Kids were missing for three hours before the parents called the cops. Took 7 minutes from the time CPD got the call to get to the house. Primary officer took info, backup started preliminary search. Camden PD called in the Camden County Sherriff (3 dogs) and the Cherry Hill PD Bloodhound.
Two CPD officers looked in car. No evidence of anyone even being remotely near car and car appears not to have been disturbed for sometime.
CCSD and CHPD dogs were in close enough proximity to the car to get a hit. They never did. CHPD bloodhound tracked scent to the Delaware River. Scent picked up a hundred feet or so from car. CCSD gets dive team in the water.
Two days later, dad nonchalantly moseys on over to car and pops trunk and bingo, kids are there. Let me add that the trunk was cracked open. Dad just pulled it up. No keys, no prying, and no popping it from inside the car. Wonder how that exactly happened?
CCSD and CHPD have dogs re-tested just in case. Dogs hit every single time during tests.
My neighbor is a CCSD officer and spent 18 hours OT looking for the kids, along with almost every off-duty CCSD officer and all of CHPD dog handlers.
No way is CPD, or CCSD responsible.
You don't know what you are talking about
Ask your cop friends if they would include the trunk when searching a car.
Just because you have competent police friends that were on site does not mean that the officer who "searched" this car didn't screw up.
Imagine you were a small business owner like me. You tell one employee to turn off the machine so another one can clear it. And the employee comes back and turned off all the switches, except one. And the first employee gets seriously hurt.
Does it matter how good all the other employees are that work at your company? No, it only matters how badly this one employee screwed up.
If your friends are half as dedicated and thorough as you claim, its too bad THEY didn't search the car.