I want to clear the air with my fellow sleuths, and why i Don’t have much confidence in police investigations and how they buggle them, I am going to use my families personal experience.
You have read about the cold case with my great aunt, whose cold case murder was solved in 2009, by a rogue buffalo detective
When my great aunt at the age of 91 was beaten to death in her home with a blunt instrument and thrown down the basement stairs, in 1993 ,
The police never labeled her case as a homcide until 2007, I remember how angry my family got, all we heard from them she should have moved out for her safety, well she had the right to live in her home the same home she grew up in without fear.
My point is in comparison to the Coker case , I seriously believe that the police had a mindset in the beginning days she ran away, the open marriage crap, my personal feeling that the crime scene was not taken seriously, in and out, then quickly labeling their POI a suspect before they were ready to proceed, and I think they bet the farm on the searches producing a body.
I remember the rogue detective who solved our case what caught his attention was not labeling it a homicide 1993-2007, so basically they made us feel like her death was a waste of time because she was 91.
This is why I see this case going to the cold file...