(yeah, except they were accomplices in a crime, a murder).
A few years down the road, someone should interview the men and women of his department. Here's a 2003 quote from an officer of the law, who was involved in guarding Nancy Cruzan.
"[Nancy Cruzan, three days before her death from starvation] turned and looked at me and stared at me with a panicky look, sweating profusely, and the thought I had was, she was thinking, Oh, heres a policeman, hell help me. But we werent allowed to do that,"...Doug Seneker