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Police nix search for murder victim's body

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by alleyallen, Mar 23, 2007.

  1. PHINJ

    PHINJ Active Member

    I understand the potential racial aspects to the story, but you do realize there were extenuating circumstances in these two examples, right?

    Laci Peterson was a missing pregnant woman; Scott Peterson was convicted of two counts of murder. And I don't imagine that $250,000 in taxes were spent to find the body; it washed up on shore.

    Chandra Levy was connected to a very high-ranking politician who was suspected by some to have a hand in her disappearance.
     
  2. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    The city/county spent money looking for Laci Peterson. They actively searched for her for weeks when she first disappeared.
     
  3. PHINJ

    PHINJ Active Member

     
  4. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    I have no idea. But that's not really the point.
     
  5. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    If you know what dumpster the body was thrown in, you can get a pretty good idea where that dumpster was unloaded.
     
  6. Idaho

    Idaho Active Member

    That's what the folks in SLC thought with Lori Hacking when her husband shot her and dumped her in the trash.

    After about four months of searching they finally found her in an area of the landfill not remotely close the spot the garbage truck was scheduled to be dumping trash that day.
     
  7. alleyallen

    alleyallen Guest

    Except that in this case, the guy is now claiming he put her body parts in different Dumpsters, and at least two different dump sites have been identified. Also, the trash from those areas has already been dumped twice, hence the thought she might be beneath 40,000 tons (each site gets about 6,000 tons added per day).
     
  8. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Did I say it would be easy?
     
  9. PHINJ

    PHINJ Active Member

    Actually, it is. The police stopped the search because it would cost too much. See the connection?
     
  10. alleyallen

    alleyallen Guest

    I never implied you did, Ace. Nor did I say they shouldn't search.

    But if you consider how much trash has been dumped at both sides, it could indeed make the search very difficult.

    Take it easy, Ace. I'm not attacking you.
     
  11. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    I don't know that race matters in terms of how the police conduct the investigation, but race DOES matter, in my opinion, in the amount of pressure the public puts on the police and elected officials, and that pressure determines how the police conduct their investigation. If this were a 19-year-old white girl, it would be on MSNBC, CNN and Fox on a continuous loop, and that public pressure would force the police to get knee-deep in trash until they found her body.

    So we can blame good ol fashion "Tex-us" racism, but the press plays a role too.
     
  12. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    OK. I will call off the black helicopters.

    If the cops wanted to find the body, they could find the body. Or at least parts.

    All I'm saying.
     
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