Posted on 09/19/2021 6:37:34 PM PDT by conservative98
"The news about Gabby Petito is heartbreaking. The Laundrie family prays for Gabby and her family,"
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Well, take it up with the chief of police there. He makes the decisions as to how his resources are ordered.
The guilty verdict was likely based on the young girl's blood and hair found in Westerfield's RV. The child porn they found didn't help him much, either.
Resources?
It will take 20x the resources for the FBI to locate Laundrie than the
cost of the Surveillance by the local Police.
I suspect that a small-jurisdiction police chief is probably rather averse to horning-in on an FBI case when he hasn’t been invited; especially when he has his own issues to deal with. (The Freepers may be fixated on this case, but it’s one of thousands that police departments are dealing with all over the country.)
And I’m sure the Chief appreciated a call from someone who doesn’t even live in his state, telling him how to do his job - someone who only knows what he reads on the internet or sees on TV.
(Do you believe that the FBI was not in contact with the NP police early in the game? I don’t think things work that way.)
I like the reviews I’ve seen of some of the Reefs - but i wouldn’t buy them on Amazon; a number of reviewers there seem to believe that those are not real.
I will check out your ‘preferreds’. I don’t like my ‘piglets’ (as SheepWhisperer calls them) enclosed.
Your thinking is very mechanical.
Context is everything. You can’t isolate a couple of sentences from a conversation and declare ‘non sequitur’.
You need better programming.
The FBI was not involved when Gabby was reported missing on the 11th.
Get your facts straight. Only later did the FBI get involved.
BTW, it will cost not 20x but 100x the resources it would have cost
had the Police simply had visible surveillance of the Laundrie home.
Well, when it happens again and you aren’t satisfied, then YOU go and ‘surveil’.
But don’t expect a police department to operate as YOU think they should with regard to their own resources and local needs.
Heh. So true. :)
I feel sorry for the parents for now. Unless they are obstructing, what should they do? In some ways they are a victim as well. Sometimes your child does extremely evil things. Doesn’t mean it is their fault.
Huh? Tevas are verboten for conservatives? I didn’t get the memo. Bought two pairs even.
For all you know they might be helping law enforcement at every turn.
Bass Pro is where my Marxist group holds our monthly meeting. I always make coffee cake... ; )
Perfect post.
Tevas are great - among the most comfortable sandals I’ve worn, and never needed any breaking-in (I have sensitive feet.)
Yes.
It drives me nuts how people here always think they know what’s going on behind the scenes.
I’m not so sure.
He could have told his parents that she hooked-up with another guy and told him to get lost.
We need to stop acting as if, according to our own lights, we know what actually went on.
Westerfield-van Dam case
“The guilty verdict was likely based on the young girl’s blood and hair found in Westerfield’s RV. The child porn they found didn’t help him much, either.”
Blood and hair:
Short answer:
Evidence must be proved valid and can’t have an innocent explanation. The evidence you mention fails those tests.
Short explanation:
There was just one small drop of blood, which was not photographed or measured, and just three hairs, only one of which was nuclear DNA matched to her. The RV was often parked (and unlocked) in the streets very close to her house. She was often in the streets in very close proximity to it (walking to school, to the park, to her friend, even just playing) and could have briefly snuck into it. And of course she had innocently been in his house just a couple of days prior - Locard transfer.
Child porn:
Short answer:
There wasn’t any.
Short explanation:
If there had been any child porn, he’d have been charged under a child porn statute: he wasn’t. Several members of law enforcement said it wasn’t child porn, but this testimony wasn’t allowed. Photos of a teenage girl sunbathing in her bikini were shown in court in an attempt to prove he was sexually attracted to a 7-year-old.
Comment:
The media was very superficial in their coverage of the Westerfield-van Dam case, they didn’t ask pertinent questions which would have cast serious doubt on the prosecution case. For example, they - like the police - ignored foreign blood on the bed she was abducted from, and ignored foreign hair found under her body. That’s inexcusable. Brian Laundrie certainly appears guilty from the reports I’ve seen, but I hope the media at least try to be fair to him.
Yea I think police chiefs from around the country usually just sit around their desks all day wondering how to do their jobs and how to allocate resources. So those anonymous posters from the internet really help them out. Soon as they get an email they send out a 3 man team to watch the house 24/7 just in case he someday becomes a suspect. LOL.
Have they listed a cause of death for Gabby yet?
Love my Sanuks. Been wearing them many years.
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