With officers on the way, Smart ran across the street to a home where there had been an attempted abduction years before. Moving through "a blur," Smart warned his neighbors to check their children, he said.
But....further in the article, it says ...
"But remember," Dinse continued, "at the very beginning, these officers were trying to determine what sort of case they had."
What is it? Ed is running around the neighborhood , telling people to check their kids...and THE CHIEF OF POLICE is saying they were trying to determine what kind of case they had????
What??? Did Ed tell the police E. had been taken by a man? Taken by a man with a gun? Did he say it may have been an attempted burglery? If it was an attempted burglery, would Ed run to the neighbors and tell them to check their children?????
Dinse..Ed...Dinse....Ed...this thing gets more confusing every time a new point is made in the press.
Looks to me like Ed was interviewed by the SLCT, and then Dinse was intervieewed. Why wasn't the story the same? What was the purpose of telling the "sitting in the car with the engine running" for? New evidence? This article has a wealth of information.
Also...notice the article says:Smart ran across the street to a home where there had been an attempted abduction years before.
Yet the Chief of Police says....""at the very beginning, these officers were trying to determine what sort of case they had."
Ed was telling the paper..there had been an attempted abduction there years before, and that is why he went to the neighbors...but Dinse says..THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT SORT OF CASE THEY HAD?.......Huh? Could it be AT THE TIME, Ed didn't tell him Elizabeth was missing? Laugh if you will, but going by this report, in context, the Chief of Police is saying at THIS TIME, they didn't know what kind of case they had.
If Ed had told 911 of an ABDUCTION..the WOULD HAVE KNOWN !!
Do tell, what is wrong with either statement? Why are you saying they are connected when obviously one has nothing to do with the other. LE didn't know if this was a runaway INITIALLY, an abduction, a burglary, whatever. Their job is to find out EXACTLY what happened - not take someone's word for it. LE doesn't automatically assume that Ed Smart or anyone else is telling the truth. There is nothing inconsistent in either statement.