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We have no collective power over the case...
When it takes too long, the witnesses die, the comrades in crime die, and maybe the perpetrators die, too. (((
I often think, if the case has even minimally detonating power, why is it allowed to linger on? Why do details constantly seep out? Just close it, start a wild goose chase around the country, invoke some truck driver, some migrant worker, and attention is diverted. But, it stays local, for 3 years, with all local suspects.
The answer - to me - is simple. First, it is easier to control local news. But the main reason is - the crime is disgusting. This is not a local hit-and-run. It is some smelly, perverted, Caligula-like, deed, that makes any normal person shudder. Probably, people feel ashamed of calling it cold.
It is a very messy case, with lots of collateral damages. Who are:
- one of the two girls (the witness)
- their poor families - who, for all their life mistakes and imperfections, were hoping for a better life for these girls, and raising them the best they could
- RL who spent 4 years behind bars for a charge that seems ludicrous in hindsight
- all the innocent POIs who can’t clear their names, and maybe never will, in public mind
- all the victims of delusional accusations from demented YouTubers/bloggers
- and maybe the people who found them, and likewise, the friends of the girls, who ended up with PTSD, no doubt.
You extend this list.
In my opinion, I think attention got diverted from this case by the April 22, 2019 press conference. Once the police put a young person's sketch up, I think it changed the dynamic of the case. At one point during the press conference the police referred to the sketch and said this is the person responsible. Many people look up to what police and especially profilers have to say about a case. Putting the sketch on the same poster as a still of the video gives the impression that the man walking on the bridge is a young man.
While it is true that many killers like this are younger people in their 20's or 30's, I think you have to be very careful of that wild card situation. And in terms of profiling, we have to remember this was a public place that was remote and not even known to some residents of Delphi, IN. Another wild card.
A video will not always solve a case. I know there are other cases that have video that have gone on for years too so people start asking what good is the video? But in a case where you do not have a video(ex: Molly Bish), you have to do something so it is more understandable to come up with a sketch.
If this case is ever solved and people look back on the investigation, I think investigators are going to breathe a sigh of relief and privately comment amongst each other that it was a good thing Liberty German got that audio/video.