TN - Karen Swift, 44, murdered, Dyersburg, 30 Oct 2011 *husband charged in 2022* #4

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[cocomod]

Poor Karen! I feel like this is another case where LE waited too long to search her residence and missed possible clues. I feel so much for her mom! She deserves to see justice for her daughter

 

[Silverstorm]

Wow! I can NOT believe it!

 

[Tragg]

This looks like a case in which community opinion was inflamed from the beginning and sustained over time, ultimately forcing the prosecutor to bring charges he could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt. The evidence just wasn't there.

Investigators appear to have made mistakes from the beginning that were obvious to the public, and the politics of deflecting blame and attention to the prosector for refusing to file a "good case" led to this result. Now, unless an appeal reinstates the case the husband can't be charged - even if compelling evidence against him turns up.

Sounds like the Alabama case against him is pretty thin, too. But his life is ruined, whether he's guilty of that charge or not.

 

[Silverstorm]

Does anyone believe the alternate theories of Karens murder posted by Heather Cohen the PI?

 

[Tragg]

Does anyone believe the alternate theories of Karens murder posted by Heather Cohen the PI?

I think the evidence for a criminal charge is not there - against anyone. There's enough to support various opinions under the First Amendment, I guess, but not more.

One can only speculate whether the outcome would be different if the search that followed Karen's disappearance had found her. I have no clue why it failed to do so. One can only speculate whether the security videos at the Holloween party would have shown something important if they had been retrieved promptly, but they were stolen. Clearly, mistakes were made. Were they critical? IDK.

This is terribly sad. Karen wasn't a perfect person but no one is. She deserves justice, and her family does too.

 

[Silverstorm]

This is Operation Exchange Private Investigator Heather Cohen Podcast. “Anything that led away from David Swift did not make it into the file.”
Operation Exchange

 

[Tragg]

This is Operation Exchange Private Investigator Heather Cohen Podcast. “Anything that led away from David Swift did not make it into the file.”
Operation Exchange

Confirmation bias and tunnel vision have been the defense arguments since the sheriff announced that all alternatives had been cleared, and that his investigators couldn't get Swift to talk to them. The suggestion that DS must be guilty if he wouldn't talk, having been identified as the DSO's prime suspect, was seriously problematic IMO, in terms of Swift's Constitutional rights. Didn't see it raised though - probably because of the lapse of time between the statement and the charge.