It makes absolutely no sense that the FBI would lie about this after this long. The investigation is on-going based upon information provided TO the FBI. Their follow up investigation has shown that much of the informant's information is supported by other evidence. The people indicated ( I think we can call them suspects at this point) are not good people. They are being investigated because that is where the evidence has led the FBI.
Their follow up information obviously has not shown that.
If they had a single reliable witness that could withstand a mild questioning they would have gotten enough information to pursue them.
There you go , Ya'll have just witnessed a part of my charm and persistence in detective work, AKA I am Clearly unable to let things go LOL !
Amazing charm and detective work.
Thanks for being you. I have been biting my tongue and sitting on my hands because I would most likely be banned if I had responded as I wanted to. Obviously someone who was condescending and thought we needed direction and a clarification on how the law enforcement work on getting confessions in the South. Of course LE is framing the Taylors and coercing if not beating confessions out of these poor young men. Hey, that's the way it is, right? If we don't believe it, we can ask for help and receive explanations in order to better understand the "real" truth here. Oh righty then. I feel much better now and not half as silly as I was before I read all the latest.
50 years ago it would have been doable to beat confessions and extract false evidence without scrutiny.
Obviously the internet and so on has changed that.
What the evidence points to, again.
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A young girl goes to Myrtle Beach with some 'friends'.
One of the guys down there is a hustler who uses girls to do things for him. He has one or more of the girls try to arrange for him to have some time with Brittanee.
That does not go well, the details are unknown.
Then he uses either the same girl or girls or others to again arrange some kind of 'date' or whatever, but this time he has a bunch of male friends to prop him up.
Something happens and the girl is dead.
The body and so on are disposed of and all parties go forward.
One or more of the individuals then hire top flight lawyers in anticipation of problems.
The lawyer starts by sowing confusion about the name of one person, to hinder investigation.
Then a more complicated project involving 'discovering' a new suspect, totally away from the clientele of the lawyer.
A large sum of money is spent hiring a specific group. Their signature is known to a lot of people.
That group then scours the region for recent cases that fit the requirements.
They come up with the McCounaghey case and the people arrested for that.
They use their considerable leverage to get a high powered well known state law enforcer in position a week before the event. They also prepare with a number of online personas to drive conversation in a particular direction.
The attempted kidnapping happens and the rest is just clean up. A few elements don't go as planned but the project still seems on track.
Some people who are familiar with "group a" put out some notices that they do not support the operation.
The FBI is brought in to tidy it up.
Lower level FBI employees are led to believe that they are doing the community a service by promoting a discussion about racism and law or something similar.
The FBI part of the project is only to drag things out as long as there is public discussion. They have no intention of harming the people being accused for the simple reason that too many people recognized what was happening.
The people that committed the murder are largely scot free, aside from having paid probably over 100k to clean it up.
The accused in South Carolina will have to watch their backs endlessly. They will have all sorts of collateral difficulties.
Within a few years, if not already, there will be more similar murders. This time around the physical location where the people actually involved live.
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That is what the evidence points to.
edit to add
I wish well for anybody, including the people involved. I don't support the idea of endless incarceration for a teenager who kills somebody, but if he or they have money to buy themselves out of jail then they have some obligations.