LE wants to interview the parents separately

[1tasha]

That's a really good question. I'm trying to think of cases where LE turned on the parents, and then they were confirmed innocent. Did Jaycee Dugard's stepdad stop cooperating? I think so, but I could be wrong.

I believe Coralrose Fullwood's family stopped cooperating.

Really good question. We should all search our brains and come up with cases where confirmed innocent people stopped/or didn't stop cooperating after LE clearly had them in the crosshairs.

Aren't the majority of parents of missing children in the crosshairs AT SOME POINT? Could LE possibly be trying to rule them out?

 

[JeannaT]

Respectfully, it seems to me that if they are in fact innocent of any wrongdoing and are actually interested in LE finding their baby, they would instead be jumping at the chance to exonerate themselves completely, so that 100% of LE's focus could be devoted exclusively where it should be... IF that were the case. (Which, IMO, it is not.)

Well, I think a lot of people share your viewpoint. I think that's why they DID put up with 4 days of that.

I'm not sure how much more would be required.

 

[Donjeta]

It's not clutching at straws at all. It's called evidence versus speculation. You can;t just assume that something happened when you don't have all the information.

It is IMO reasonable to believe that parents wouldn't be too happy about the time of last contact being all wrong in all the information that goes out in the news and the police getting it wrong as well, and would want to correct it because it throws the investigation off by several hours.

But of course you are right and we don't have the information. It is possible that JI and DB did not care.

 

[Chris_Texas]

I believe that mommy killed this girl. I am not on the fence. I am not even leaning against the fence. In my opinion Mom killed her daughter and very likely chucked the corpse in the river. And I believe that LE knows it and wants to hammer both her and her husband separately and see which one cracks first.

With that said, I do NOT hold her refusal to answer questions against her. In my mind it is irrelevant as her story started out ridiculous and went rapidly downhill from there.

 

[Cappuccino]

With the exception of Kevin Fox, how many of them were parents who wrongly confessed to killing their children? Statistically, parents just don't do this...even when they are guilty sometimes. Parents just want LE to move on from them and put the full focus on the missing child. Sometimes they do move on, and sometimes they just can't.

MOO

It may be statistically unusual, but Kevin Fox shows that its not impossible. That's why his name is being brought into this thread - some posters are saying that the parents' lawyering up is in some way incriminating. IMO, looking at what happened to Kevin Fox, (not to mention Michael Crowe, Peter Reilly, Martin Tanklieff), I think the parents decision was wise.

They may be guilty, they may be innocent, I don't know. But either way, their decision to lawyer up tells us nothing. If they are guilty, obviously they need a lawyer, but if they are innocent they REALLY need a lawyer at the moment.

 

[MyBelle]

I was comparing Fox to DB. And, the point here is that LE railroaded the poor man, when there was no evidence that he did anything, AND that they completely ignored evidence of the real rapist/killer.

Oh, and Kevin was also told that he failed his Poly, and he was told that there was physical evidence against him that didn't exist, too.

LE hasn't railroaded anyone in Lisa's case.

 

[Tiki]

There really is no impasse.. Just bring the parents in, haul their butts in and interrogate them.. Their lawyer can be there if they wish. This is NOT up to those parents and personally I think its time LE took the bull by the horns and said as much. This is up to LE.. I think we need more FBI presence. DB and JI have NO RIGHT what so ever to ask for different police.. None.. So when they dont like what new ones have to say they can ask for new ones again and again.. Yeah ok..

BBM
ITA and, JMO, but I suspect Lisa's case is not the only one this agency is investigating. As interested in this case as we are, I bet the people involved in other cases would like to have them solved, too.

It seems normal procedure is to assign certain detective(s) to individual cases and don't switch them around. I think their reasoning might be that the assigned investigator concentrates on his/her cases thereby having more complete knowledge of them. Hauling detectives off their own cases to have them question people concerning a different case would not be the most efficient use of time. High powered lawyers can go on TV and spout off all they want, but that doesn't mean LE has to accommodate them. Just imagine all the people who would start requesting different officers to question them. It sounds, to me, like an excuse to avoid being questioned again.

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[JeannaT]

Aren't the majority of parents of missing children in the crosshairs AT SOME POINT? Could LE possibly be trying to rule them out?

Yes, in the kind of "little" crosshairs, IMHO. I think most of the cases that were huge - Polly Klaas, Adam Walsh, Elizabeth Smart, Charles Lindbergh Jr., the parents weren't really in BIG crosshairs. Interviewed, for sure, but not really suspect. No one shouted at them in the first hour of questioning that they are murderers.

There are other cases of clearly innocent parents where they WERE in the hotseat.

 

[Chris_Texas]

Questioning is great. I think no one objects to that.

Did LE ever shout in their faces that they're lying murderers?

