Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: [OT] Brilliant police work Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 14:13:53 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 69 Message-ID: References: <20240509184606.00007f0c@example.com> <3tir3jphlts2oc6emi5g6sv5k070kogb99@4ax.com> Injection-Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 16:13:53 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="242b6682f4d6545f5c3df8d169b99dc8"; logging-data="1467509"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+7ZROeLiFVjr5HORYBlRR5p1vcGDz8Ef8=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:JkrcvU6dXmFWMOVNY9e+Q/DSkLk= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 4281 The Horny Goat wrote: >Thu, 9 May 2024 18:46:06 -0400, Rhino : >>A truck driver from Newfoundland was making a run to Ontario, stopped >>for fuel, and then went missing. The OPP (equivalent to the state >>police in a US state) made an extensive search for him but came up >>empty. Someone drove the abandoned truck back to Newfoundland. Only >>then was the trucker found - in the trailer of his own truck! >>The journalist who appears in the video actually asks the key question: >>Did police even look in the back of his truck and if they did, how did >>they fail to see him? (And, of course, if they didn't look in the >>trailer, WHY NOT?) >>https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.4220495 >>Whoever organized the search for this guy really needs to take a >>serious rip for this fiasco and, if he/sh e keeps their job, needs to >>re-take the "search for missing people" course again. >This is a repeat from a critical blunder made by police during the >Bernardo investigation some 30 years ago. >This was an Ontario case some 30 years ago where two young women were >raped and murdered by Paul Bernardo with help from his then girlfriend >Karla Homolka. In addition to the two murder victims Bernardo and >Homulka drugged Homulka's sister, Bernardo then raped the sister while >Homulka captured the whole thing on video. >The two of them then left Homulka's house leaving the unconscious >sister who as the drugs wore off started moving about while still >semi-conscious, barfed and choked on her own vomit - and suffocated. >When the police searched Homulka's house the search team included an >officer who had just transferred from the drug squad to homicide - >they had gotten a tip saying the rape of Homulka's sister had been >videoed so they tried to find the tape. In the end they didn't find >the tape which Homulka told them (among other things) the location of >the hidden tape in return for a plea bargain for manslaughter and was >given a 12 year term (and was released after a lesser period which I >forget) The former drug officer had pleaded with his sergeant to let >him search what he considered the standard hiding place for drug >searches but was told to be silent. This turned out to be where based >on Homulka's information (which she had provided as part of her plea >bargain). >The officer told this story after he retired from the Ontario >Provincial Police saying that if his sergeant had let him search they >would have found the tape and avoided the plea bargain with Homulka. Wow Lemme guess: The sergeant got further promotions. >Bernardo remains in jail serving his life sentence - and the case was >shocking enough that this will surely be a life sentence that will >never result in parole - and the officer was convinced that minus the >plea bargain Homulka would have gotten the same sentence. Yeah. She was equally guilty of most of the same crimes. >I'm pretty sure Rhino will agree this particular case was THE most >shocking case of the late 80s/early 90s in Canada. >Moral: cops aren't infallible and even if they get the search >legalities right, that doesn't mean they're going to find the goods - >sometimes with spectacular consequences. If you don't look, it's hard to find stuff in a search.