Community Chat

[WSfan]

I am very familiar with this incident, as I live in the state where this occurred, and did watch the news conference this morning. Something smelled fishy about a week and a half or so after his death. Didn't expect to hear that this 'upstanding police officer' had been actually eembezzling money from the children's group that he ran, and apparently for many years. Did he not think that he would get caught sooner or later? Then he was a dope. Apparently he was starting to feel the heat and knew he would be found out and probably serve jail time, so he did what he felt was necessary.

What I don't understand is the anger towards the investigators this morning by the media. No one in their right mind would blurt out information without enough facts to back it up. We, the public, do not need to know EVERYTHING about what they are investigating. I feel that 2 months is not a very long time to gather information about this crook, and apparently there was at least 7 years of information to look through; emails, bank statements, computer files, etc.

Could it be that the people of Fox Lake are now mad as heck because they gave this guy a send off worthy of a war hero, with thousands of people showing up and police officers from all over the country, only to find out that he was a fraud?

I sure hope that his wife and sons didn't know what he was up to. They may pay for his dishonesty in the end.

[WSfan]

The coronor said that he couldn't make a determination on cause of death until he received the report from the investigators, and that happened on Monday. They determined the cause of death just this week.The coronor could determine how he died, but not why until they put everything together.

[scatcat]

I live fairly close to this city and have followed this case. I watched the announcement this morning. The officials seemed 1. Peeved and  2. Defensive that reporters were asking why they took so long to come out with suicide and why they were so adamant it was a homocide.  I read the FBI came and went within a day because it was so obvious it was a suicide. The police knew immediately he was shot with his own gun. And the fact that the police weren't telling locals to lock their doors, schools, be on the look out for 3 killers a week after the incident was clear they knew he killed himself. BUT there is more to the story with the theft etc, which took them time to sort thru. So much more will come out soon 

[Tique]

@Mz iMac You are welcome. The first thing that clicked with me that something wasn't quite right was why would a single officer pursue three suspects on his own and at first refuse backup when it was offered. As a 30-year veteran, he should have known better. That seemed like something a young "hotshot" trying to make a name for himself would do.

[Puzzle Piece]

@WSfan You're correct, we don't need to know everything the investigators are uncovering.  Maybe there's a partner or two involved in the embezzlement.  Who knows?

Like those who demand to know everything about our secret military intelligence or their technology.  Most of them are low IQ folks with no real sense of the big world.  What good would it do to disclose info to folks with the IQ of worms?  Not necessary.  Keeping things confidential is done for a reason.  We want to prevail in all our attempt to keep the world free and ourselves able to defend it and us. 

[brii]

That's too bad. Desperate people make horrible decisions that affect their loved ones.

[Mz iMac]

I smell a Lifetime movie in the near future.

[chickenbutt]

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Mz iMac wrote:

I smell a Lifetime movie in the near future.

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Oh yeah!  This the perfect Lifetime movie!

[Venezia]

I hadn't heard any details of this case, only that it has been deemed a suicide.

My sympathy is with the family he left behind, to deal with the fallout.  Perhaps he thought by making it look like a homicide that it would at least leave them with some form of pension/income to live on.  It may have been his only "decent" act.

[physicsnut]

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@goldensrbest wrote:

What a shame, his wife will not get any life insurance.

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    why not?  That does not hold true anymore on most policies.