...Damn that Michael Jackson.......LOLWhere are the kids from Idaho?
Where are the kids from Idaho?
Has anyone heard anything new about the missing kids from Idaho? They seem to have dropped off the news headlines ...Damn that Michael Jackson.......LOL
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Where are the kids from Idaho?
Tombstone lives in the area, i emailed your post to him. i have also been wondering about them.
Where are the kids from Idaho?
mominiowa wrote: Has anyone heard anything new about the missing kids from Idaho? They seem to have dropped off the news headlines ...Damn that Michael Jackson.......LOL
No news! I see that Fox and CNN are now saturation covering the Aruba case.
Here is the latest as of yesterday. The mystery continues:
A month later: No killer, no children
Posted: Thursday, Jun 16, 2005 - 06:46:59 am PDT
By DAVE TURNER CDA Press
Staff writer
Nearly 1,900 tips have been given to officials so far
COEUR d'ALENE -- In spite of a lack of news reports from the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department, Sheriff Rocky Watson on Wednesday said investigators continue to work leads and interview -- and in some cases re-interview -- those who might know something about the month-old Wolf Lodge triple homicide.
"It's just dogging leads," Watson said. "It's a very active case with a lot of solid leads."
Early the evening of May 16, deputies found the bodies of Brenda Kay Groene, 40, her son, Slade Groene, 13, and live-in boyfriend, Mark Edward McKenzie, 37, bound with plastic zip ties and bludgeoned to death at their Frontage Road home near Wolf Lodge Bay.
Authorities continue to hope Brenda Groene's two youngsters are still alive.
For 31 days, sheriff's detectives, Idaho State police investigators and special agents from the FBI have collected forensic evidence, searched the grounds surrounding the home and sorted through 800 tons of garbage.
But the biggest job so far is sorting through the nearly 1,900 telephone tips called into the sheriff's office.
So far, Watson said some 700 interviews have been completed in the case, with another 400 people on the list left to go.
"There's a lot of firm leads in this case," Watson said. "We just can't share them with you."
It's like that with most of the information reporters are asking sheriff's officials for.
One often-asked question is when the killings took place and when Brenda Groene's two missing children, Dylan, 9 and Shasta, 8 were abducted.
The family was last seen alive Sunday afternoon, the day before the three bodies were found.
Kootenai County Coroner Robert West refuses to narrow the time down any closer than that.
Watson told a reporter that even if he knew the time of death, "I would not give it to you."
Investigators are working the case close to their vest partly, Watson said, to withhold information to weed out any potential false confessors from any true suspects.
"To me, that's one of the key things that if someone came in and said 'I did it' or had personal knowledge of the case," Watson said. "Why would I give anybody that much more information (to formulate a false confession)?"
He said while nobody has come forward with a confession -- false or otherwise -- other callers have phoned in tips, claiming to have "personal knowledge" of the killings.
"If they do, we need to know it," he said.
Watson said there's been confusion that the number of FBI agents -- which boosted the amount of investigators to 80 at its peak -- was dwindling.
Watson said FBI crews work in teams to perform specific tasks. Three teams of 10 were called in to sift through the Fighting Creek landfill. Other teams conducted document searches, and others are called in to perform other tasks.
"When we have a project, they send us a team," he said. "When the specialized tasks are done, they go home."
He said FBI agents are paired with local investigators. Fresh investigators from different areas come in and replace those who have worked the case, nearly to exhaustion.
"We burn them out fast," he said. "We're working long hours."
At its peak, Watson said the investigation was costing the FBI $50,000 per day.
Kootenai County has not spent that much money, thanks to hundreds of hours turned in by volunteers.
But where the sheriff's department is hurting is in its overtime budget, which Watson said is now depleted.
"That's our biggest commitment to this," he said.
Watson said the latest figures place overtime hours at 400 for the case.
He said no new forensic or fingerprint reports have come back from testing at the FBI crime lab in Virginia.
But Watson said while forensics are important, "our strongest leads are the phone tips, not the scientific."
Watson said even though an interviewed individual might have been cleared, that doesn't mean they have fallen off investigators' lists.
