[kitkat]

“... was last arrested in 1996.”

Notice the word “LAST.”

I suspect the widow is not telling everything about her deceased husband.

[Kartographer]

"I suspect the widow is not telling everything about her deceased husband."

You are most likely right, but even if you are what makes it right for the police to continue coming into her home looking for a man 8 years dead? The guy was as you point out not a saint, but to defend the cops on this because she didn't come out an say her husband was no good doesn't justify in anyway way the Cops incompetence.