FL - Somer Thompson, 7, Orange Park, 19 Oct 2009 #35

[Dee10]

I am just becoming suspicious that it very well could be someone in Somer's house & perhaps the police were a bit suspicious too for some reason due to the fact they were there day & night for 3 whole weeks. That just blows my mind when many are having to work overtime; so staff is limited. I have never heard LE doing this before. Then they leave, within a few days DT & her lawyer are on JVM. Wish we knew when he was hired? Sorry this is astounds me.

 

[Ms Suzanne]

I am just becoming suspicious that it very well could be someone in Somer's house & perhaps the police were a bit suspicious too for some reason due to the fact they were there day & night for 3 whole weeks. That just blows my mind when many are having to work overtime; so staff is limited. I have never heard LE doing this before. Then they leave, within a few days DT & her lawyer are on JVM. Wish we knew when he was hired? Sorry this is astounds me.

I think they were there for protection of the family.

 

[Dee10]

I think they were there for protection of the family.

Protection from who? IIRC the letters that started to criticize DT came later.

 

[Ms Suzanne]

Protection from who? IIRC the letters that started to criticize DT came later.

I don't think LE knew.this was a murder of little Somer.Maybe a very brutal murder and they were making sure it did not happen to the other children in the family.I respect LE for staying with them.

 

[jokie7348]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295789,00.html

Not related to somers case... but makes you go... hmmmm

Wow, Sadnpod! A teen (or more than one) has been my #1 suspect from shortly after the beginning. I guess this just shows, along with the Elizabeth Olten case, that teens are becoming likely suspects.
I haven't been able to find much info on teens I suspect. Even if I did, we can't post about it on here. But a teen is my 1st choice.
Thanks for the article.

 

[Dee10]

I went back to reread the article; this was the explanation given:

He believes it was
a good decision to place an officer in the home
because he was there to answer questions,
explain the reasons for police actions and the
process involved in seeking (then preserving)
evidence, assist with the media, and support
the traumatized mother any way he
could.

I can't imagine the above explanation that a cop was required there day & night for the above. It does not make sense to me, protection perhaps but apparently that was not the reason. I am not sure how to read this quote, "and the process involved in seeking (then preserving) evidence".

 

[Ms Suzanne]

I know that posters including myself have referred others to look at No Ways list of video's etc and they don't. They ask the same questions that can be accessed by looking at what No Way has so generously cataloged for everyone to look at with their own eyes.

A poster says something. Another one says, "I don't believe it."

All I can say is, go look for yourself at police reports. Not arrests. They are public knowledge.

Then you decide. Do they mean anything or not.

I feel if people put some work into something, they will take some time to mull it over. They will have ownership, and they can decide instead of the relevance or not or what they mean.

So go for it. Sleuth away and tell me what YOU think. Not what I think.

I have looked at what noway has put for us to see.Noway has done a excelent job for us.Thank you Noway.Some of the video's out there and articles are gone now.I use to have everything on Somer and Haleigh and many Unidentified persons and my computer died.so I lost everything.I'm waiting for the sub forum to come.so everything is there to easily find.

 

[sadnpod]

If the dogs lost her scent at Gano and Debarry, wouldn't she have already been PAST the burned house on Gano? If the scent could have been from days ago on her regular walk home, would it have just suddenly stopped before it went on to her home? If she was picked up by a car at the point they lost her scent, isn't there a crossing guard there at that intersection who would have seen it?

According to one WS member's son, who talked to the crossing guard at Grove Park and Gano, Somer never made it that far - just one house over from the 1080 Gano house. If she never made it that far, she never made it to Gano and Debarry where the dogs lost her scent. Unless she was somewhere else till the crossing guard at Gano and Grove Park and the one at Gano and Debarry had already gone for the day then made it to Gano and Debarry AFTER the crossing guards were gone. Does anyone know what time the crossing guards for those two intersections leave for the day?

I know there werent any there at 340 when I went thru there one day, but i dunno what time they left.

 

[sadnpod]

Yes, seriously. It's how I feel and why I posted it.

IMO she was the only parent active in Somer's life and she's the only one doing anything now to keep Somer's story out there.

I know you are friends with ST. Maybe that's why you don't see it that way.

And maybe that is the reason I know more than you do to base my opinions on.

