Maybe he got too many questions about it.Hmm, that still qualifies as "news" to me. Strange he felt he needed to delete it.
Maybe he got too many questions about it.Hmm, that still qualifies as "news" to me. Strange he felt he needed to delete it.
Hmm, that still qualifies as "news" to me. Strange he felt he needed to delete it.
I would surmise he was asked to or was encouraged by law enforcement to delete it but my no means was forced to do that. In my experience people involved in media often come into contact with info that mainly law enforcement or family is privy to.
Maybe he got too many questions about it.
It would be very very rare (in the US) that LE asks the media to not report on something, even with homicides. The way things work, everything that gets to them is "fair game". The only situation I am aware of here (in Seattle area) in the last 5 years where we asked the media to delay/not report was a tactical situation where lives of our SWAT team were at risk because the armed suspect was monitoring the local media.
Hmm, that still qualifies as "news" to me. Strange he felt he needed to delete it.
I agree with you, what kind of reporter deletes information about a potential lead in an open investigation of a suspicious death? By his standards, all news stories about the animal blood and the plastic bag should also be deleted because, like the zip tie, nothing is known about those items either except that testing is being done on them.
I'm confused, why is that one piece of potential evidence being singled out for censorship? LE never mentioned the zip tie, MSM never mentioned the zip tie except for one reporter who has now deleted his comment.
Reporters should remove information from a Facebook page when it cannot be confirmed. It sounds like the reporter thought he heard, or thought he saw, something, but no one can confirm what he thought he saw. Facebook is a good place to look for confirmation of whatever it was, and it never was printed in the news.
If a zip tie was found up stream, at the opposite end of the culvert from where her body was found, then it could suggest that a zip tie was used to loosely secure the bag over her head, or perhaps her elbows together (which would not leave marks on her).
.... Just a thought.
The blood in the car leads my mind to a dead animal, which is a thrill kill in itself perhaps? And no where to be found? The area where Cheryl lived and died and all the surrounding areas are very much a drug riddled county. Here is a short article on the heroin use about 5 years ago and there has been no improvement since. http://mltnews.com/snohomish-countys-heroin-epidemic-more-resources-needed-local-experts-say/
It would be very very rare (in the US) that LE asks the media to not report on something, even with homicides. The way things work, everything that gets to them is "fair game". The only situation I am aware of here (in Seattle area) in the last 5 years where we asked the media to delay/not report was a tactical situation where lives of our SWAT team were at risk because the armed suspect was monitoring the local media.
Reporters should remove information from a Facebook page when it cannot be confirmed. It sounds like the reporter thought he heard, or thought he saw, something, but no one can confirm what he thought he saw. Facebook is a good place to look for confirmation of whatever it was, and it never was printed in the news.
If a zip tie was found up stream, at the opposite end of the culvert from where her body was found, then it could suggest that a zip tie was used to loosely secure the bag over her head, or perhaps her elbows together (which would not leave marks on her).
.... Just a thought.
Have you worked any missing person cold cases where police release an information summary of a case on the anniversary of the disappearance?
Have you worked a case where police release false information to mislead a perp?
Yeah I agree that they should remove something that they can't confirm but I just think that the time to confirm it is actually before they print it in the first place (fact-checking 101). If they need to delete something that was previously written because it was factually inaccurate, then they should, by professional standards, officially retract it with a written statement as to why they retracted it-right? They shouldn't just delete it on the sly and hope that nobody notices. Then again, this wasn't an official news story but rather, a Facebook post (albeit one written by a reporter on the official FB page for the new outlet for which he works).
Did we ever find out about the folded glasses ? Where were they found ?
Why would a zip tie not leave marks at the elbows?
I have agreed with much of what you have posted other than this. Not sure how your experience in search and rescue relates to media relations with the police.