The way I read the other case, the detective was accusatory to the defendant, as was YM when he told her that Caylee was probably dead in a trash can, i.e.
Just saying, it is pretty close. They knew Casey had lied about every little thing by then and I am convinced she was a suspect at the time. JMO
Yes, but the police require probable cause to make an arrest. They would need to have substantial reason to believe a crime had been committed and that the suspect involved had committed that crime. The police were obviously confused as to the lying, and they knew for sure she had done that. But they had no idea why she was lying. You are assuming that they
knew it was because she was personally involved in a kidnapping of her own daughter, or a murder. They knew no such thing. All they knew for certain was that she had lied about what had happened to her daughter and was continuing to lie to them about things that were obviously easily disproved.
Outside of being unbelievably confusing, this would also raise more questions than create probable cause. YM was wondering whether she was intentionally hiding her child, for example, from the grandparents (which is not illegal, by the way). He was also wondering whether she was simply refusing to tell them where the child was because it was with a boyfriend, etc., and did not want others to know about the relationship. There were a nearly infinite number of possibilities. None of that adds up to probable cause for an arrest for
kidnapping or murder.
We are seeing all of this in hindsight. It is easy for us to read meaning and significance into events as they unfolded three years ago, because we know the whole story now. The police at Universal that day had only begun to take the magical mystery tour into ICA's freak show. They could not possibly have realized that
there was a possibility that she had actually done something to her child.
That being said -- I do believe that YM was not being entirely honest in his responses during his initial testimony with JB regarding whether he had any suspicion about what
might have happened. He was dealing with a girl who had not reported her child missing for 31 days and then lied to the police with every statement that came out of her mouth. I do not believe that he was not suspicious, and it may well be that all of them thought she was involved and should be considered a suspect.
I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt, but frankly, that makes as little sense as the DT's theory of what happened. In other words, it just defies credulity to imagine that they
wouldn't have had some suspicion.
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