Chris_Texas
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I read the same thing on nearly every thread. "LE doesn't tell us anything. LE is silent. LE doesn't have anything or they would tell us. This case will never be solved. Et cetera, Et cetera.
It is frustrating to all of us watching and waiting to hear of an arrest.
Today Zahra Baker's murderer went to court. Oct 9 will be one year since Zahra was reported missing. It has been a long year and the outcome wasn't what most of us wanted but EB is in prison. Better something than nothing.
Celina is just as important and it is another case much like Zahra's in that the evidence just wasn't there. This might be another case where the DA is going to have to do a Plea Agreement with the Devil - (accused) to get any kind of conviction.
There are a lot of variables involved with a plea agreement. At this point, we don't know what LE has or who they suspect so it is a waiting game.
I don't think any amount of press coverage can solve a case. Even when we think it is cold I believe someone will be working on it. These detectives want to find out if it was an accident or who killed her, how she was killed, and why was she killed.
Too much coverage can be as damaging as too little imo. Look at Caylee, look at the coverage, did Caylee get justice. It became a three ring circus, the Anthonys, The defense team, and the Prosecution team. Somehow, in all of that the media focused on Casey, not on Caylee. She seemed to be lost in the arena. I wonder if there had been less coverage if there would have been a conviction????? We'll never know and again the evidence just wasn't there for a murder conviction.
We all want the same thing for Celina whether she was murdered or if it was some kind of terrible accident that someone attempted to hide. We want the truth and with that truth we want justice, real justice. We want peace for her family, friends, and the town.
Well, now that I've preached a sermon I feel like I need to say, "Let us Pray"
(Responding to the bolded bit in the middle...)
Respectfully, we know that this is not correct. Press coverage and TV shows often solve cases that the police have essentially abandoned.
It is all well and good for the police to say 'If you know anything tell us please,' but if the public does not know any information about the case they cannot possibly know what information is useful. In other words you don't know if you have a puzzle piece until you get a glimpse of the puzzle itself.
The flip side of this is potentially ruining the case. But this is a bit far fetched. The prosecution is required by law to give the defense access to all the evidence they intend to present at trial. There is no secrets there. And while it might be useful for the police to hold back a few key details only the killer might know, this in no way would preclude them from releasing some or even most of the information they have. It's not like they would be telling the killer something he does not already know.
The only people they are letting in on the secret are the public, the people who employ them and who might actually have the pieces they are missing.
As for Casey Anthony, like many notorious cases it was tried in the press before it was tried in court, and it is possible that this influenced the result. Possible, but not really likely. Casey walked for a bunch of reasons, not the least of which was a very good defense team and a prosecution that got a bit too clever for their own case. But that case was sensational from the beginning, this one not so much.