Why would you object to this if it worked?

 

[LadyL]

at this point, I would sit down with them separately and for days on end if it would help find my baby

if the parents (or one of the parents) don't think it will be helpful, that speaks volumes to me OR if they are unwilling b/c it's too stressful for them, that also casts a shadow on them for me

all jmo

 

[Melanie]

Well, I think a lot of people share your viewpoint. I think that's why they DID put up with 4 days of that.

I'm not sure how much more would be required.

I would hope that as much as LE required. I can't help but think of CFCMA when LE wanted to ask her questions and she said she "would entertain" questions. Of course when Jose Baez showed up at the jail, the felon didn't answer a single question.

If a parent has nothing to hide in the case of their missing child, it is my humble opinion that they should pack a suitcase, sleeping bag and pillow, and camp out in a room with detectives until something comes up. Maybe nothing comes up but if you're a mother looking for your missing child...YOU TRY.

I'm sorry, but that's how I feel.

Mel

 

[JeannaT]

Why would you object to this if it worked?

Well, I object to thumbscrews, and they work in cases of guilty people.

I don't want to put innocent people through that, though. So that's why I object.

AND, these tactics inspire a LOT of false confessions that set the justice system back.

 

[marge_rita]

are you saying you agree with my post or not-just asking

agreeing

 

[MyBelle]

It may be statistically unusual, but Kevin Fox shows that its not impossible. That's why his name is being brought into this thread - some posters are saying that the parents' lawyering up is in some way incriminating. IMO, looking at what happened to Kevin Fox, (not to mention Michael Crowe, Peter Reilly, Martin Tanklieff), I think the parents decision was wise.

They may be guilty, they may be innocent, I don't know. But either way, their decision to lawyer up tells us nothing. If they are guilty, obviously they need a lawyer, but if they are innocent they REALLY need a lawyer at the moment.

Kevin Fox CONFESSED, he did not "lawyer up." Some of you are comparing this case to cases that are not similar and it's taking the thread entirely off topic.

JMO

 

[JeannaT]

at this point, I would sit down with them separately and for days on end if it would help find my baby

if the parents (or one of the parents) don't think it will be helpful, that speaks volumes to me OR if they are unwilling b/c it's too stressful for them, that also casts a shadow on them for me

all jmo

Well, they agree with you. They did that already.

 

[MyBelle]

Yes, in the kind of "little" crosshairs, IMHO. I think most of the cases that were huge - Polly Klaas, Adam Walsh, Elizabeth Smart, Charles Lindbergh Jr., the parents weren't really in BIG crosshairs. Interviewed, for sure, but not really suspect. No one shouted at them in the first hour of questioning that they are murderers. There are other cases of clearly innocent parents where they WERE in the hotseat.

BBM. We don't know that happened in this case.

JMO

 

[madge]

Well maybe tomorrow DB and JI will go sit down separately with investigators, take their high powered defense attorney's with them and answer the new questions that LE needs answered. Then and only then can LE totally ELIMINATE them as POI or suspects. IF they sit down and answer these questions I'm sure LE will glean something new and learn something to HELP FIND LISA. I would want to be eliminated in order to free up LE resources to go in other directions.

 

[marge_rita]

No, but we do call it off topic. Casey Anthony has nothing to do with this case, and you cannot draw a conclusion that this mother is guilty just because some woman down in Florida got away with killing her child. Casey Anthony should be left firmly out of the discussion.

Not really off topic at all. She first posted about Deborah and next posted about FCA. Both women 'lost' their children. One killed her child and got away with it. Will the other mother- if she killed her child-do the same thing....get off with no charges?

 

[cluciano63]

While the parents and their lawyers put forward their case to the media, time is passing...memories are failing...evidence may be deteriorating...

If the lawyers are as convinced as they say that Lisa was kidnapped by a stranger, why won't they work with LE and their clients, sitting down for questioning, working through scenarios, etc...

How often is a parent of a missing child charged? Almost never, it seems. There are plenty of cases where the suspect seems obvious, yet still, no one is charged, if the child is not found. I don't think the threat of being "railroaded" is as valid as being represented here. Even in Haleigh Cummings case, no one has been charged with anything to do with Haleigh. And Hassani Campbell, where it seems obvious that there is a clear suspect...no charges and no child.

Maybe LE has come across some items of interest on their computer...maybe months ago they had some work done at the house or made contact with a new person, and LE has questions about that. We don't know what LE wants to talk to them about, but really, what could be off-limits if it could lead to a break? I am baffled...and kind of disgusted...

 

[JeannaT]

Can you please post links to some of the things you are posting because it sounds like insider information. I am wondering how these things are known as in "during her first hour of questioning"... Links please.

JT said it in an interview. I have no insider information.