ELOCsoul
Verified Author - "Finding Jacob Wetterling"
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Welcome back to Websleuths DR. Some of the things you said and the actions you took on the night of the kidnapping didn't help you. LE should have listened more to the tracker Steve Mund. Hopefully you will find an agreement with LE and the public. I can guarantee you we are all learning.
The real key to me in the suit is this: Did the FBI have enough print evidence in the print field to 99.9% put Heinrich at the crime scene? If they did, why did SCSD not act on the evidence and why did they instead name Dan as the POI? If they did not think they had good print eveidence, why? Was the print field too contaminated due to poor crime scene security? Did the DA not realize or not think that print evidence was admissible? Did the FBI keep their mouths shut all these years because they did not want to openly criticize SCSD and risk being considered a pariah by the LE community and not be invited in on cases? What did Steve Mund know about the prints and when did he know it? Why did SCSD not take advantage of offers from print subject matter experts? If I were Dan's attorney, these would be questions I would be asking.
We were not all fooled. Several of us on WS never believed DR was the perp and we were right all along
Here is a link to a video of the press conference where attorneys for Dan Rassier and Ryan Larson preview their forthcoming lawsuits
https://youtu.be/-kd6E5Vxw24
The cold spring investigation was horrible, at least Larson seems to have a decent attorney. How can they still have Larsons property? Nothing ties him to the crime, and everything points to the man that hung himself. Sheriff Sanner is at the heart of the trouble in Larsons case, Rassiers case, and not to forget-Joshua Guimonds case. In fact when the parents in Guimonds case got a little frustrated, Sanners little helpers told them "noone tells the sheriff how to run his department" well guess what, you work for us and yes we will tell you how to run it. Sanners old school rule of hard nose and rough neck are from the days of old, and it needs a fix.
I can't watch video where I live. The net is not strong enough. Is that a synopsis of what is on the video?
The real key to me in the suit is this: Did the FBI have enough print evidence in the print field to 99.9% put Heinrich at the crime scene? If they did, why did SCSD not act on the evidence and why did they instead name Dan as the POI? If they did not think they had good print eveidence, why? Was the print field too contaminated due to poor crime scene security? Did the DA not realize or not think that print evidence was admissible? Did the FBI keep their mouths shut all these years because they did not want to openly criticize SCSD and risk being considered a pariah by the LE community and not be invited in on cases? What did Steve Mund know about the prints and when did he know it? Why did SCSD not take advantage of offers from print subject matter experts? If I were Dan's attorney, these would be questions I would be asking.
That's about it...in a nutshell.Tuesday's press conference was very interesting. It gave a preview of the forthcoming lawsuits being brought by Dan Rassier and Ryan Larson against Stearns County investigators as well as the BCA.
Several points that did not make the media, as far as I can tell:
1. Dan's attorney presented a strong case that Heinrich should have been charged with Jared's abduction in 1990 or before. He stated that the mountain of evidence against Heinrich would have easily brought a conviction, and with that conviction the tire and shoe print evidence would have been strong enough to charge and convict Heinrich for Jacob's case then as well. He downplayed the claims made by LE of a non-scientific match.
2. The FBI had Heinrich pretty well sown up but that Stearns County attorney Roger VanHeel sided with SCSO and their apparent hissy fit with the FBI.
3. That Stearns made no substantial progress toward securing evidence against Heinrich after the FBI left the case in Feb 1990.
4. He credited the FBI with solving the case within days of taking it over in late 2014. He cited the following as keys to triggering the solving of the case: Patty asking for a review of the case, Robert Dudley providing the Hart Notes to FBI agent Shane Ball and specifically naming Heinrich as the likely abductor, Shane Ball for quickly and accurately refocusing the case, Madeleine Baran and her In The Dark series, and Joy and Jared for bringing the Paynesville cases to the public's attention.
5. He cited news media coverage and the 2nd and 3rd editions of my Wetterling book as paving the way to identifying problems with the investigation and overall history of the case.
6. Dan Rassier had harsh words for investigators and took some shots at Patty Wetterling as well, although he acknowledged that she was manipulated by SCSO. He got emotional when talking about how McDonald dragged his mother out of the kitchen.
7. Ryan Larson's attorney is a national civil rights lawyer from Pennsylvania. He was well spoken and said that there are members of SCSO and BCA who are not fit to serve.
That's about it...in a nutshell.
I wonder what will be revealed about him i the tiips that were sent in
There will be lots, and it'll all be stuff that SCSO used to fit their tunnel-vision theory of the crime that was born in 2003/2004. It'll be as much nonsense as the emotionally-driven, lack of logic thinking that led so many people down the Duane Hart rabbit hole beginning in 2013.