If you read the whole article it states that police arrived on the scene whithin 12 minutes of the first call and that no neighbors were present. The statment by the deputy DA is second hand and refers to the point in time when detectives arrived which was 3 hours later. Why do you think Suann Adams would not tell the truth?
Can you copy and paste that statement from the article for me? Don't bother if it's the statement from Suann Adams......I don't consider that to be an "official statement." What I am interested in seeing is an official statement from LE, retracting their initial reports.
As for Suann Adams......I don't know her. I don't know if she would lie or not.
Second hand from whom? The article I'm reading shows it as a direct quote. Where does it say that he is referring to the detectives who arrived 3 hours later? In the quote I provided, he simply refers to "the police." If you have a different source than the Deseret News article on 09/07/02, please post a link......I'd like to read it.
Thank you for making that clear, Sandude. We all need to do as you did, and read the WHOLE article, not just some piece of it.
I've never paid much attention to the furor about whether it was the police, or the neighbors, who were summoned first--or to the questions about Ed running around the neighborhood "leaving his family unprotected."
As for the possibility of neighbors being told b/f police were called, I think in that situation, I'd make darned sure my teenager wasn't at some neighbor's house, or hadn't gone out running, b/f I alerted the police. I'd probably doubt the story about the man at first, thinking my 9-yr-old was probably freaked out and confused. I have occasion to call the police every now and then, but I wouldn't want them to think I was some crackpot who always went off the deep end immediately.
I'd have been in constant motion, carrying a cellphone if possible, searching for my child in the neighborhood, either by car or on foot, but in the back of my mind I'd have been saying, "Your child has been out of your sight before, you were worried about it, it always turned out all right, it's gonna be all right this time, too."
As for the notion that Ed "left his family unprotected," there was a teenaged boy, older than Elizabeth, there, and Lois is not some cripple. If they own a gun, she could hold the thing as easily as could Ed.