[george wythe]

The Sheriff and the District Attorney claimed yesterday that they had sealed the facts about this case.

Apparently, they e-mailed several journalists a copy of all the police files before they "sealed" the file.

[longtermmemmory]

if true that zaps the "not timmed" claims the police and DA were making. It only takes a dumb move like that to impune a case. dumb. They should have kept their emails to themselves.

[discostu]

These look more like the good old fashioned kind of leak: beer. Cops hang out in particular bars, journalists that cover cops also hang out in those bars, poor a couple beers in one of the cops and eventually the cop will utter the money sentence: "you wouldn't believe the sh!t we found." People that know stuff other people don't, especially really interesting far out stuff, they WANT to tell it. One of the oldest rules of social engineering is that the fastest way to get somebody to blab something is to tell them it's a secret. In high profile strange cases like this you'll get a lot of these leaks for about 2 weeks after the arrest, then it dries up as the number of people "in the know" drops too low to be able to blab without getting in trouble.