Part ~ 22 Lies And More Lies

We were on the road early the next morning, heading to Bristol Virginia. The reporter had asked us to take her and the photographer to a car rental place. She had a few leads and wanted to go out on her own for a bit. She was going to meet back up with us later. So we were on our own.

We decided to go to the Bristol Police Station first. There we talked with the 'Officer in Charge'. He was very kind, as were all the people we had come in contact with on our fact finding trip. Quite a pleasant change from what we were exposed to here in Michigan. He told us that the one young man was there in Bristol's jail and the other was in Kentucky. We didn't ask to speak with him so I don't know if we would've been able too or not. But I have been asked why we didn't. I can only speak for myself. I didn't want to be that close to either of the young men. They truly frightened me. After we spoke for a short time, the officer showed us how to get to the District Attorney's Office. Which wasn't too hard to find being it was the tallest building in Bristol, all  7 - 9 stories of it.

I remember Bristol being very pretty and their trees were flowering already. It as nice being somewhere where no one knew who we were. Or was judging us.

We were seen right away. I think the officer must have called a head to let the District Attorney know we were coming. He didn't seem surprised. At first he did seem a little put off, not really knowing what out intentions were. Then one of the other mothers spoke up and got the ball rolling. She explained briefly who we were, why we were there, and what we hope to accomplish.

He seemed to lighten up a bit then. We asked him about the atlas with the map. We told him the Prosecutor had said repeatedly in court and in the media, how uncooperative Virginia and Kentucky authorities had been about sending the map or any evidence. That they were not cooperating with Michigan at all. That the prosecutor had been quoted in the media as saying  he had tried to get a copy of the map. But was getting 'Nowhere with Virginia.'

The District Attorney was visibly getting annoyed by that. He told us that they had cooperated with everything Michigan had asked for though it wasn't much.. He then said he himself had sent a copy of the map to Michigan. It was in two parts, the second part he sent right after the first. And that there was a mark on our town indicating that the two had traveled back here.

The Prosecutor here had said they had been asking and asking for the map.From the very first time that they had found out about the two men in Kentucky. But had gotten nothing from Virginia or Kentucky. That 'his' people who he had sent down there had seen the map and it had given no indication of the two ever returning to Michigan.

More lies. How he slept at night I can only wonder.

We then asked if Michigan ever sent some blood samples of our sons or the slain young man's from Michigan? That we were told they were supposedly trying to cross match our sons blood with the blood on the bloody backpack that was found in the car of the two arrested in Kentucky. He said he had not been aware of any samples being sent or any requests.

Six weeks earlier the prosecutor had issued a warrant for blood samples to be taken from our sons. They were supposedly checking for for our sons DNA on the bloody backpack and clothes they had in Kentucky. The prosecutor had said  this in court and in the papers. Yet Again he was just simply telling more lies.

The District Attorney said there had been DNA of the Gun store clerk on the knife found in the backpack and the blood stains. There was also two other blood types that were not his.

Why if  Michigan Authorities actually thought our sons DNA would be there, did they not send the samples? Was it because the prosecutor just going through the motions again? Was he planning on lieing and saying their blood was found when actually it wasn't?  Like the Police Chief  in New Baltimore had done when he said the ballistics had been done on all the guns found down south, and that the results came back negative... but in fact weeks later the "Real" ballistics were done and the results came in which proved these two had in fact had the murder weapon? Lies and more lies.

We had been waiting for the blood test results for over six weeks. And here we come to find out that they had never even been sent. To this day we have never found out what happened to the blood that was taken. My son would like his blood back.

We then asked him if  Michigan had run the any finger prints of the two in Kentucky. He said none to his knowledge and no request were made. Three sets of prints had been found in the walk in cooler where they had killed the young man here. One was the poor young mans. The other two sets were not our sons.

The New Baltimore Police Chief was again quoted in the papers as saying.."It didn't matter if they found the prints of the two in Kentucky in the cooler, because they had worked there."  Really? I mean Really? How ridiculous! They had not supposedly worked there since 1999. The murder was in 2000. Was he saying that the Pizzeria was that filthy? That their prints would still be there after a year? If their prints were found in the cooler then it could only mean they had been there.

The one New Baltimore Police officer who was in charge of the case off and on. Was also quoted in the paper saying.."We're not sure who's prints they are. But they could be from the emergency  personal  who took care of the shot young man." Really? I ask again, Really?? Does our police dept really think that we're that stupid? Or are they? In this day and age would emergency personal go into a bloody crime scene and not wear gloves to protect themselves from AIDs or Hep C? I've seen them wearing protective goggles too. Not to mention if the emergency personal's prints were found at the crime scene would that not imply that the crime scene was then contaminated? And if the police really felt that the prints could be theirs wouldn't they want to finger print the emergency personal to either confirm or eliminate them?

Just more lies and polluted bantering to try and cover their bungling handling of this case.