Just an additional thought to ponder - a what if. Say BSL is given a LWOP deal for giving up MS's location. Also say... and this is JMO only.... that prosecutors strongly believe (based on some evidence they have in hand) that they have BSL on additional victims. Prosecutors would have possibly come to a deal easier to get him to give it up on MS.
bbm: That scenario -- where prosecutors feel they have very strong evidence in other, as-yet-unidentified cases, waiting to spring -- is one for which I can even
entertain the possibility that they might accept a plea to some "lesser" type of homicide for Mickey and maybe Lisa as well, in return for being led to Mickey's remains. (I know you were talking about a LWOP deal, JustyThoughts -- I'm just taking it a step further, pondering.)
I would think this would be especially possible
if the evidence they have thus far in the two current cases is not so strong. (And just IMO, it
may not be -- saying this just not knowing what was found at BSL's place, what all those witness statements amount to, what is on video, etc.) One thing, though -- I can really hardly imagine
that kind of deal, even with other strong cases in the making, before forensic results are received from FACES.
Unless
maybe ... there is strong exculpatory evidence -- say, purely for one possible example, video footage where Mickey's bike darts out in front of the DWT. If something of that nature existed --
and let me state LOUD, this is ONLY A HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE (not wanting to start a rumor!) -- but if something of that nature existed and has come to light recently, it would have to be revealed to the defense eventually -- the "document" recently released is not really true "discovery", despite the fact that the word "discovery" is in its long title; it was a preliminary kind of document. (A type, in fact, that I think is not all that common and is only prepared at the express request of the court or of the defense -- but I would have to research a bit to be sure of that.)
I doubt if any, much less all, of this is the case -- just following one possibility in this post.