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onethatcares

(16,163 posts)
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 05:12 PM Sep 2021

The sherriff in Florida is

spending an awful lot of tax dollars to find ONE man that killed a girl. Ya got 40 FBI agents, DEP, DNR, State Police, and a myriad of other alphabet agencies out looking for him.

Even if he's in the reserve, in the everglades, in Miami or somewhere in the states, he will be found and I say rather quickly.

If he's driving, he has to get gas, if he's driving, there are cameras everywhere, if he's driving, he has to eat, Or he has an accomplice.

He's not a survivalist by any stretch of the imagination and if his parents helped him get away.....well say good by to all you own assholes.

Thoughts?

and I am not making light of Gabriels' death in anyway, shape or form.

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The sherriff in Florida is (Original Post) onethatcares Sep 2021 OP
Meanwhile the cases of missing & murdered Indigenous women dflprincess Sep 2021 #1
#MMIW Ghost of Tom Joad Sep 2021 #15
People keep posting this, and it's true. Treefrog Sep 2021 #16
Easy enough to find: Bettie Sep 2021 #19
Oh I know. Treefrog Sep 2021 #20
Last seen in a swamp snowybirdie Sep 2021 #2
Gator bait. * Jack from Charlotte Sep 2021 #10
Who last saw him in a swamp? nt. Mariana Sep 2021 #24
He drove there snowybirdie Sep 2021 #25
As soon as it became a multi-state investigation, the FBI got involved. When the FBI gets involved hlthe2b Sep 2021 #3
Thank you bobnicewander Sep 2021 #8
They can't just let a murderer be on the loose without expending boston bean Sep 2021 #22
I don't think it's the law enforcement involvment as much as it is the media attention. dflprincess Sep 2021 #23
It could be argued GusBob Sep 2021 #4
Homicide, every murder is a homicide, but not every homicide is a murder, juries decide that Shanti Shanti Shanti Sep 2021 #21
Look at the front page of Fox News and you'll understand why budkin Sep 2021 #5
my post relates to the fact onethatcares Sep 2021 #6
That fleeing into the swamp thing is a fake lead GusBob Sep 2021 #9
Nope, debunked, all the so-called trail cams reported are not him Shanti Shanti Shanti Sep 2021 #11
My money is on the mosquitos. dameatball Sep 2021 #13
Where's Carl Hiaasen when we need him? jls4561 Sep 2021 #18
The villain, blinded and weakened by mosquitos, wanders into a roadway and is killed by dameatball Sep 2021 #27
They wouldn't be spending that if they surveilled him in the first place. gldstwmn Sep 2021 #7
No crime was committed then, even now he hasn't been named as a suspect, just "a person of interest" Shanti Shanti Shanti Sep 2021 #26
I can think of three possible scenarios: Xolodno Sep 2021 #12
Scenario B Crazyleftie Sep 2021 #14
I thought it was a Mustang, but yeah, that made no sense at all. Treefrog Sep 2021 #17
If he had a brain gojoe12 Sep 2021 #28

dflprincess

(28,072 posts)
1. Meanwhile the cases of missing & murdered Indigenous women
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 05:18 PM
Sep 2021

go ignored and unsolved by local and Federal law enforcement.

 

Treefrog

(4,170 posts)
16. People keep posting this, and it's true.
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 07:48 PM
Sep 2021

But I’ve yet to see someone post a name, pic, or other info.

snowybirdie

(5,219 posts)
25. He drove there
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 09:27 PM
Sep 2021

last Tuesday. Wednesday, his parents picked up his car in the parking lot of the swamp recreation area and drove it back to his house. They didn't tell police for several days.

hlthe2b

(102,141 posts)
3. As soon as it became a multi-state investigation, the FBI got involved. When the FBI gets involved
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 05:19 PM
Sep 2021

local police and sheriff's departments in ALL of the potentially relevant locales likewise get involved. This kind of LEO "metastasis" of those involved in a murder case with a suspect missing is not unusual as soon as it becomes a Federal matter. That would be true of any sheriff department involved as the primary law enforcement jurisdiction.

I'd like to see more murders solved and solved quickly. And the more time that goes by, the less of a chance they will. Talk with any department about their "cold cases."

