afitzy
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Agree with your logic on this topic.We know that RCMP needed 3 days to identify the victims. That is a very long time in terms of solving a crime. I'm pretty sure that the coroner sorted out that they were shot as soon as he was with the bodies.
From my perspective, the delay in identification of the victims gave the teens an huge head start, and changed the nature and scope of the investigation.
The press did jump on the story relatively quickly and some of the more intrepid journalists asked about the possiblity of a serial killer and this put the RCMP on alert and perhaps it also stopped them from releasing any information early in the process as this seems to be their default MO. It wasn't really until the press started talking about public safety of tourists and residents that more info started to be shared but it was in drips and drabs.
Going back and reading the initial articles on the 'missing' story, I truly wonder if RCMP knew earlier than we might even be giving them credit for about what they were dealing with in this case? It seems like RCMP came up the missing narrative in this case and not the families of the 2 suspects. The reason I wonder this is because we have no evidence that any of the family of either of the two suspects ever filed missing reports or even contacted RCMP or local police in BC. We just have the early statements of BS father talking about his son being missing and perhaps heading to the woods to hide, but those statements didn't sound like BS father had reported him missing either. Reading those early 'missing' articles now, it seems like the RCMP declared the two missing and then called their parents/family to confirm. MOO but going back and reading these articles again left me seeing now that from the beginning this wasn't a missing case.
I am curious though about why the RCMP made the choices they did in terms of the info flow to the public as if I recall there was another delay that lasted until the 2nd Press Briefing when the RCMP made the statement that 'gun violence' was involved.
So you have the initial ID delay and another COD delay that related IMO clearly to public safety issues.