“I suspect that the authorities had the family in their sights as suspects in that murder and needed to make the case.”
The girl’s body was a few blocks away from her home! For how many months? We aren’t talking about searching the nation, or acres of forest (like in Eric Rudolph’s case). We are talking about a wooded lot in her own neighborhood. And my dad’s point was how many man hours were put on searching cars for suspected pot when the hours could have been better spent searching for her body which might have had better evidence to get a surer conviction out of her murderer. No tissue left means no cause of death since no bones broken. Not that there were thousands of hours used for searching for pot, or booking for pot or guarding roadside cleanup of convicted pot dealers/users. But even 100 hours might have helped.
I understand what his point was. Pull the deputies off petty crap and put them to better use, you know? He just used the most recent ridiculous case brought to mind to make his point.
The drug squad and the manhunt forensics are different departments.
However President Clinton had the FBI resources (not just one department in one city) focused on a non-existent “rash” of “racist” church fires in the South. This at the same time that the 9-11 hijackers were in America training for their deadly mission.