Cubby
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Good Lord, can someone please explain to me how this guy walked?
I had read little, and still thought Loren Schofield was the most likely suspect, but these added details go a long way toward convincing me.
I'm no cop, and claim no experience in interrogation, but why beat around the bush? Once he made incriminating, or at the very least unusual statements, why not directly ask him if he did it?
I don't see how they failed to get an indictment. Unless, of course, these factors played into it somewhat:
The witness saw a girl, not specifically mentioning Debbie, talking to a man in a white car.
It may not have been blood on the clothes turned in by LS's wife.
The pen knife turned into was ruled out as the weapon.
OK, maybe these could raise reasonable doubt in court. . . but at the very least, I would think it worthy of an attempt at convicting this .
millopedes, the information contained in the thread are all from old media articles. We have not seen any court docs which may be available via the FOIA.
Let me answer what we know about comments above.
The witness stated (according to media) he saw a girl resembling Debbie ( and IIRC wearing a coat similiar to Debbies) talking to a man in a white car. Media did not indicate he identified the girl as Debbie. Somewhere buried in the threads, LE found boot prints which ended where the witness saw Debbie which led LE to believe this was the point where she entered the car. These boot prints ended at appx the same spot the witness saw the young girl resembling Debbie talking to a man in a white car. We know nothing about the description of the car other than it was white and LS owned a white car. No info on what kind of car LS owned back then either......
We don't know if the stains on the clothing was blood or not.
IIRC the coroner or DCS (dup cty shrf) believed the pen knife was too small? to have been the murder weapon.
LS's father was at the time held an elected county position as the Wayne Township HWY commissioner. (an added note, LS's father drowned appx 1-1.5 years after Debbies murder)
hth