Trino
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Re: Missing Person's Day
Why not go nationwide?
Why not go nationwide?
Wouldn't the perp still leave behind DNA?
Surely someone saw DP driving that night.
Re: Missing Person's Day
Why not go nationwide?
Wouldn't the perp still leave behind DNA?
Surely someone saw DP driving that night.
Hopefully, LE has information that we don't. I find it hard to believe that someone didn't see him, and I'm hoping they come forward. Surely someone saw something that can be of help.
Ehhhh
I absolutely agree (feel) LE has information (LOTS of it) that they haven't shared. But, if they had anything strong, DP would've been arrested by now, IMO.
Hi MaddyDecaf, welcome to ws.
Just from other cases I have followed (Melinda Duckett to name one for example) I'm thinking LE has enough evidence to arrest DP, but holding out hoping he will lead them to Stacy. In my opinion I think Drew is being followed everywhere he goes.
justbetweenus
I agree, but also feel that LE needs some more "solid" evidence before the prosecutor feels that he can take this case before a jury, especially since Brodsky has so much "innenudo" (sp?) that MIGHT make a jury feel that there is "reasonable doubt" in their minds to render a guilty verdict.
No doubt in my mind, the LE and Cassandra's family want one trial with one finding, GUILTY!! That also goes for the Savio family if DP is also charged with a murder for her.
Good point Maddy! Does anyone really think that LE has actually followed DP all the way to Florida and stayed there and followed his every move??
I don't personally.
I beleive his moves are being followed when he is at home, but I really find it hard to believe it extends to out of state.
What does everyone else think? GPS????
I am afraid I might have to agree. (sigh) It seems they only have two choices here. Either go ahead and file charges with the circumstantial evidence they do have or resign themselves to the probability that DP outsmarted them.LE is dying on the vine.
Alas, this is the situation with most family members when facing these circumstances. Arrest, indict and convict someone -- FAST -- and NEVER look at the possibility that the person you want to be guilty, isn't. (Why not? Because then the family would have to come to terms with being wrong .. can't have that!)
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SS mentioned that she wished media would have a public search for missing persons day. That got me started, because I knew I had seen some statistics for Chicago about missing persons.
Now of the 20,000 a percentage of them will probably return. But a percentage will never return. And a large percentage of them are in all probability dead. Dead, missed, and ignored.
I would like for us to use those figures to try to push the Chicago media into declaring a "missing person's day." As a part of their broadcasts and articles they could talk about the fact that rewards are available in many of the missing persons cases, they could encourage property owners and tenants of those properties to walk the grounds and what they should be checking and looking for (like checking in containers on the property and checking the ground for new areas that may have been dug, depressions and mounds and signs of burn sites that cannot be previously accounted for.) Property owners should be checking out their vacant properties.
It should be a matter of pride for any community to come together in the time of crisis. And when a person is missing, that is indeed a time of crisis. To ignore the fact that they have decomposing remains of once living human beings in their alleys, fields, woods, ditches and basements they own is not anything to be proud of. To not even try to locate them is worse.
Since we have been watching the Peterson case, one body was found in an abandoned home, one was found in a ditch- the one in a ditch was thought to have been there for 13 years.
In the next few days I am going to be sending out some emails to as many media providers as I can find asking that the media come together, choose a date and then go public with the information and the request.
Property owners don't have to be searching for a reward, not for Lisa or Stacy or for any particular person. They will be doing it for their community pride, for themselves, and because that type of search will benefit all the missing. But it will take more than one voice, one who doesn't even live in the area. I am asking that everyone help me in gathering media email addresses and starting an email campaign.
I think it's more a matter of that the family has insights into the character of the suspect than the public does. Family sees personal interactions; they know the little fights and comments between them; they may know of threats or insinuations noone else does....and they are in a better position to have "intuition" about people. While not proof, of course, all of this can bear on WHY a family thinks of a suspect as guilty.
I'm sorry, but I can think of several people in my general circle (friends' husbands and acquaintances, and one ex-family member) that I could, unfortunately, imagine doing something bad.
I think this is an excellent idea. I have an idea, also. Why don't you contact one of the Chicago-area investigative reporters with this idea? Renee Ferguson, Dave Savini, or one of their counterparts? I have contacted both of them on prior occasions and gotten fantastic results for problems I ran into. This is huge! And, they just might jump at the chance. Or, consider Oprah! She loves a good story, and she has the national interest to make it work. Just a couple of suggestions from someone very interested in this case and the Lisa Stebic case... both just a little too close to home for comfort.