They say that the biggest problem with jury trials these days is that thanks to all the DNA-heavy shows on television the average TV viewer expects to be presented with a mountain of evidence before they are convinced of a man's guilt. Well, I am starting to think the police are watching these shows as well and are getting wrapped up in the concept that you need to be extra tricky to catch criminals. I mean, this really does sound like something that would happen on an episode of "Cold Case". And on top of that it sounds like they made things more complicated than it had to be. As you may imagine the nephew is rather upset about learning that the police had been following him, collecting his trash and says that if they police had simply asked him he would have been happy to provide them with a sample. (I have my doubts about this. I don't care how estranged he may have been from his uncle, at some point he would want the story to go away and this was sure to bring it back up.) But if you want to give the nephew the benefit of the doubt it just shows the police didn't even try to take the obvious route. I appreciate it when police are willing to take the extra step to get justice, but they really should try the simple solution first. Apparently none of the classes at the police academy teach you that you'll never get the answer you want unless you ask the right question first.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Doing Things The Hard Way
Even though the Massachusetts legal system is already dealing with the Whitey Bulger trial, the Boston Marathon bombing trial and the upcoming Aaron Hernandez trial apparently that isn't enough, because someone in the district attorney's office decided now was the perfect time to bring back on of the most notorious crimes in Boston's history, the Boston Strangler case. For those of you who may not be from around here, the Boston Strangler killed 11 women back in the 1960s and terrorized the city until a man named Edward DeSalvo was arrested and confessed to the murders. However, he later recanted his confession and was killed in prison before he had his re-trial. Thus, there are plenty of people who think DeSalvo was not the real Strangler (or at least was not the killer for every victim) and just a fall-guy because the police were desperate to solve the case. In an effort to quiet the conspiracy theorists the medical examiner exhumed DeSalvo's body on Friday to try get a DNA sample which would definitely link him to the final victim. But, the part of the story I found interesting was that before they dug up the body the police tried to make a connection using a member of DeSalvo's family, specifically his nephew. Rather than going to the nephew and asking him for a DNA sample the police decided to follow him around and waited until he threw away something that would have his DNA on it and collected the sample from that.
They say that the biggest problem with jury trials these days is that thanks to all the DNA-heavy shows on television the average TV viewer expects to be presented with a mountain of evidence before they are convinced of a man's guilt. Well, I am starting to think the police are watching these shows as well and are getting wrapped up in the concept that you need to be extra tricky to catch criminals. I mean, this really does sound like something that would happen on an episode of "Cold Case". And on top of that it sounds like they made things more complicated than it had to be. As you may imagine the nephew is rather upset about learning that the police had been following him, collecting his trash and says that if they police had simply asked him he would have been happy to provide them with a sample. (I have my doubts about this. I don't care how estranged he may have been from his uncle, at some point he would want the story to go away and this was sure to bring it back up.) But if you want to give the nephew the benefit of the doubt it just shows the police didn't even try to take the obvious route. I appreciate it when police are willing to take the extra step to get justice, but they really should try the simple solution first. Apparently none of the classes at the police academy teach you that you'll never get the answer you want unless you ask the right question first.
They say that the biggest problem with jury trials these days is that thanks to all the DNA-heavy shows on television the average TV viewer expects to be presented with a mountain of evidence before they are convinced of a man's guilt. Well, I am starting to think the police are watching these shows as well and are getting wrapped up in the concept that you need to be extra tricky to catch criminals. I mean, this really does sound like something that would happen on an episode of "Cold Case". And on top of that it sounds like they made things more complicated than it had to be. As you may imagine the nephew is rather upset about learning that the police had been following him, collecting his trash and says that if they police had simply asked him he would have been happy to provide them with a sample. (I have my doubts about this. I don't care how estranged he may have been from his uncle, at some point he would want the story to go away and this was sure to bring it back up.) But if you want to give the nephew the benefit of the doubt it just shows the police didn't even try to take the obvious route. I appreciate it when police are willing to take the extra step to get justice, but they really should try the simple solution first. Apparently none of the classes at the police academy teach you that you'll never get the answer you want unless you ask the right question first.
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