I agree. Actually, if it's coming from an inmate, it could be very significant or a complete hoax.
However, if it was an inmate's lie, it had to be credible and resonate with a track LE was on.
Also, the Sheriff threatened people who were not disclosing everything they knew. It's possible the show of force is part of the tactics.
How many times LE interviewed, the Ws: 1, 2, 3 times or more? If each of these interviews were smooth and convincing I doubt LE would show with a SWAT team on a fake tip.
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If each of these interviews were smooth and convincing I doubt LE would show with a SWAT team on a fake tip.
I agree with you. We all know prisoners lie. We all know they make up stuff to get a plea deal, get a day out, whatever. But if we know it, LE knows it a hundred times over, because they deal with prisoners every single day.
I am sure LE has seen every trick prisoners play a thousand times over. So I am equally sure that the BCI, DTF, SWAT and at least two counties didn't roll out 33 units for three days and waste all that manpower based on a prisoners tip that may or may not have been the truth.
I am also sure that judge that signed the search warrant has seen every trick in the book that prisoners play, so I am sure he/she did not sign it based on some random prisoners fantasy.
And I am very sure they didn't take that enclosed trailer full of personal possessions because some LE officer wanted to move his furniture. There is something in that trailer belonging to the W's that ties into the R murders.
They had evidence the W's were somehow connected to the R's murders, they said it publicly, "these searches are connected to the Rhoden family murders." Given the tiny amount of information LE releases about this case, that statement was huge, a virtual bombshell.
They also said the same thing about JM. "This GPS tracker was put on the vehicle in connection with the Rhoden family murders." I feel sorry for LM, but I am not going to allow that to blind me to the fact that LE believes JM is connected to his sister's murder. If they are putting pressure on him, then they have evidence to do so.
We only know a tiny fraction of what the LE working this case knows, so I think that until we do know, it is prudent of us to listen to the trickle of information LE is giving us and not assume that LE is lying to us every time they make a statement. Because I don't think they are.
And just for the record, AW's whining about her devastated life aside, LE knows exactly what effect stating that a search of someone's property is connected to a murder will have on those people's lives. So they don't do that for fun and they don't publicly state that often, especially based on some random prisoner's tip.
I will say it again. Where there is smoke, there is fire.