The Monterey County Sheriff arrested an 85-year-old man for the murders of George Smith and his mother-in-law, Eva Thompson, in 1991. The murders happened in the commission of a burglary.
A $50,000 reward was offered in 1991 by Citizens Against Homicide. The nonprofit’s co-founder responded to the arrest: “When you look at these types of cold cases, it’s really only two things that led to arrests. It’s either deathbed confessions or DNA.”
The Michigan State lab and the FBI continue to slow walk the DNA evidence in Kristine’s case. It’s been 47 years. What’s 5 more? The rest of the evidence has apparently been given up as worthless, given the failures in collection, handling and storage. Epic failures, even long pre-DNA, especially in a case of this magnitude.
And a deathbed confession in the child killer case? Yeah, right. I just cannot picture a family member of this type of a criminal taking the information to police. Or, frankly, the police even taking it seriously. A family member finding some incriminating evidence in the deceased’s home or safe deposit box and handing it over? It would be incinerated and never spoken of again. Because that’s how people like that roll. See, e.g., Busch, H. Lee.
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