Quick transcription of the KOZI podcast:
Doug Jones, spokesman for the MC Task Force.
What is the latest?
We are continuing to get tips and following those up. Wait for items back from the lab from the crime scenes at Crescent bar and Pitcher canyon.
Haven't gotten any complete (forensic) results yet that point to anyone.
Waiting for tips to come in that will give us something to really go after in this case. We chase down all leads.
We are going through the process of elimination starting with Mackenzie and who she knows and moving out from there. Interviewing and reinterviewing people and making lots of process there.
When there's no obvious subject that comes forward through an immediate eye-witness or immediate evidence, then it's possible that we're into the long-term as far as associates, interviews, finding out who was in the area, looking at the stranger theory--who was in the area. We're into the nitty gritty of real intensive investigation.
At what point does this become a cold case?
We're a long way from that. We're still looking at viable leads.
What about the boat dock and the phone?
She wasn't actually seen at the boat docks. We believe that she was there, but no eye-witnesses. 3:24 - text to boyfriend.
Effect of Wenatchee World releasing the cause of death--will it harm the investigation?
We don't know if it will hamper the investigation... having that knowledge in our toolbox would help with our investigation if we had an interview with a suspect or someone else of interest... Having that information removed from our toolbox, it certainly could impact the investigation.
