Live Special: Making Sense of the Chaos
September 22, 2021
LIVE EVENT
This has been an extraordinary week of true crime news and case updates! Our crimeHQ moderator and host Kelly McLear sat down with retired U.S. Marshal Art Roderick, East Idaho News Station Director Nate Eaton, and East Idaho News' Andrea Olsen to go over recent events and field questions from the crimeHQ community.
Of course on the top of everyone's minds right now are the fast-moving developments in the homicide of Gabby Petito. As of the time of the event and this writing, person of interest Brian Laundrie is in the wind and the subject of a national manhunt.
Roderick mentioned that he believes that the authorities should have had Laundrie under surveillance, since he's a person of interest in Petito's disappearance, and then homicide. And as Roderick said, "as we all know, a 'person of interest' is just another name for a suspect."
The experts and attendees seemed to be on the same page that law enforcement hadn't done all they could have to surveil the Laundries, and suspect that the lack of quick action might have afforded Brian's parents time and opportunity to help him leave the area. Roderick pointed out that if that is what happened, Brian's parents could be charged with aiding and abetting if they helped their son hide or flee from law enforcement.
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