"We take what they say at face value," he said.
But if information develops later that one of the people interviewed was not truthful, they are given a second, and even third look.
"When you start catching people in lies and contradiction on an important issue, you bring them back for re-interviews," Watson said. "That's when the case starts to develop, which gives us a direction."
...Damn that Michael Jackson.......LOLNo news! I see that Fox and CNN are now saturation covering the Aruba case.
Here is the latest as of yesterday. The mystery continues:
A month later: No killer, no children
Posted: Thursday, Jun 16, 2005 - 06:46:59 am PDT
By DAVE TURNER CDA Press
Staff writer
Nearly 1,900 tips have been given to officials so far
COEUR d'ALENE -- In spite of a lack of news reports from the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department, Sheriff Rocky Watson on Wednesday said investigators continue to work leads and interview -- and in some cases re-interview -- those who might know something about the month-old Wolf Lodge triple homicide.
"It's just dogging leads," Watson said. "It's a very active case with a lot of solid leads."
Early the evening of May 16, deputies found the bodies of Brenda Kay Groene, 40, her son, Slade Groene, 13, and live-in boyfriend, Mark Edward McKenzie, 37, bound with plastic zip ties and bludgeoned to death at their Frontage Road home near Wolf Lodge Bay.
Authorities continue to hope Brenda Groene's two youngsters are still alive.
For 31 days, sheriff's detectives, Idaho State police investigators and special agents from the FBI have collected forensic evidence, searched the grounds surrounding the home and sorted through 800 tons of garbage.
But the biggest job so far is sorting through the nearly 1,900 telephone tips called into the sheriff's office.
So far, Watson said some 700 interviews have been completed in the case, with another 400 people on the list left to go.
"There's a lot of firm leads in this case," Watson said. "We just can't share them with you."
It's like that with most of the information reporters are asking sheriff's officials for.
One often-asked question is when the killings took place and when Brenda Groene's two missing children, Dylan, 9 and Shasta, 8 were abducted.
The family was last seen alive Sunday afternoon, the day before the three bodies were found.
Kootenai County Coroner Robert West refuses to narrow the time down any closer than that.
Watson told a reporter that even if he knew the time of death, "I would not give it to you."
Investigators are working the case close to their vest partly, Watson said, to withhold information to weed out any potential false confessors from any true suspects.
"To me, that's one of the key things that if someone came in and said 'I did it' or had personal knowledge of the case," Watson said. "Why would I give anybody that much more information (to formulate a false confession)?"
He said while nobody has come forward with a confession -- false or otherwise -- other callers have phoned in tips, claiming to have "personal knowledge" of the killings.
"If they do, we need to know it," he said.
Watson said there's been confusion that the number of FBI agents -- which boosted the amount of investigators to 80 at its peak -- was dwindling.
Watson said FBI crews work in teams to perform specific tasks. Three teams of 10 were called in to sift through the Fighting Creek landfill. Other teams conducted document searches, and others are called in to perform other tasks.
"When we have a project, they send us a team," he said. "When the specialized tasks are done, they go home."
He said FBI agents are paired with local investigators. Fresh investigators from different areas come in and replace those who have worked the case, nearly to exhaustion.
"We burn them out fast," he said. "We're working long hours."
At its peak, Watson said the investigation was costing the FBI $50,000 per day.
Kootenai County has not spent that much money, thanks to hundreds of hours turned in by volunteers.
But where the sheriff's department is hurting is in its overtime budget, which Watson said is now depleted.
"That's our biggest commitment to this," he said.
Watson said the latest figures place overtime hours at 400 for the case.
He said no new forensic or fingerprint reports have come back from testing at the FBI crime lab in Virginia.
But Watson said while forensics are important, "our strongest leads are the phone tips, not the scientific."
Watson said even though an interviewed individual might have been cleared, that doesn't mean they have fallen off investigators' lists.
"We take what they say at face value," he said.
But if information develops later that one of the people interviewed was not truthful, they are given a second, and even third look.
"When you start catching people in lies and contradiction on an important issue, you bring them back for re-interviews," Watson said. "That's when the case starts to develop, which gives us a direction."
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