re: Making a Murderer to get new episodes

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He did it. But, the police framed a guilty man.

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Then they got Brendan, who may or may not have been involved, and taking advantage of his borderline retardation

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I'm not too far from this position. It's not the cop's "fault" on Brendan, though. You take the tools you have - you make the case you can. It's up to the lawyers and judges to regulate the "fairness" of it.


I recall the scant few times I was pressed into service as an investigator for the military. The 2 major ones - 1 was a somewhat famous incident (in the aftermath of a particularly damaging storm affecting SE Louisiana and Mississippi, if you catch my drift), at least at the time, and the other is a complete unknown in the wilds of the Sunni triangle.

The more famous of the 2 - I had a whistleblower, so I actually knew, more or less, exactly what had happened. I was going to lead with the, "I can't help you if you don't tell me the truth" - then I was going to follow with the, "We know all. Make it easy on yourself" - then move to the fear up.

I hadn't had any sleep. I was hoping these jackholes would just clam up and ask for lawyers, like anyone who'd see a single cop show would do - but, oh no, they broke under the "I can't help if you don't tell me the truth" - and tried to blame the other. I ended up pulling a 36-hour shift, and again when I had to testify (I was on night shift and my boss was a 100%, certified a-hole).

The other involved some unaccounted for CDS at a clinic. All of the personnel with access passed the urinalysis and their quarters were searched to no avail. They all seemed like clean cut, All American kids. After multiple interviews over the course of about 2 weeks I concluded that, most likely, someone assembled a "go" bag of medication - they inherited a locker of medication that was unsecured and not signed for. This was only discovered when there was a formal audit and inventory and someone spilled the beans about the "other" locker. As the shite had hit the fan, whoever had assembled it either ditched it then or it was long gone. The only other alternative was that they had sold it, because they were all clean, from a drug sense.

So, I had no criminal case to make because I had no evidence.

The evidence is everything, from a prosecution standpoint.