You can’t catch what you’re not looking for...
Nov 29, 2017 0:30:14 GMT
trabuco and findons like this
Post by oldguy on Nov 29, 2017 0:30:14 GMT
This case was very solveable in 76-78 when the EAR spree in Sacramento was in full force. Sac LE miserably failed then. The ONS was much much harder to catch, this was an experienced offender who appeared and disappeared seemingly randomly at places hundreds of miles apart and with months or years between crimes and who most likely never had any true "real life" connection with his victims. Of course now with DNA that was a game changer. I think this crime spree is very solveable today, but the OP is right...something crucial has been missed or deliberately neglected all these years.
Both Crompton (p.174 ST) and Winters (p.98 Case Files) detail it. Shelby appears to glide over this detail.
The largest problem now is the unfortunately incomplete LE work of the mid 1970's.
As for the idea of willful concealment..no. I don't think so.
I can tell you may times OIG thought really fishy stuff in SSA was employee fraud..it just turned out to be thoughtless utter, rank incompetence. Such incompetence did things like resurrecting a dead person's record and sending out checks..or issuing a new original SSN to a criminal, who of course had an SSN. What creates that incompetence? Bad managers. So one office could be exemplary and the closest to it a cesspool.
I have come to think there were units like those cesspools in Sac LE.