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I should point out, the boys were found three blocks from our house. I've been a resident of Kirkwood for 35 years, have some knowledge of the situation (Devlin was a fixture of the Imo's Pizza Parlor three blocks away for 20 years and delivered pizzas when help didn't show, worked at the funeral home where my mother and grandmother were buried from). You may all speculate until the facts are presented, but the fact remains Devlin will not go free, the Kirkwood police did not have the apartment complex under surveillance for two days, Kirkwood is not a simple working class community, most homes are in the $500,000 to Million dollar and above (this was a pocket of old, old 50's apartments on what used to be the outskirts of town). It is an isolated area surrounded by light industry and the police are well-intentioned nicely dressed process servers who still believe Kirkwood is populated by charming country club members with extraordinary educations and professorships at the several local universities. You all need to wait to see what unravels.

This isn't a made-for t.v. movie folks. It's a very complex, very difficult thing to explain, but our police department isn't Miami Vice or Columbo or Law and Order. It's a suburban, charming set of officers who are very good at the limited law enforcement they are most often required to do -- they are not detectives. Trust me, we learned the hard way.