jellybeanz
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Certainly there was a lot of strategy involved. In one way, this case is similar to others in that the more you look, the more you dig, the more you usually get. We started off with a baseline and that was us being capable of saying we can prove beyond probable cause that these two did, in fact, obstruct justice and public nudity. As we added to it from the search warrant, we found we could get the kidnapping charge. We ran that by a judge and the judge said, Yes. So then after we did that, we looked at some more stuff and then we said, Alright, we think we can get the murder charge. We showed that to the judge and, of course, we got an arrest warrant.
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Rhodes said the department paid particular attention to the Moorers from early on, even keeping tabs of their social media pages where the Moorers talked about trips they were taking out-of-state.
Throughout the process of the investigation, when the Moorers did leave the area, we were very much aware of where they were at all times, so we were coordinating with other agencies throughout the course of the investigation, Rhodes said.
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