Julia Cowley

So I want to make that like some some people you'll hear they've done everything.

I have not.

And I try to like, I don't remember a situation like that.

And so it's hard for me to say, what would I do necessarily in that case or who's responsible or, but you're right.

If there's a family and they want to make a statement, we can't stop them.

We can advise or we could advise like as a person at BAU, we would maybe say, and I'm not saying this about this case particularly, but let's say we're talking about a case and we don't think there should be communication.

We would just tell BAU,

whoever we're working with or advising that we don't think a statement should be made and they can tell the family or whoever, we don't think you should make a statement, but if they decide to do that, then we can't stop them.

And so there's kind of these layers of communication because as an FBI person,

Profiler, we're not in charge of the investigation.

We're only advising people who are working the investigation.

And even they don't always have control over everything.

We're just saying, well, this is probably the best way forward based on what we're seeing at this point.

And that's all that we can do.

But it's a good point to say we don't know really anything about how those statements came to be made.

I don't think we can assume anything about what's going on in the investigation.

I mean, yes.

So I don't think you could just assume, oh, there's a problem because they're trying this.

I mean, we, we just, we don't know.

And, you know, I like to give law enforcement a wide berth and I've never had the kind of pressure on me working a case.