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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Brilliant police work
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 14:13:53 -0000 (UTC)
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The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>Thu, 9 May 2024 18:46:06 -0400, Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>:

>>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.