Betsy Shepard

I just know that that case can't be touched.

Those red flags are another reason Rathbun and others just can't get behind the party line.

As my father would say, God bless him, there's something rotten in the woodpile and it stinks and I can smell it.

And that brings us back to the poop mushroom.

It might thrive in darkness, but to me, that's not an ideal environment for policing.

I mean, the whole concept behind law enforcement is that watchful eyes deter crime, right?

But who is watching the police?

There's very little oversight of law enforcement agencies, and it's hard to hold them accountable since they control the collection and release of information about internal problems.

the philosophy of the Sheriff's Department is to hide it.

And the philosophy of government, in a lot of respects, is that way now with the terrible way they handle public records requests and stuff.

They just basically stonewall you.

They give you the middle finger if you're asking for something that the public has a right to know.

While I'm in charge of sheriff's intelligence, they're fucking lying to me about what they're doing at Homicide to shut this thing up.

They don't want me involved in it.

Imagine.

You guys have stumbled into a cluster of shit.

Do you have any advice for us while looking into this disappearance?

I wouldn't do it alone.

In the event somebody did decide that you were getting too close to something, you will not be found killed.

You will simply disappear.