I appreciate your response. I feel that TPS investigated this case for six week due to a couple of factors. First off, the family was so vocal in those early days, and given their incredible wealth, TPS knew that they would be challenged if they determined this to be a murder/suicide. That is obvious. Given the staging, it is hard to prove the MOD without doing a thorough investigation, looking for any evidence that would prove or disprove the murder/suicide theory. Secondly, botching the Millard, Babcock and McArthur cases had put an incredible amount of pressure on the department. It is my feeling that this fact in particular was key in TPS labeling this crime as a double murder. The family had already assembled a prominent team of investigators, and despite what some here may believe, they were being paid by the family to discredit the murder/suicide theory. If TPS had labeled this crime as a murder suicide, it is almost a certainty that there would have been front page news from the Greenspan team, saying that TPS incompetents had botched another case. And lets not forget that the family was using political influence as well, meeting with Wynne, Trudeau and Tory at the memorial. And be very conscious of the fact that Tory met with Saunders immediately after, specifically to discuss this case.
I believe that TPS simply made the decision to label this case a double murder and let it go cold. Simple as that. They knew that the family would be appeased and that the threat of incompetency headlines would be abated. There would be no threat to the public and the only negative would be an unsolved case on the books.
Is there evidence to support this theory? I believe so. In my opinion the fact that TPS never even eliminated people known to be at the crime scene by collecting DNA samples shows that they never really investigated this as the homicide that they were maintaining it was. Isn't that basically one of the first things you do? The fact that this task hasn't even begun, while the lead investigator has stopped working the case full time gives a pretty good indication that a murder investigation never really even began.
I read at one point that this murder investigation had severely taxed the budget of the TPS. I feel like TPS wouldn't be that irresponsible with finances if they had evidence that it was instead a murder/suicide and that no perp was at large. Even though they may have proven incompetent in a few high profile cases in the past few years, they aren't *that* incompetent, imho. So they try to keep their budget in mind, and they still get criticized. Would one really expect the head detective on the case to be doing the legwork and admin tasks, rather than delegating to a lower-paid designate? It seems there are pallets of paper to go through, and hours of video footage. Hundreds of people to interview.
Why would they care if the family or Greenspan or the media or anyone else was giving them a hard time and 'challenging' their work - facts are facts. If the facts showed that it was a murder/suicide, they would back it up and perhaps share with the family what unequivocal evidence was which led them to that conclusion (since the family would no longer be considered as potential POIs in the case). They aren't going to slap a double homicide determination on a high profile case, just because their screwups in the past have put pressure on them and they want to make sure they can get it right *this* time - so just be safe, call it murder, put it in the bottom drawer, and it will go away? That seems ridiculous imho.
You posted earlier in the thread that we would not hear anything further on this case - that the family only cared about the determination being labeled as double homicide, and now there was no use for their team of detectives. But that was wrong. You intimated earlier that police aren't really working on this case, since there is nothing to work on, but in the past couple of days it came to light that more production orders have been created. A judge has said the investigation is ongoing. It seems your earlier notions have been incorrect, but yet the allegations of lies and corruption continues.
Sometimes we have to be careful not to put our personal experiences, feelings, and baggage onto our perceptions of everything else - which is also what the police have to do, to keep open minds in order to investigate fully. Perhaps this case is above the capabilities of TPS and they require the services of the Canadian equivalent of the FBI or something to look at this one.
I have no idea why TPS, if it is true, have not processed footprints, fingerprints, palmprints, and DNA and evidence from the scene and compared it with those who were known to have been in the home most recently - perhaps this also speaks to incompetence? It sure seems like it, although it is difficult to imagine Toronto being so incompetent. Even if they have potential suspects in mind, does not excuse them from examining *all* of the evidence and doing a complete, proper investigation. Imagine if they had found evidence of someone in the home who was involved in one of Barry's many lawsuits, and that party had clearly stated it had never been in the home?
