Thank you for your extensive and well-thought out response. I agree that the documentary left alot out but they kind of had to or it would have had to have been much more than 10 episodes. It also left out just as much of the defense side of things as it did the "damning evidence" that all the news articles are screaming about. For instance, the documentary barely touched on the one area of that investigation that actually hurts my heart and soul for the victim, and that is the bones. I am sure many here are probably tired of me going on about this subject, but it does weigh on my heart, as I said, because those were not just bones. That had been an actual person at one time. To me, LE showed almost as much disregard and disrespect for her life as the murderer did.
You said, you are in LE, so I would like to get your opinion on the fact that they would not let anyone on site to examine and recover the bones properly. The fact that they just shoveled the bones into buckets to transport them to the Crime Lab for sifting, wouldn't that just damage the bones further before examination? And then they just boxed them up, and delivered them to the medical examiner's office. That cannot be proper procedure, is it?
I would like to apologize for my fixation on this particular subject, but apart from Brendan's mistreatment by LE, this is the one area of this case that haunts me still. I also find it fishy that her death certificate was dated Dec. 5, but the DNA results did not come back until Jan 19. How could they make her death certificate when they did not yet have the evidence that those bones were actually hers?
OMG- Ok, let me clarify again. I work IN law enforcement—I am not an officer. I work for two agencies, volunteer in others and am active in other areas of personal interest. I hate that you or anyone else thought otherwise or were intimidated simply because I was defending the po po. The implication that any of my deputies or State Police would be sniping jurors off the court house roof made me see red!!!
I work closely with hundreds of officers, not thousands. I am defensive of law enforcement, to a fault at times, because of the recent trends I see and how they negatively impact all of us daily. It’s SO SAD! I will never claim that all police officers are saints, but I’d stake my reputation that NONE of MINE would ever do anything like what’s being alleged here. It just DOESN’T happen. Not on this scale. Not in my parts. Won’t go on forever on that, I’m aware that I am lucky.
I do NOT work in forensics at all. And although I have watched FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY THREE episodes of “Forensic Files” TWICE!!!!! and prefer to fall asleep to “The First 48”-----
I won’t even pretend to be even remotely qualified enough to pick death certificate type documents apart or try to justify OR dispute their procedures here. It’s almost laughable to suggest that I could.
I guess all I was saying is that SO MUCH goes on behind the scenes that regular civilians aren’t privy to. We can’t and SHOULDN’T assume everything that cannot be explained is SHADY.
I also get left side facial droopage and a bizarre re-occurring eye twitch when I read about how her remains were processed. Don’t apologize for obsessing on that. She IS THE VICTIM afterall. The ONLY ONE WE KNOW ABOUT FOR SURE. It comes off on paper like “Oh hey--- toss this one in there too will ya’ Tom? Might be a tooth”
(Tom simulates hoop shot from 2ft out. He shoots--- he SCORES!!!!! Tooth in the box! Crowd goes wild!”

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr
Again, I’m not in forensics, but it’s not like we are talking about a scene that was processed in 1950. This was 2005? You’d THINK they’d have better resources, firm policies, and directives spelled out for scenarios where outside agencies are handling their cases? The who’s, what’s, when’s of every possible scenario. Or at least some resource manual in the DA’s office entitled “Don’t get jammed up! Handing over your case to a neighboring jurisdiction for dummies”
Like, for example, if they expunge themselves from the investigation WHY ARE YOU EVEN ON SCENE!? If NOT already spelled out in a policy due to it being the first of such events for them and being generally unprepared----- is it not COMMON sense? Was the DA not seeing this transpire and having a friggin stroke?
All I can say is that hindsight is 20/20. NOBODY is ever fully prepared for an active shooter or crime scene consisting of 4000 cars or a case with 36 million reasons to accidentally drop a keychain on a search. But in general—WE HERE cannot possibly know everything.
Was there a preliminary DNA report that’s unavailable online that contained DNA results? Did they get verbal word of mouth to the medical examiner before the lab finalized their report? Was the coroner refused access to the scene (I was unaware of this!) because there was an initial dispute about WHICH coroner to use? From which County? turf war? Who knows, but despite the fact logic says STOP until it’s all resolved—we’re seeing logic went out the door in many areas.
I can pick apart incident reports and court documents and theorize, but only those most closely involved in the case will know all. An example would be the standard incident report. I’ve been involved in several high profile cases, one reaching the national level last summer with escaped cons running around in my county. High volume, fast paced, critical things that are time sensitive just cannot be picked apart in hindsight by non-law enforcement personnel. A missing person’s case that spans 10 days may result in an incident report dated one month later. As each new narrative/update is added, date/time should be noted and obvious to the eye-- depending on the report writing software!
You can’t doubt it’s credibility entirely and suspect a rat if an officer notes in error that he took care of something minor at the incorrect date or time. It shouldn’t happen, but it can. Especially when most of them ALLEGEDLY HAVE HORRIBLE HANDWRTING and are working off 87,000 “notes” of scrap paper shoved in their shirt pocket hours or sometimes days later. Ppl are human.
Were pics taken of the bones in the earth, yet came out over-exposed? Was an entire role of film lost and not mentioned? Or ARE there pics-- just UNAVAILABLE to us now? I haven’t chased down every link yet, but are ALL the “crime scene” / evidence photos taken for this trial logged AND online now? Doubtful.
In closing, just know that anything I ever feel strongly about or comment on will be based on:
A. my professional experience, familiarity with law enforcement and the behaviors of MOST cops
B. my TWENTY FOUR YEAR OBSESSION with all things true crime
C. my trial obsession dating back pre-OJ (but certainly elevated to a METHAMPHETAMINE addiction level once trials began airing on TV!!!)
D. my 24 years as a MOTHER
E. my dabbling in human behavioral science and psychology post-grad
*I apologize if I came off as a rag when I posted at dawn this morning. I was exhausted, hungry, and downright DONE with my “day”. I try not to be an Ahole, but I still have ovaries for a few more years. :devil::devil::devil: Viral throat punches accepted 