Post by Deleted on May 30, 2015 0:05:54 GMT
I enjoyed the broadcast. Listened to it a couple hours ago and the sound was fine. I guess Mr. Zupansky made some corrections to the audio since the original broadcast. I picked up at least a few interesting tidbits of information and just hearing Shelby talk about it gave me a different sense of the case than I had previously had reading books about it and getting information from print sources. The information was often conflicting, but that gives me an idea of how confused the investigation was. Shelby himself says that things were not very well organized; that stuctural changes were just starting to happen in the police departments to make investigations more streamlined. But my sense of the whole thing is that the offender took advantage of the confusion and disarray in the PD to continue commiting crimes with impunity. It seems obvious that he listened in on police conversations over the radio, and officers were not discreet at all; he had access to tools and tactics that no previous rapist in that jurisdiction had ever employed, so the offender was able to strike repeatedly without being caught. Hell, from the way Shelby describes the way the department worked back then, I'm surprised they caught anyone for anything. Seems like the perp would have had to make a pretty big mistake to get caught, but he didn't.
What I wonder about is why he left Sacramento and moved on to Contra Costa. Something must have led him to believe that his free ride in Sac was coming to an end. He must have had a close shave that convinced him to move on, or maybe he was already moving on due to work. Of course, when he got to CCC, the cops there suffered from the same problems with disorganization and poor communication as they had in Sac. Crompton attests to this.
In the end, the most disturbing thing is the fact that the 5000 POI's who were asked to chew on gauze and cleared with a simple blood test were not actually cleared after all. Any one of them could have been the perp. But we'll never know. Because the police destroyed all that information.
What I wonder about is why he left Sacramento and moved on to Contra Costa. Something must have led him to believe that his free ride in Sac was coming to an end. He must have had a close shave that convinced him to move on, or maybe he was already moving on due to work. Of course, when he got to CCC, the cops there suffered from the same problems with disorganization and poor communication as they had in Sac. Crompton attests to this.
In the end, the most disturbing thing is the fact that the 5000 POI's who were asked to chew on gauze and cleared with a simple blood test were not actually cleared after all. Any one of them could have been the perp. But we'll never know. Because the police destroyed all that information.