Glad that Bob Nuelle explained how Crime Stopper's [HOU] tip line works. I wasnt aware of a lot of this info.
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The best thing that anyone could do if they think they know something is dial 713-222 - tips [8477]
and register that tip. And one of the things that I I think is really
important for folks to understand for that Crimestoppper system to work the
preservation of anonymity is at the core of it.
And so for instance, they don't have caller ID.
They don't know who called them. They have no and the tips are taken by law enforcement.
And the thing about it is they give you a number, you know, your tip 407, okay?
And that tip is passed on to the detective in the case.
And if that detective, when the case solves and they have a Crimestoppers reward on it,
they contact the detective and they say, "Did any Crimestoppers tip provided break the case for you?"
And he says, "Oh yes, tip 407 did it. Okay, then their board of directors
meets on a monthly basis and they fund those tipsters.
But guess what?
They don't know who they are. They have no way of knowing.
So they tell people when you get your tip number that when you hear that the case is solved,
call us back and say, "Hi, I was tip 407 on the Liz Barraza case."
and they will tell you your tip was recognized by law enforcement.
You need to go to a bank. They'll tell you which bank. I'm not going to say which bank. You need to go to a bank next
Tuesday and identify yourself as tip 407 and they'll hand you a cashier's check
made out to cash for your tip amount.
Wow. I never knew that's how it worked. That's so cool.
Even the bank doesn't know who you are. My understanding is that for Liz, the
whatever you want to call it, reward, right?
The reward money is pretty high now, right? $50,000. $50,000. It's nothing that's nothing to
cashier's check straight, right? I mean, ultimately, here's what it comes down to. It's not $50,000
for a conviction. It's $50,000 for a tip that leads to the arrest and or charging
of an individual. Just an arrest. Yeah. Yeah.
And they may decide, for instance, like if you called up and you said, "Oh,
it's Mr. Magoo." Uh, and they had 25 other people that said it's Mr. Magoo
that had similar evidence, they're going to split that reward.
But if you call in and you mention something that is not
public knowledge, you call in and give them a tip that law enforcement is able to really use to narrow it down and get
to a suspect, get an arrest warrant, and get somebody in handcuffs, that reward is going to go claimed. And
and that's what we live for. I want that money. I mean, we raised 30,000 of that
money ourselves. I want that money to go to someone who took the risk of turning
in these heartless animals that killed my daughter because I recognize that there's a risk.
You know, these guys clearly are not afraid to kill anyone they feel like killing.
And if you're willing to to believe in the anonymity and come forward and break this case, I will never know who you
are. But I I will pray for you until the day I die because that's an
extraordinary piece of courage. And that's really what we're hoping for is we're hoping
that someone will call the tip line and drop the tip that breaks his case.
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