Either it's just another attempt to throw the witness off balance or these people are total nit wits.
Or neither! Listen, this is one instance where the wildcard excuse of "cops lie" might--and I hold pretty strong reservations--be the case. Tom Haney is a policeman, a homicide detective. He's probably used that tactic in the past. But let's take a CLOSE look at this.
Tom Haney is widely described as one of the finest homicide detectives in the country. I'm sure if you asked people who know him, "nit wit" is not the first word that comes to mind.
There's also the whole deal with him and Mary Lacy, but we'll get to that later!
They have this VERY IMPORTANT report somewhere, but they just don't know where.
No, that's NOT what he said. Like I just said, Haney is no fool. He knows you have to keep your cards close to your vest. I honestly don't see what your problem is with that, Murri. Indeed, maybe if the DA's office had done that instead of giving everything away to the Rs,
this case would be solved already!
I have no reason to doubt him, Murri. You keep arguing that this evidence doesn't exist, but were you there? We KNOW that the materials he's talking about exist, because they were presented to the assembled panel in June of 1998, right about this same time.
BUT regardless of not being able to find it or prove it, they just casually dropped it like a bombshell on the mother of a murdered child,
Yes, they did! Good thing, too, because they got some interesting stuff out of it. I won't go into the whole thing right now, but if you haven't seen the actual video of this exchange, Murri, you really can't get the whole picture. If a cop told me that my daughter had been abused sexually by some creep, I'd turn into the Hulk. That's not what happened here.
Patsy stays completely calm. Her voice does not alter its pitch or timbre. She's completely flat, with all the emotion of a toothpaste commercial. Now, if you want to tell us that doesn't mean anything, you're certainly welcome to do so. But I believe it about as far as I can throw an elephant by the trunk!
and asked her to speculate on who might have been interferring with her daughter! Sure!!
Wouldn't YOU ask her that? I'm deadly serious; this is probably the most important evidence in the entire case. If you thought she could give you something to follow up on, would YOU keep it to yourself?
It's been speculated by some that Haney was trying to knock PR off-balance. That he was giving her an opportunity to save herself by implicating JR or BR. Maybe he was. But it's just as likely he was giving her a legitimate out. Wouldn't you say?