Now that makes sense. Why else send someone from DC.
Phase Two of the “doing some things under the radar”, the first being Flooding Mexico with Weapons?
It seems unusally strange to announce this, if it is all as it seems. It is kind of like declaring the killer won, something apparatchiks hate to do.
I wonder if the new guy from DC is an FBI HRT guy fresh out of Delta, who is just using the cover of an attorney. If their evidence is sparse enough, LE may just be putting an undercover in place as bait, with long term surveillance and QRFs, hoping whoever did this will try for the trifecta so they can at least put a body to all of this, and begin the real investigation.
The bottom line is a bunch of 5.56 casings and a boot print on a door isn’t a whole lot of evidence, especially if the gun and boots are already disposed of. That the killer/s got away with the first one, and seem to have exploited a thunderstorm for noise cover in the second, would seem to make this look like a difficult investigation against a dangerously sharp, and maybe well-trained adversary, which would bring out all the stops.
Behavioral may also have advised that leaking publicly that the last guy got scared off offers an additional psychological incentive, of making the killer/s feel more potent. This type of psychology may find itself suddenly wanting to feed that feeling and feel it again, by surprising everybody and popping off the new guy quickly before he gets settled. Seeing more of the bunnies run and hide in the aftermath would be like a drug.
It might at least encourage the bad guys to do a quick recon of the new guy, which might get picked up by his surveillance. I’d be surprised if the guy he is replacing hadn’t already been reconned extensively, and his killing planned out, at least in general terms.
My guess is you wouldn’t want to fuck with the new guy. I wish him luck.