Dave Mack

I would agree with that.

One key to seeing, especially once it starts going down the more suspicious line, you want to preserve everything.

So whether it's a homicide or a missing person or a kidnapping, one way in, one way out.

you you set that up as the the first deputy on scene to preserve all that evidence all of these things should have been done um especially once it hit the suspicious nature um if the flower pots were used to prop a door open they absolutely better have been taken as evidence

They should not have been left behind.

They should be taken.

They should be in the evidence location right now.

You'll be able to get any potential DNA off of that.

Who knows how they might have just used their foot, but that's something that's vital to the investigation.

You don't want to leave that behind.

I hope that they did.

Not knowing, a rookie cop would have taken those.

That's all I can really say about it.

And if they didn't, that was a failure in the investigation as well.

Yeah, I think it adds credibility that at least two of the ransom notes are considered to be authentic or there's a high confidence in their authenticity.

And the question remains, which of those notes

Which media outlets were they sent to or were they sent directly to the family?

That we don't know.

But all of these things in totality, the FBI's dissecting these leads credibility that they do believe that these notes were authentic.

Not much of a fight at all.