The only thing I can think of is that the 2 people involved have ties to the LE in that town. I hate to say it, but that is where my money is right now.
I agree someone might have ties for sure. This news story came around the time of the anniversary of Katelyn's discovery, and now I'm waiting for Chief Dickey to say "We found something, but we have to keep it secret for another ten years or we'll jeopardize the investigation. It's the public's fault." Maybe this was another publicity push (which was a great idea if so). I haven't understood the thinking regarding secret information since the moment John stopped talking, but I'm getting closer to figuring out why human beings play this disgusting game (that's another discussion). There are reasons for detectives to keep very specific secrets, and they are outlined in state sunshine laws or "freedom of information" laws. There is NOT a need for this kind of near-blanket secrecy over a period of several years, especially when a case is growing cold. The FPD still doesn't have a Facebook page for a reason. More people are beginning to catch on to the realization that mistakes are being covered up, or there are indeed inappropriate ties; maybe there's good old-fashioned, small town corruption in Fairfield. I think it's a combination of incompetence and an unwillingness to accept accountability. Notice how Chief Dickey in the recent article implied that the PI ruined the relationship between the FPD and the two people who allegedly failed the polygraph. No arrests have been made anyhow, so who cares? No matter what happens, the Chief will not accept anything less than perfection on the part of the FPD as the
perceived result, even if they botched the case. In emails to me he has already rewritten history in a couple of ways. Their primary goal, which might change if enough pressure is exerted, is to make the case grow cold or figure out a way to become heroes by changing facts. They might be willing to arrest to the wrong person, in my opinion. If you research the Chelsea Johnson and Joseph Oakley cases, you might wonder if any resolved homicide cases in Fairfield need to be reexamined.
If the FPD doesn't act, then what happened to Katelyn? What is the new information? What explains Johns behavior if it was not a homicide (premeditated or heat-of-the-moment)? There is a LOT to explain if this was an overdose. We're approaching the four year mark. Whether or not ties to law enforcement exist, we know some things for certain: According to the neighbors, Katelyn's car was there and John's wasn't when they arrived home. Katelyn's phone was disabled at 12:45AM. The CONTENT of the last text conversation links John's alibi location with a task John said he went to the alibi location to perform - burning a big bag of papers instead of staying with his fiance Saturday night - and there are many parts of John's story that are either improbable or self-contradictory, and which strongly suggest that something happened to Katelyn earlier than Midnight. If that's true, then John was a part of the disposal of Katelyn's body. There are strong indications of conflict in John's language, and simply related to his actions and timeline details. There are strong indications of staging. Katelyn's father posted within the last week that he
still has the documents John claimed he burned. A convenience store clerk, "sex traffickers," and "drug dealers" were implicated through the years by members of John's family. A few days ago, John's aunt posted on her own page something suggesting "everybody knows what happened" (paraphrasing), but she naturally failed to mention what happened; that's sort of what we're all trying to figure out. The circle of friends might
believe Katelyn died of an overdose because this is one story that's been passed around, and they might have failed a polygraph lying about a false story they believe to be true. However she died, a lot of questions still need to be answered. Even if an arrest is made by the FPD, I will not believe it's a legitimate arrest until I see the proof. Generally speaking, what happened seems pretty obvious to me today using basic common sense, and it's the same thing I thought from the first time I saw the news about the case. If a PI implicates two newly identified people out of left field, will detectives make an arrest without addressing the open questions about John? In this case, it won't work.
I'm going to keep demanding the same thing I've tried to demand for years, because now I believe more people will listen. If there is new information and the FPD won't act, then make it public. In Fairfield, law enforcement is not providing direction in the best-case scenario, and there are good people who are being mislead into thinking they need to hide information to protect a homicide case that might not even be prosecutable anyway. PI's might care about the reward, which is understandable. I recently discovered that we all have an innate desire to be unpredictable, to be in a position to better our adversaries (that's a hint about what I think some of the roadblocks are all about). If there is new information, what is it? Stop playing games. Does it show Katelyn was forcibly removed from her town home? If so, someone at the state or federal level needs to
file lesser charges of some kind and re-publicize the case so anybody else who has been hiding information will be informed and feel pressured into coming forward. Then they need to perform an audit of the way the case was handled locally and force some changes in leadership.