And of course DT's own actions which I have tried very hard to understand, but she is the one that makes my opinion of her continue its decline. It certainly isnt ST that sways me. Its her. How disconnected she seems from her children. I stand by my reasoning that this interview was only for herself. ST knows that LE has not forgotten Somer, they are the only ones that he is concerned with.

 

[Ms Suzanne]

And maybe that is the reason I know more than you do to base my opinions on.

And of course DT's own actions which I have tried very hard to understand, but she is the one that makes my opinion of her continue its decline. It certainly isnt ST that sways me. Its her. How disconnected she seems from her children. I stand by my reasoning that this interview was only for herself. ST knows that LE has not forgotten Somer, they are the only ones that he is concerned with.

That's the way you feel.That's all about you.Other people that know her might not feel that way about her.

 

[Kimberlyd125]

And maybe that is the reason I know more than you do to base my opinions on.

And of course DT's own actions which I have tried very hard to understand, but she is the one that makes my opinion of her continue its decline. It certainly isnt ST that sways me. Its her. How disconnected she seems from her children. I stand by my reasoning that this interview was only for herself. ST knows that LE has not forgotten Somer, they are the only ones that he is concerned with.

How disconnected SHE is from her children????

So ST would rather sit back and do nothing regarding the case?

No offense to your friend but how connected has he been from his children.

Who took/takes care of them in their day to day lives?

DT

 

[Ms Suzanne]

She is engaged, by the looks of the rock on her finger to a man who has lived with her for several years and who acted like a step father to lil ST in my presence, so IMO that is not a single parent. This same person had a public profile stating they made over 75,000 a yr IIRC. And dont forget she also gets help from the neighbors... IMO whether they want to help or not.

Do we really need another debate on what unfounded means?

I'm happy for her.I'm glad she found someone special in her life.

 

[sadnpod]

Im allowed. Her mothering of Somer is related to what happened to her and sleuthing this case. If the perp were SP for example.. who let him in? Oh her mother.

 

[dar107]

Its good to know that DT has good people to help her out in the most devastating of circumstances. I think its great that she did an interview on a nationally televised program with a lot of exposure, keeping Somer in the spotlight is needed to keep the case out there. She was critisized for not doing any interviews , now for doing an interview. Seems it doesn't matter what she does she will be picked apart.

 

[hoppyfrog]

No more of this, people:

ther_beatingA_Deadther_beatingA_Dead


No good parent/bad parent arguments.

And, if you don't want to have an argument, here's a hint: don't reply to someone else's post.

Hoppyfrog
moderator

 

[Noway]

Are we not supposed to talk about the Thompson Family Trust Fund either? I did want to find information on it but other than the bank it's set up at, I was not able to.

 

[Noway]

Are we not supposed to talk about the Thompson Family Trust Fund either? I did want to find information on it but other than the bank it's set up at, I was not able to.

I do hope the trust was set up to have a third party Trustee and not a parent. That is JMO based on my experiences.

 

[belimom]

I don't think LE knew.this was a murder of little Somer.Maybe a very brutal murder and they were making sure it did not happen to the other children in the family.I respect LE for staying with them.

I hear you, but this isn't standard practice - to have police guard a home when a child disappears/is murdered. At least not at that high of a level. Try explaining it to families in housing projects with a murdered child whose other children are probably even at a higher risk b/c of street violence: there are no cops guarding their homes. This case has received unusual attention from LE from the beginning, for some reason.

 

[NSC]

I went back to reread the article; this was the explanation given:

He believes it was
a good decision to place an officer in the home
because he was there to answer questions,
explain the reasons for police actions and the
process involved in seeking (then preserving)
evidence, assist with the media, and support
the traumatized mother any way he
could.

I can't imagine the above explanation that a cop was required there day & night for the above. It does not make sense to me, protection perhaps but apparently that was not the reason. I am not sure how to read this quote, "and the process involved in seeking (then preserving) evidence".

The LE agencies in my area have social workers on staff inside their departments that handle this - not the officers themselves.

 

[New1]

I do not believe that LE stayed at the house day and night for 3 weeks "to protect the family". When has that ever been done? Did they do that with Elizabeth Olten's family? Her's was a brutal murder too. Did they do it with Jessica Lunsford's family? To my knowledge, LE has never done this in any case I have heard of. IIRC, the other children were not there in this case because DT said on one of her interviews she had sent them away - they were staying elsewhere. Unless they had guests over, it would appear that the only people there to protect was DT and PC, and the "hate mail" came later.