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Blaine Alexander

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1700 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The case file he got from police was thin.

As far as he could tell, no detective had even shown up at the scene.

The entire investigation took less than an hour.

From the time the call came in until the last call to the radio operator saying they were clearing the scene.

And processing a scene like that should typically take... Hours.

Lee spoke to one of the first officers on the scene to find out what happened.

Turns out he was brand new to the force.

That scene had been his first time responding to a death call.

He explained to me that, you know,

He'd never seen a dead body?

So he walks into that, having never seen a dead body, fresh out of police academy.

As for the more experienced officers... I'm not no CSI kind of person or nothing like that, but... Lee learned they didn't do much more.

Here's Lee talking to one of them.

No one ever mentioned or discussed or considered, to your knowledge, that this could be something other than a suicide, did they?

The coroner never ordered an autopsy, and Susan had the body cremated within 24 hours.

The coroner's role is especially frustrating to Jake's family because Rachel had pleaded with him at the scene.

I said over and over, are you sure my dad did this?

Are you sure my dad did this?

Are you sure my dad did this?