affected if suicide was determined to be the cause of death.
Would there be any other motives? Was he struggling financially? Was he looking forward to retiring? What about that internal investigation? How were things at home?
His work email does not show up on the Ashley Madison list.
http://www.foxlake.org/directory.aspx?EID=28
A mortgage on their home was taken in 2006 by Wells Fargo. It looks like a new home purchase. I'm sursprised that I don't see a refinance recently being that rates are so low now. Perhaps they weren't strapped for cash, or it could mean that they were underwater. The mortgage is not under foreclosure.
http://chicagotribune.public-record.com/property/lake/01351100140000/38561-n-lakeside-pl
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Perhaps if we can find determine why, it will help us to conclude what happened and how. This is still my opinion. For the most part, I just want to know the truth like everyone else.
Thank you.
