I have more of a problem that its ok for a 14 yr old to have sex as long as there is 3 yrs diff.
If he found this young lady online and sought her out and had sex with her to me that very different than meeting someone and
having a 6 month relationship.
the guy is fried no matter how u look at it but its like a witch hunt.
LE is the one that messed up IMO there was no Urgency in finding her.
Now they have to save face.
No cars seized till way after the fact.
By the time she was reported missing she had already been gone 4 days!
Her car was found and they even had a person caught on film walking with her into the garage.
Drug dealing BF
etc
etc
etc
So many red flags yet to me and imo so much was done wrong!
I mean really.
They saw her walk in!
They saw him drive out!
BBM
We can scrutinize and criticize LE as a matter of opinion, however, IMO, we do not have all of the facts therefore we cannot assume they've "messed up".
1) LE's sense of urgency: LE has no way of knowing they need to start investigating a missing persons case until it is reported. From what I understand, as soon as MM reported her as missing, PPD filed a report and immediately started gathering facts. EA's first interview was the day following the missing persons report, so was the reviewing of the security footage of them walking into the garage, and so was his second interview. LE appeared to act with a considerable amount of urgency. According to affidavits, there have been multiple officers in the field working on getting this resolved and I would assume that if we were privy to the amount of information they have, and could see the hours they've already dedicated, IMO, I think we would see that this case is very important to them. We don't yet know what they haven't chosen to release and if the past is an indicator for the future, IMO, there's a lot we probably haven't seen. For example, in reviewing the affidavit info for the search warrant and the affidavit for the arrest. Look at how much information LE already had, prior to the 9/26 search warrant being issued, yet they didn't include the info in the search warrant affidavit. I only included items that had date stamps in the list below and could therefore be verified that LE knew prior to 9/26:
- They already had the Scruffy Duffies We Scan and bar tab info (compiling a list of items they knew she had in her possession at the time of her disappearance; ID, credit card)
- PP & SN interview info
- Arrest affidavit states CM car processed by CSI on 9/4, not just a Dr. Pepper can, the car.
- SB Interview information
- Officers were reviewing not just parking garage surveillance from that garage, but other garages and businesses throughout the shops. That must have taken quite a bit of time to review
- CA interviews
- HF voluntarily providing cellular phone to be forensically extracted (photo messages from CM)
- Trash pulls 9/10
- Learns about phone theft and learns Wylie PD report filed (9/15)
- Police obtain stolen cellphone (9/23)
- Trash pulls 9/24 (note found)
- Kroger CCTV
2) CM's vehicle was processed by CSI on 9/4 and a search warrant was issued approving the search of EA's vehicle 24 days after the missing persons report was filed, of which 7 of those days was spent in jail. IMO, in looking at the list above, it looks like LE was performing an exhaustive investigation which was of importance in obtaining the search warrant.
IMO, to me, it sounds like LE was relentless in their pursuit of evidence.