katydid23
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Of course, but they didn’t even try. I’m not saying they should have broken the door down and ransacked the place. Just a nice little phone call asking “may we please enter your unoccupied residence to ensure a missing teen didn’t find his way in somehow and meet his demise” shouldn’t have been too much to ask.
I think you need to look at this in context of the overall search.
In the very first hours of the search, they had hundreds of locations to search. So when they first came upon that locked up home, they knocked, looked around for clues and then WENT ON TO THE NEXT HOME.
They would need to have a compelling reason to stop searching the neighbourhood in those first hours, and instead try and locate this family and get some way to get inside. Should they have done that with EVERY house that was locked up with no one home?
If you are searching for a 14 yr old, who is possibly a runaway, possibly abducted, you are in an urgent situation. You will have a lot of territory to cover as fast as possible. If there is not anything
to indicate that he was in or around a particular property, you cannot spend several hours trying to get a warrant or an out of state owner to allow you to enter. There are dozens of locked up properties within blocks of HD's home. Are they going to stop at every one and try and find the owners to help them enter a locked up house? I don't think that is even possible.
I think hindsight is 20/20, so everyone jumps on the Chief and calls him a failure, because they didn't get the keys to this home earlier. There are hundreds of homes they didn't get the keys to---were they supposed to enter ALL of them?