Do I want the many unsolved cases of missing or murdered (especially women of color) to get the same treatment and attention? You are damned right, I do.

boston bean

(36,219 posts)
22. They can't just let a murderer be on the loose without expending
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 08:22 PM
Sep 2021

the resources. People now just want authorities to stop looking for him because his victim is a young white attractive woman not an indigenous woman?

These answers we are getting to these valid issues are making no sense. Each individual deserves this attention is the answer.

Remember when Versace was murdered? His killer got this kind of attention.

dflprincess

(28,072 posts)
23. I don't think it's the law enforcement involvment as much as it is the media attention.
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 09:08 PM
Sep 2021

It does seem that young, pretty, white women are the only ones that get this sort of attention.

And the media attention does keep the pressure on law enforcement.



GusBob

(7,286 posts)
4. It could be argued
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 05:25 PM
Sep 2021

1. they are doing their job, they have a murder to solve

2. that a desperate fugitive murderer who flees across state lines is a great risk to other people

 

Shanti Shanti Shanti

(12,047 posts)
21. Homicide, every murder is a homicide, but not every homicide is a murder, juries decide that
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 08:04 PM
Sep 2021

Saw that on a crime show, coroners don't call it murder, that's decided in court

onethatcares

(16,163 posts)
6. my post relates to the fact
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 05:27 PM
Sep 2021

that he is not a "survivalist" in any way, shape or form.If he's in the swamp, either the gators, the pythons, a rattlesnake, or the mosquitos will either force him to come out or he'll be a happy buzzard thanksgiving. I live up the coast from North Port and trust me, you'd have to be nucking futz to spend a day out in a "reserve" around here without complete netting, no sweating, a fire to keep the skeeters away, and that's just the first hour.

I would like to see him caught, hell yes,.

but if he's not in the swamp someone had to be or has to be helping him stay out of sight. I think that may be aiding and abetting, or accomplice after the fact.

It's best to concentrate forces where the going is easy for him. Swamp hammocks aren't.

GusBob

(7,286 posts)
9. That fleeing into the swamp thing is a fake lead
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 05:43 PM
Sep 2021

I think they got a trail cam pic of him up in the panhandle yesterday am

jls4561

(1,253 posts)
18. Where's Carl Hiaasen when we need him?
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 07:53 PM
Sep 2021

In his books, the good guys always win and the swamp critters always get a meal.

dameatball

(7,395 posts)
27. The villain, blinded and weakened by mosquitos, wanders into a roadway and is killed by
Wed Sep 22, 2021, 10:05 AM
Sep 2021

Shriners on mini-motorcycles as Skink watches from behind the palmettos.

gldstwmn

(4,575 posts)
7. They wouldn't be spending that if they surveilled him in the first place.
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 05:31 PM
Sep 2021

Someone said his parents have friends on the police department.

 

Shanti Shanti Shanti

(12,047 posts)
26. No crime was committed then, even now he hasn't been named as a suspect, just "a person of interest"
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 10:45 PM
Sep 2021

He's been on the loose for almost a month now, he may never be found, a mystery within a mystery, no wonder its grabbed the attention of so many.

A real life mystery crime drama being played out over social media too, thats been crucial.

Xolodno

(6,384 posts)
12. I can think of three possible scenarios:
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 06:04 PM
Sep 2021

Scenario A:

1. He was gator meat and now gator shit.
2. He's being digested by a python.
3. Buzzard meat and now buzzard shit.

Scenario B:

Him being there was all a ruse and is now south of the border.


Scenario C:

Still around, hiding somewhere hoping this will all blow over somehow.

Crazyleftie

(458 posts)
14. Scenario B
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 06:34 PM
Sep 2021

his parents set up the ruse of him trying to hide in the swamp....placing his truck there is tooo obvious

 

Treefrog

(4,170 posts)
17. I thought it was a Mustang, but yeah, that made no sense at all.
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 07:50 PM
Sep 2021

How’s he going to drive it back with no keys? Did they leave them in the vehicle? No way.

 

gojoe12

(92 posts)
28. If he had a brain
Wed Sep 22, 2021, 10:12 AM
Sep 2021

he’d be out of the country. He had a week on the run with no one looking for him. Why would he still be in the country. Where’s Agatha Christie when you need her

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