Some random Tik-Tokkers & YouTubers seem destined to achieve more in a homicide case than the FBI and various police forces. The bureaucratic machine goes 'kerplunk'.
https://twitter.com/KFCBarstool/status/1439719036087152644
If you have cable TV, you periodically have these quite bonkers American criminal cases come into the news feed, in which the very likely criminal acts and their perpetrator is mostly ignored by police in favour of doing nothing under the pretext of 'well, s/he has rights'.
Girl & Guy are gf/bf ... go away in her vehicle on long road trip. Girlfriend is then not heard of for days. The boyfriend arrives home, driving her car, but without her. He was last person seen with her. Nothing is done. Her body later found, coroner says homicide. Bf at large.
Meanwhile the family of the very suspicious boyfriend - still only a 'person of interest' as ockham's razor is a dull blade at the FBI, it seems - got to throw various red herrings at the police, which they duly followed, given the boyfriend a few days start on his fleeing arrest
The deceased girl's various father(s) seem able to make their presence felt on TV but during her tragic life, never quite able to actually protect their clearly immature & emotionally incontinent daughter from a drifting guy with "deadbeat" flashing in a neon sign above his head.
In most first world countries, policing incompetence of this kind is usually because of bribery/connections. In the US, seeing the lethargic pursuit by the FBI of the obvious, it seems just torpor & honest incompetence born of a certain trepidation at enforcing the criminal law.
The saddest part of this case is the victim was a clearly very immature & perhaps special needs girl who was failed by every person & institution that she should have been able to rely on: police, her father(s) (the mess of 'co-parenting'), the legal system, etal. Tragic.
Lockdown does weird things to your viewing - last one became a UK TV "Escape to the Country" & "Long Lost Family" marathon, this one, really weird & also really obvious American crime. A proper crossover would be Inspector Morse being brought to the US to clean up 'cold cases'.
Clearly, this case will never be solved unless more YouTubers and Tik-Tokkers come forward ... as the FBI is clearly absolutely useless.
https://twitter.com/9NewsSyd/status/1440815287910092810
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