01-05-2014, 08:57 PM
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Originally posted by PaulW
"But just in the span of one day we hear from the father that police are totally helpful, then a couple hours later the mom is saying police have given little to no information?"
There are many possible explanations, e.g. that one person is being kept better informed than the other or (more likely) the press has got its facts wrong, as happens all too often.
As for the fishing boat, not everyone can be expected to act rationally when faced with a body.
Calm down.
Paul, for starters I think these are all rational questions.
Whether or not the boat that discovered the body had "concerned" reasons to leave a crime scene is simply non-negotiable from not only a legal standpoint, but a local perspective. It's a dead body. Until that odd behavior is explained and legitimized to the public community, it obviously remains a HUGE question mark, and will be viewed negatively. Until that's cleared, don't act like we shouldn't be surprised by such a weird occurrence when responding to a dead body. It's a young girls dead body, forget about your stupid warrants or whatever, much less leaving the scene of a murder which makes people question you more (exactly like what's happening now). We hope that the witnesses response can be explained and fully justified, but until then, it remains to be something worth questioning as opposed to overlooking. Just a fair assessment that would be given to any case, please respect that.
As for family members being treated differently, it is understandable that a "suspects" family would receive less input than a victims family. Yet, in just today's events on this forum combined with the statements on Los Angeles media, members of Brittany's family (victims family only) have given contradicting reports on how helpful or helpless the local police have been. I honestly believe Julie's statements with the media, just my opinion.
With so many twists and turns in this case, I'm sure both families have had to swap back and forth about what they can believe, and who can they trust. It's totally understandable, but there are some very serious contradictions recently stated that should be clarified given the attention of this case.