Chorley8 - have not commented to you or anyone on a search of the Jessop home the night CJ went missing.
It was New Year’s Eve; a severe storm was predicted for that evening.
Detective Fitzpatrick testified that he suggested to Inspector Brown that a
tarpaulin be used to cover the area of the remains until the next day. This was
not done. No tarp or tent was erected to protect the site from the impending
storm. Inspector Brown determined that, considering the vegetation, tenting
the area would be difficult without cutting down saplings and, perhaps,
contaminating the scene further. He testified that he had discussions with the
identification officers, who assured him that officers could clear the body site,
before leaving, of any and all evidence that was retrievable. In fact, at the end
of the day, the search was not yet complete.Considering the inclement weather, the decision not to protect the site
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was imprudent, and there was insufficient time to preserve all possible
evidence before the area was fully covered by snow and ice. It is to Detective
Fitzpatrick’s credit that he made the suggestion to take the necessary steps
to preserve the site so that the search could be continued the following day
and, I am sure, it must be a matter of regret for Inspector Brown — indeed,
he said so — not to have followed Fitzpatrick’s advice. I understand that
making arrangements of this kind is not always easy, and getting a tent on
New Year’s Eve might have been difficult, if not impossible. But even a
tarpaulin would have gone a long way to protect the ground. Unfortunately,
this was not done.
I am just tying to link together a psychology of someone who would 1. not only kidnap a child and kill them but display a body then 2. tend a body keeping it uncovered 3. hope for its dramatic discovery by some unfortunate 4. then be moved to action when they saw it would be covered (with snow) in the coming hours quite possibly. So it is state of mind up to the snowfall I am getting at.
I had nothing to listen to... I heard no voices, received no secret messages. All I had was a strong feeling my sister wasn't all buried. In the second trial pretrial motions I was accused of making it up.... Till YRP found a report they took from my mother because I was so persistent. Durham wouldn't even listen so my mother phoned YRP.. But of course that wasn't published in any book.
Where do we go from here? Keep arguing over minutia?
Or band together to get answers?
The judge did everything he possibly could, through gesture and demeanour, to make it perfectly clear that Guy Paul Morin was the only potential criminal in his courtroom. He even relaxed the practice of wearing judicial robes in court and wore a turtleneck sweater instead. As soon as Michalowsky walked in, he extended him a warm handshake, "something that judges do not do to witnesses."52 The jurors joined the informal judge and defence counsel in a semi-circle in the courtroom to hear Sergeant Michalowsky, a man who had evidently been granted a license to commit perjury without the fear of reproof, give evidence in an atmosphere which was more akin to a group therapy session, than to a serious trial. Clayton Ruby appropriately sighed; "Ah, justice. Elusive isn't it?"
Apart from ensuring his/her escape from the scene of a crime, the murderers greatest challenge is to avoid subsequent detection by disposing of the victims body. The short-term aim may simply be to conceal the fact that a crime as been committed for long enough to guarantee a comfortable getaway, but the long-term aim is to prevent the body ever being found or identified. That way the murderers chances of being forensically linked to a criminal act are greatly reduced. Research into murder cases has indicated that where there is an established relationship between the victim missing person there is more concealed deposition of the body. In simple terms why would a stranger need to spend time with the disposal of a victims body if in the normal course of a police investigation that person could not be connected to the victim by enquiry? A number of stranger killers have concealed the bodies of their victims in order to prevent them from being forensically linked to the crime. It has been noted that since the introduction of the National DNA Database that instances of concealed deposition of a victims body have increased.
Few acts of the murderer show such dedication and ingenuity as the disposal of the victims body and few tasks are so awesome. The human body is surprisingly durable, and its destruction without trace is extremely difficult to achieve. Disposing of human remains poses two important problems of which the murderer often takes too little account. Firstly, dead bodies decompose and give rise to a very detectable smell, and secondly, the sheer bulk of the human frame makes disposal a difficult task.If in the course of an enquiry a suspect is known then a full background investigation of that individual is an essential element when considering a concealed deposition of the body. This should include all areas used or known to that individual in order that a search strategy can be developed which considers all the most probable areas for a concealed deposition of a victim missing persons body. There are very few cases nationally where a body has been disposed of randomly. The offenders in these cases go to great lengths to cut down the risks of detection by choosing an area for deposition that they are familiar with, knowing what or whom they are likely to encounter at the time of deposition. By ensuring that a suspects background is fully investigated at the outset enables all search activity to be intelligently led.
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