I don't think anyone is going to come in and confess to this crime. In the event of a false confession, you don't need the information in an autopsy to weed out the weirdos that do this. They have the trailers stored out of reach of the family and the public. Just ask them some details about the inside of the trailers. After all no news media or public has been inside of them so that information is still being held from the public. Not even family (other than BJM and DS) has been inside the crime scenes. LE wouldn't even let them in to collect papers needed for probate. They are stored inside a warehouse, wrapped (we think) in plastic. So just ask them "hey if you are the killer, then what color carpet is in the bedroom? What was sitting on the dining room table ect?"
There are all kinds of things that are being kept secret in this case. Like moving the crime scenes and storing them away from the public eye. I think it has more to do with AG Dewine and Sheriff Readers dislike of media than it does compromising the case.
Have to agree, some of the redactions are just "thumbing their nose" at the news media. Most of the "black box" redactions seemed insignificant. For those here at WS used to reading ARs, seeing a standard phrase like "this is the body of a deceased well-nouished, healthy male/female age XX" is not key evidence, but it was a phrase that was blacked out in every Rhoden AR. IMO, that's just LE throwing an insult at the news media. In KR's autopsy, they leave the description of skin tags on the right side of the neck, but one sentence later redact the location of a mole elsewhere. That's just stupid. Skin tags are identifying marks, often with the appearance of a mole.
When I see the AG and BCI do stuff like that, it makes me think they either aren't taking the case seriously or are more interested in scoring points against the news media and public than they are investigating the murders. They apparently have time, resources and energy to be petty and unprofessional.
I have the same concern with the attorney from the Ohio AG's office representing the Pike County coroner, Dr. Kessler, in his deposition. That attorney spent a great deal of time investigating and preparing for that deposition. She and Rob Junk have invested a lot of time and labor into controlling what that guy says and does, from the first day of the investigation. Shouldn't people investigating the murders of 8 people be spending more time on that? After reading these files from the lawsuits, I have serious concerns about how much any of them are actually working on catching the killers.
I don't need the AR's to reveal the gory details of the victims' deaths. I'm more interested in the information they reveal about how this investigation is being handled, how much evidence they really have (IMO, it's significant) and what they're doing with it. I want to see more records made public to gain a better idea of how many highly skilled experts are involved, how much experience the people have who are leading the investigation and if they're sharing information and cooperating with other LE and forensic experts.
What's been revealed thus far in the FOIA cases for the autopsy reports is definitely not encouraging. So far, it paints the picture of a small, tightly controlled investigation that, now that the evidence is all locked up, is just circling the wagons to protect themselves, fending off questions from the public and not doing much else.
I'd like to think they're keeping quiet to protect ongoing undercover investigations of major crime rings to take down big drug kingpins, but I'm not sure that's the case anymore. But I'm having a hard time finding any major case of that size and scope that BCI has ever cracked in Ohio. Hope I'm wrong.
